“TEAM ANATA”, a mix of advocates and Computer Science and IT Students, presents and discusses how they used data to identify key issues in HIV/AIDS in the Philippines, its urgency, and comes up with data-backed recommendations for government budgeting for HIV-related kits, trainings, and anti-retro-viral drugs.
This is Team Anata’s presentation at the Datathon2020: Evidence-Based Lobby and Advocacy competition and workshop, held at Bicol University College of Science, February 22-23, 2020.
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Looking at the Number of Men and Women of Reproductive Age Reached With Unmet Needs for Family Planning, Referred, and Served
The presentation of Team DatAvengers for the Datathon2020: Evidence-Based Lobby and Advocacy with Data Analytics, on February 22-23, 2020 held at Bicol University CSIT.
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This report is made in support to the international open data movement, and to generate insights to help optimize the procurement process of procurement entities. For this report, State University Data is used, although the method is applicable to all procuring entities in general.
Please note that Layertech is not giving any conclusive statements about the agencies and organizations mentioned in this report. We highly encourage that additional research and validation be conducted when using the information stated in this report.
This report is a use-case created under the Open Contracting Grant of Hivos. The views and insights in this document do not necessarily reflect those of Hivos.
Kindly take time to read the notes, recommendations, scope and delimitation mentioned in this report.
This is document is under CC3 License. This is produced by Layertech. Please do not use the information without proper credit and/or Link to our website. For more information, comments and suggestions, please contact learning@layertechlab.com or visit www.OCDEX.tech
The Annex C of the 2016 Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Government Procurement Reform Act (GPRA) Defines the Minimum, Maximum, and Recommended Operational Timeline for each step of the procurement process.
Below are visual timelines for the procurement of Goods and Services, Infrastructure Projects, and Consulting Services.
Prescribed Procurement Timeline for Goods and Services Prescribed Procurement Timeline for Consulting Services Prescribed Procurement Timeline for Infrastructure Projects
For more details, please refer to the 2016 Implementing Rules and Regulations of the GPRA LAW found HERE.
Layertech Labs led the Procurement Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Workshop for Business Owners (and Bankers) in Albay.
Businesses were introduced WHERE to get official Philippine procurement data, HOW to process the data with both technical and non-technical tools, HOW to spot malicious/exaggerated graphs and data, as well as a short introduction how to use procurement business intelligence to inform business decisions and bidding strategies.
Businesses in Albay, some are owners, and C-executives themselves, attended the hands-on workshop at The Oriental Hotel Legazpi, Albay, Philippines.
At the end of the workshop, the participants shared their outputs and insights on Philippine Procurement, and how they can use Business Intelligence from PhilGEPS data to influence their Bidding Strategies.
The workshop was made possible thanks to Hivos, under the Open Contracting Programme, and the Albay Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
25 students from Bicol University College of Science – Computer Science and IT Department, and students from Southern Luzon Technological College Foundation, Inc., joined the two-day Datathon on September 4-5, 2019 at Bicol University College of Science Laboratory. The event is facilitated by Layertech Labs, with the help of Bicol University CS- CSIT and SLTCFI, supported by Hivos.
In 10 hours, students learned basics of the R Environment, Basic Data Scraping and Data Analytics techniques. The students were made to form teams of 3 or 4, with a procuring entity of their choice. Using R, the students were able to scrape official Philippine procurement data from Philippine Government E-Procurement System (PhilGEPS), clean and standardize the datasets, before visualizing them into graphs.
At the end of theDatathon, the teams presented their findings before a panel of judges from: Department of ICT Luzon Cluster 3, Bicol University CS-CSIT, SLTCFI, and Gayon Bicol Civil Society Organization.
The judges declared the final winner, team “Paste Copy”, for analyzing Department of Education Region 5’s procurement efficiency, focusing on procurement of school supplies in the region’s public schools.
This report is made in
support to the international open data movement, and to generate business
insights from open procurement data to help suppliers be more efficient and
competitive when joining government procurement.
Please note that Layertech is not giving any conclusive
statements about the agencies and organizations mentioned in this report.
We highly encourage that additional research and validation be conducted when
using the information stated in this report.
This report is a use-case
created under the Open Contracting Grant of Hivos. The views and insights in
this document do not necessarily reflect those of Hivos.
Kindly take time to read the notes, recommendations and delimitation mentioned in this report.
This is document is under CC3 License. This is produced by Layertech. Please do not use the information without proper credit and/or Link to our website. For more information, comments and suggestions, please contact learning@layertechlab.com or visit www.OCDEX.tech
PhilGEPS releases Philippine procurement datasets in excel format. These are downloadable in their official PHILGEPS OPEN DATA PORTAL.
Below is a mapping Layertech and Partners in Legazpi made to convert PH-based procurement datasets to OCDS format. This is being used by partner researchers, developers, and students to create localized procurement monitoring tools.
In line with the Open Contracting Initiative, Layertech conducted a free training session on Data Analysis for CSOs (members of the LGBT Community of Bicol Region) on May 22, 2019.
Participants were introduced to basic Data Analysis concepts, and how they can use it to improve their advocacy activities, and monitor quality of goods and service delivery that they receive from government agencies.
Layertech also gave a crash course on how to properly interpret graphs and tables presented in public, to prevent audience from being misled and confused by news and reports that use data and graphs to exaggerate or manipulate perception of research results.
Finally, Layertech gave a hands-on demonstration of the OCDEx.tech portal features, including a sample use-case, on how to monitor government HIV/AIDS-related procurement to ensure that they receive quality goods and services which they will, in turn, give out to grassroots communities.
Layertech also took note of the participants’ feedback, comments, and suggestions on how to improve OCDex.tech, which will be integrated in the next release of the portal.
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Supported by Hivos, Layertech lead a data scraping session using R and R Studio, using official Philippine Procurement Datasets found in Philgeps.gov.ph’s Open Data Portal.
The session attendees were faculty members of Bicol University College of Science IT Department, and faculty and graduating students of Southern Luzon Technological College Foundation, Inc.
While procurement datasets are available in open data formats, the large PhilGEPS datasets still need to be pre-processed, filtered, visualized and analyzed. Only then can researchers, advocates, and concerned citizens draw useful insights to aid them in their advocacy and decision making.
What’s the objective?
Layertech and partners advocate for #DataDrivenGovernance. We aim to encourage researchers to study and innovate on government procurement. For them to do that, they must be equipped with the necessary skills and tools to draw insights from procurement information that is available.
For this first session, the academe was specifically invited because the team also needs to get their insights, comments and suggestions about the training design, in order to improve the next tech training sessions to come.
The team and partners will soon be deploying training sessions for young researchers, students, innovators, and faculty, on various topics such as:
Data Science Data Analytics Data Visualization Python Programming Machine Learning Cybersecurity Data Privacy
What are the results?
For the first training session with R, the participants were able to publish a total of 13 datasets (downloadable HERE, in our Open Data Portal) under various categories such as Health, Local Government, and Education.
The participants also actively presented their outputs and how these cleaned datasets can help increase transparency and efficiency in public procurement in the Philippines.
Want to know more about HOW to filter Philgeps datasets? Here’s a quick, general guide HERE.
Keep on visiting our “References” section for more procurement and data scraping, visualization, and analytics guides!
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