Cotabato City (January 22, 2018) – The Regional
Planning and Development Office (RPDO-ARMM) of the Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM) spearheaded a three-day Bangsamoro Datathon held in this city
from January 8 to 10.
The
Bangsamoro Datathon (data + marathon) is a series of support processes in
service of the transition from the ARMM to Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in
Muslim Mindanao. The exercise covered open data, open street mapping, and
benchmark data.
The
project was aimed at:
consolidating
and evaluating available administrative, statistical, and framework geospatial
data of the ARMM and existing development plans and studies;
comprehensive
data inventory and consolidation required to build a baseline for the shift
from the ARMM to the Bangsamoro Transition Authority this year;
focus
on development data, not human resource data (assets, liabilities, and
personnel);
train
analysts and other officers of the ARMM regional government and the incoming
Bangsamoro Transition Authority on basic geospatial analysis; and
encourage
the practice of open data in the context of open governance in the Bangsamoro.
The
initial dataset was for Marawi City and Lanao del Sur for the first quarter of
2018. Later, the ARMM Regional Government worked with its different line
agencies to also try updating the Regional Physical Framework Plan and the five
Provincial Development and Physical Framework Plans in preparation for the
transition to the incoming new Bangsamoro government.
During
the three-day activity, an overview and inventory of all the data, place-based
analysis, and geographical data generation and cleaning were conducted. “This
project marks the Bangsamoro as the first region in the Philippines to have an
open geospatial and statistical portal for development planning and
programming,” Baintan Adil-Ampatuan, RPDO-ARMM executive director, said.
The
datathon was successfully conducted with the support of all ARMM line agencies,
provincial governments of Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao, Office of the
Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, National Economic and Development
Authority, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, and the
technical working staff of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission.
It was
financed by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office and The Asia Foundation. (By
JONG CADION with Bureau of Public Information PR and photos)
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