Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Teofilo Guadiz III is looking forward to a highly efficient and “digitalized” agency in 2024 to be run by employees themselves and not by any information technology provider.
He is batting for an IT system that shall “be able to competently address the needs of the motoring public.”
By 2024, the LTO’s contract with its IT provider would have ended, and was given the assurance that the control of the IT system would be turned over to the agency.
“By then, my dream for the LTO IT system is for it to be run and managed by LTO employees. No more outsiders will be running the system. We ourselves would run and manage the operations,” he said.
He wants to run the LTO the same way it is done at private corporations.
“Having been with the Agency for the past 12 years, I have seen a lot of competent men and women at the LTO so I am confident that we can do it,” he said.
He reported that when he looked at the number of IT experts at its Management Information Division, there were only 28 of them, and he is looking to have the number increased further.
“We need to increase the number of personnel to handle the MID to be able to adequately address the needs of the different regions,” he said.
He vowed to ask for more funding in 2023 to be able to achieve the increase in IT personnel at the MID.
He said there is also a need to increase the number of personnel so that by year 2024, the agency wod be able to run the system on its own.
“This is what I envision for the future of LTO, a digitalized LTO with its own IT system. If there will be slowdowns, which I hope will not happen again, we will only have ourselves to blame,” he cited.
Next year, the LTO chief said, the agency would conduct a planning session, “the first time in the history of the agency for its senior officers.”
He believes that through careful planning, the agency could check what it wants to do in the future, to be followed by a mid-year planning session.
