Automated Election this incoming 2010-advantage or disadvantage?

As a BSIT student, one must be aware enough of the current issues related with your chosen degree, certainly, new technologies. For a hotter scenario in the country, Automated Election this coming 2010 .

Filipinos nowadays are having doubts in the wisdom of participating in the voting exercise, saying many good candidates win because of shameless cheating in the polls, they may now witness honest elections, be assured that their vote will be counted, that there will be no flying voters, and no dagdag-bawas (adding and subtracting votes) — starting with the 2010 polls.
Recently, on the evening of March 5 the P11.3-billion budget that the Commission on Elections needs to fully automate the May 2010 presidential elections had approved by the Senate.
Consequently, the May 2004 elections were done manually, from the voting to the canvassing of the results. Independent Senator Richard “Dick” Gordon recalls that the process “was slow, tedious, and subject to criticism since the security of the electoral process and its capacity to preserve the sanctity of the ballot and the will of the electorate was put to question.”

(http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleid=447176)

Automated Election System (AES) assures electronic transmission of electoral results from the precinct level to Congress, the various board of canvassers, the parties, the accredited citizens’ arm, and the media. “This prevents wholesale cheating because tampering with the Certificates of Canvass will no longer be possible. The election returns and certificates of canvass transmitted electronically and digitally signed shall be considered as official election results and shall be used as basis for the proclamation of a candidate.”

“Automation also means speed, giving no time for the sore loser to tamper with the ballot. The longer the period between the time that the vote is cast and the time that the winners are announced, the greater the time and opportunity to tamper with the results. This leads to violent elections as losing candidates who feel the stab of every vote counted against him or her, begin to resort to extra-legal means to change the tide of their fate. The psychological effect of impending loss, and the shame of losing face prompt losing candidates to use guns, goons and gold to tamper with the ballot.
The Automation Law, he said, is “more than just an Automation Law. It is a commitment to respecting the right of our people to choose those who will lead them. It is a launching pad for a renewed sense of unity among our countrymen through the assurance that the process through which they choose their leaders is clean, free and credible. Let us be united in trying to bring about transparent, free and clean elections.”
If the Philippine government ever gets down to automating elections in the Philippines, it has a chance to show the rest of the world how to do it. That’s because there’s already a lot of established “wisdom”, and the mistakes of other countries to learn from.

In reference to: http://technogra.ph/20090303/sections/editorial/how-the-philippines-can-in-lead-election-automation/

Here are some of the mistakes associated in automated election:
Problems in Other Countries

Forget about the cost of funding such a project (the COMELEC has asked for P11.3 billion). How can we make the automated system easy to use? Around two years ago in Florida, a poorly designed voting machine led to 13% not casting their vote for their desired representative. The touch-screen interface was inconsistent, leading to confusion and a phenomenon known as “banner blindness”.

In Finland, the lack of clear instructions (and once again, a poorly designed process) led to 232 voters (out of 12,234) not finishing the voting process. These voters failed to notice that they had to “validate” their votes after making their picks.

These numbers may not seem significant. But if you’re running a nationwide election, with millions of votes to process, these errors will increase in scale. Imagine the situation here in the Philippines, as election sore losers and naysayers have yet another reason to keep the new officials from simply getting down to business.

The Missing Ingredient: Designing Machines for the Voter
So why did these two systems, as well as countless others, fail? Based on my research, those managing automated elections always overlook a crucial factor: usability. No election machine designer seems to consider the user experience, or how the average user will react to their device. Or at least, consider the advice of an expert used to anticipating and accommodating these reactions.

The process of marking a paper ballot is straightforward, because it mimics an activity most Filipinos do—writing on a piece of paper. And even then, some people get it wrong; what more if you force people to vote in a way they’re not used to? The majority of election machines fail to take this reality into account properly.

How to Get Things Right

Most systems also lack the benefit of sustained and controlled testing. The real-world conditions of an actual election are hard to simulate through a controlled experiment. Since election systems serve a crucial role, it’s important to get things right. You need to first test them on a small scale, and resolve any issues encountered. Before you can even think of wide-scale implementation, all potential problems—and their solutions—must be clear.

Granted, other countries have implemented testing on a small scale (like in the case of Florida above). But there’s a noticeable lack of learning from the results of these tests. It seems those who implement automated election systems don’t learn from their mistakes.

Ready for 2010?

In short, by looking from the mistakes of other countries, Philippine election officials can learn how to run automated elections properly. Primarily by designing election machines that make sense to the average Filipino voter, and relying on the results of sustained testing for any necessary revisions to the system.

Unfortunately, since the need for testing is crucial—unless you consider chaos on Election Day acceptable—a properly automated election system may not be ready by 2010. Yet no matter how clear the benefits of automated elections are for Philippine politics, it’s more important to get things right the first time. That’s much better than coming out with a system that will provide election automation critics with more bombs.

Moreover, it is cited in Inquirer.net the following possibilities that would happen if an election will be automated:

http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20090315-194313

Many ways to cheat
If we look at the election process, there are many ways to cheat.

1. People in power or with lots of money could buy support from local leaders or directly from voters.No automated system can prevent this.
   
2. In the old days of guns and goons, voters were either coerced to vote for certain candidates or scared away and their ballots used.We thought we had progressed beyond this. Unfortunately, cheating prevailed in 2007 in Maguindanao and other areas.
3. Ballot box stuffing or ballot substitution.With the proposed Comelec Automated Election System, ballots would have to be substituted before these are fed into the counting machine.This is a little more difficult, but the actual production of the fake marked ballots is a lot easier. And it is harder to identify ballots marked by one person.
4. Misreading/mistallying of votes during precinct count.Normally, OMR counting machines can be very accurate. But who can tell if the machine has been programmed for automated and undetected dagdag bawas? Comelec has not done enough to assure the public that this will not happen.
   
5. Substitution of election returns (ER).This may have happened in the 2004 elections in ARMM.We suspect that in Pampanga, Cebu, Iloilo and Bohol, Namfrel and the other parties may have been given fake ERs.An honest, automated system would prevent the substitution of ERs with previously prepared faked ERs. But we can never tell if manipulation is done inside the OMR counting machine.
6. Substitution of ballot box and ER on the way to the municipality.In the automated system, electronic ERs would be sent to the municipal canvassing center through the communication system.How can we be sure that the results transmitted are not changed at the source or at the receiving end?
7. Fraud in the computation of the municipal COC.This is hard to detect if the precinct results are not visible to watchers.In the automated system, we will not see how computations are done in the canvassing server. There is no independent means to cross check what the server generates.I think that contrary to the common belief that delays create opportunities for cheating, some delays are needed for checking and auditing.In an automated election, moving too fast without checks and audits could result in massive cheating.
8. Substitution of Municipal COCs on the way to the province.This could have happened in Muslim Mindanao in 2004.Proponents of automated systems suggest that this would be prevented with secure electronic transmission. There still is the possibility of manipulation within the system.
9. Fraud in the computation of the provincial COC.This could have happened in 2004 and could happen again within the provincial canvassing server.
10. Substitution of COCs on the way to Congress and Comelec.This could have happened in 2004. And even with an automated system, this could still happen.
11. Errors in computation of national total.

Counting machines
The P9.5 billion the Comelec intends to spend on the rental of 80,000 OMR reading machines will not hasten the completion of national election counting. But the use of reading machines could lessen retail cheating in peaceful areas.
However, OMR voting is not a deterrent. For cheaters, OMR voting facilitates the production of ballots.
Hazards and safeguards
Comelec would like us to assume that automation will prevent cheating.
That is not true. Let us make sure that safeguards and audits are instituted.
The OMR system is similar to the classic, paper-based election system, except that:

1. Voters mark candidate of choice instead of writing the name.
2. The OMR ballots are machine-counted instead of being read and tallied.

For those who think that cheating can only take place when human hands are involved, this would look like a fraud-free system.
Comelec's new procedure calls for each voter to physically feed his ballot into the machine.

A picture of the ballot is then taken.

As we pointed out earlier, the voter in some areas may be influenced or forced to feed another ballot into the machine.

Programmed to cheat.

Let us pretend we are in a precinct where law and order prevails, and you are the voter feeding in your ballot.

How can you be sure that the machine will not change one or more of your votes?

How can you be sure that the total votes in the printed ER are truly what the voters in the cluster voted for?

The law provides for testing of the machines prior to Election Day.

If the machines are not stand-alone, how can you be sure that a modified program was not downloaded on Election Day to add votes for certain candidates and subtract from others (electronic dagdag bawas)?

At the end of counting, the original program could be restored.

The Election Law should call for stand-alone machines.

To verify that the OMR machines are counting properly, the two parties and the

Citizens Arm should be allowed to run their test ballots before the start of counting and at the end of counting.

If discrepancies are detected, these should be noted and could be the basis for reverting to a manual count or a protest.
Safeguards

The Comelec proposes to automatically transmit election returns from the 80,000 OMR counting machines to the municipal servers.

While this is the fastest way to do it, it does not guarantee honest elections and does not provide transparency of the election counting process.

If the OMR counting machines can send electronic ERs to the municipal servers through the communication system, someone who knows the system well could change the programs on the machines from a remote and undetected location.

The best way to detect fraud is to create and provide at least seven printed and electronic copies of the ER.

The OMR Counting Machines should not be equipped with any communication capability.

There should be a separate stand-alone PC from where the ERs can be sent to the municipal canvassing/consolidation server as well as to the seven organizations entitled to receive the seven copies of the ER.

The Comelec AES does not provide for visible canvassing or parallel transmission and canvassing.

This will raise concerns about the honesty of the count and would certainly result in a loss of credibility of the results.

The Comelec should provide PCs for the major parties in each municipal tabulation center.

There should also be at least three projectors in each canvassing center.

The projectors would show the statement of vote for the municipality.

Watchers would be able to compare the projected totals on the three computers (Comelec, majority and opposition).

The COC should not be finalized until the discrepancies are resolved.

There are 1,631 cities and municipalities, 80 provinces, 13 regions and two national canvassing centers for a total of 1,736 sets.

Let’s provide 10-percent backup sets. That would be 1,910, let’s say 2,000.

The total cost would only be P360 million.

Cost reduction

One could easily reduce the cost of the OMR Counting Machines by increasing the cluster size per OMR machine to 10 and allowing feeding of ballots into the machines by the BEI after the end of voting.

That would mean savings of at least P4.5 billion, which is more than enough to pay for a transparent and more credible transmission and canvassing system.

Hopefully, wholesale cheating could be lessened.

But let us not expect canvassing for national candidates to be done in three to four days.

In general, it provides efficient way for voting with less hassle. Voters cannot prolong the process of voting and lined up in a crowd. But a thought came across my mind. This could be the cause to worsen political situation. Possibilities for the candidates can hire a computer experts to hack the system and manipulate the entire votes. Unless if the system is fully secured.

But still the decision is in you. You can have your voice. This is a republic country anyway.

Assignment 2 (Due: July 7, 2009, before 01:00pm)

Based on the company's best IS/IT practices, these are mentioned risks of my adopted company.

PHOENIX PETROLEUM PHILIPPINES INC.
Trade Name: Northlane Phoenix Service Station -2

Location: Mamay Road, Damosa, Lanang, Davao City

Opened: July 18, 2007


** the company is using an outsource program.

• therefore it is highly cost.
  

• "mahal man ang program, naa juy i-risk,pero selected lang." -system administrator

• additional budget.

(as part of the class sharing, it was tackled in IS resistance that any implementation of technology would really provide resistance in organization, in my adopted institution, risk in decreasing their clerical staffs was an example. )


** the company who purchased their program knows their database.

• Security risk.Anyway, it is a contacted transaction, there is an agreement between both parties, (ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR)
  

** changes brings resistance.

• technology to people.

• decreased in numbers of selected clerical workers.

** the system administrator had also mentioned ethical issues among their users.

• there some cases in which users are visiting restricted areas online, such as pornographic sites.

• fortunately, this issue had been closed since they put a firewall on their SAP program.Their current system had implemented with a hardware firewall.
  

So much with our conducted interview in PHOENIX PETROLEUM PHILIPPINES INC. with the company's system administrator, these are the only things that are being risked and had been changed with the implementation of their Information System Technology.

HR reflection

“Human beings are the most important, potent and critical, resource of any organization, and yet the least understood and the worst managed of its resources”]

Human Beings are Important.

In negative thoughts brought about by human itself, let us accept the fact that we humans or people are the reasons of destructions, abuses and all to our noble planet earth, yet, we remain the most important and vital resource of any organizational structure existing in the society.

The query concerning whether our world and the society would be better off without human beings around, seems a legitimate one. Human beings are one, merely one, of the many living beings that originated in a long and complicated process of evolution … despite the fact that many genius minds in philosophy and religion tried to explain those theories about strengthening the idea that human beings are the focus and goal of the institutions and of humanity.

Human beings can be considered that amongst living beings, humans enjoy great abilities and capacities, not in the least their developed skills of thinking and of (self-) reflection which provide them with way to order their world and organizations they belong.

Of course, human beings are special and precious. As an aphorism says, “It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.” ~Mariane Moore

Human Beings are potent.

According to Jack Tay, one of the best ways to achieve what we want and desire in life is to learn the techniques on how to manipulate people.

These techniques state how powerful and potential human beings are.

Accordingly, if you want to be promoted in your current job, who will decide that, you will get it? If you are paying attention toward a woman, how to guarantee that she will fall in love back with you?

Influencing and manipulating the people around you, especially those people whose decisions are critical in changing your current situation would absolutely make a distinction in your living.

Human Beings are critical.

Man is critical and so different to any other creature.

I think what tell apart humans from animals is that regardless of how intellectual we are, we people still live by our instincts. Humans have managed through years of evolution to overcome their drives for the benefit of the community and so to be able to judge and suppress, by critical thinking, instincts is what we have that is not harmful to others.

Humans are able to reason which even animals or any other resources in an organization of higher intellect don't do. By this, I mean that you can sit down and comprehend that if you position your hand on a burning fire you will burn yourself animals can't do that. We have this capability of knowing what will happen beforehand, thinking ahead or predictions. You can stand for a reason and present a cause and effect which animals can't do. Animals act things for the reason that it's programmed into them to do so.

But, we all aware that human are the most little understood resource in an organization, why? For such, considering that amongst other creation we are in great superior that we think of mandating the world around us.

That’s why, man as imperfect, and should be more humble. Humility is an issue of accepting and receiving the gift as being human creature having the immense opportunity of dealing the domain society with your capabilities and role of your existence.

Different people have different believes, and so to respect all of this. Be what you are and think of what the best you can do to your organization.

Furthermore, Susan Davis of google search had searched for different people that we used to deal with in an organization.

These are:

*The bullies

*The stealth destroyers

*The "yes" people

*The know-it-alls

*The complainers

*The martyrs

Are you one them? Then think of your future before its too late.

My Local Org.!

Subject: Assignment 1 (Due: June 25, 2009, before 01:00pm)

♥SMART Communications♥





Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART) is the Philippines' leading wireless services provider with 36.9 million subscribers on its GSM network as of end-March 2009.

I had chosen the SMART Communication for they provide an interesting IT servicing for their comsumers..
One of its best feature was their use of wide range services in businesses.

The SMART Business Solutions!
This features a SMART way to help businesses...
♥ MOBILE OFFICE SOLUTIONS

1. Voice Solutions

Every Business Deserves GOLD!

Now it’s easier for your business to go GOLD. With Smart Gold Lite, your employees get a real Smart postpaid plan for just PhP 300 a month*. With just PhP 2 per/minute Smart-to-Smart and Smart-to-Talk 'N Text call rates, it’s the lightest and lowest ever!

NO NEED TO RELOAD

However big or small your business is, you want the lightest call rates and communications costs, but you also want uninterrupted connections. Smart Gold Lite allows staff to call freely on a credit limit that is unrestricted by the plan amount.

*FULL INTER-NETWORK CAPABILITY

You and your staff can still call and text to other networks just as easily and without needing to reload.

*THE LIGHTEST AND LOWEST CALL RATE

Just P2/min Smart-to-Smart and Smart-to-Talk 'N Text.

*NATIONWIDEST COVERAGE

Smart still is the widest and clearest network anywhere in the Philippines at any time.

*SMART GOLD LITE IS FOR EVERYONE

As a SIM-only offer, approval is quicker and easier than ever.

2. Wireless Office Solutions

Netcast is a web-based SMS solution that aims to cater to your organization’s additional communication channel needs through regular and scheduled bulk messaging broadcast, information exchange, feedback and content management.

Bulk Messaging

Allows businesses to broadcast time-sensitive SMS notifications to its targeted, large number of recipients. Module enables companies to automatically and simultaneously deliver information to preferred groups.

- Similar experience as sending a message through cellphone
- Manage your messages via folders
- Ability to schedule message broadcasts

*Text Circles

Sending a message to a select group has never been easier.

This module enables key personnel or group member/s to send a message to the entire group securely via mobile phone. They will receive the message sent by other members as well as reply and send a copy to the rest of the group

- Maximum of 10 members per company
- Alternative means of communication to a select group of users
- All messages are charged to the Netcast account

*Text Helpdesk

Be connected to your clients via SMS. Receive relevant information from external sources and immediately respond. This also enables keyword based response system that releases information to your customers, suppliers, service providers, etc.

- Automated information release
- Maintain healthy exchange ideas
- Integrate with existing database

Benefits

• Alternative to printed materials
• Targeted recipients
• Emergency Broadcast/Announcement Facility
• Personalized Company Name Masking
• Mobility and Convenience
• Best for time-critical messages
• Can easily be integrated with existing system and/or database
• Two level security with dynamic PIN

SMART Bizload is an easily accessible user-friendly web-based prepaid loading portal service that allows you to efficiently load and manage budgeted airtime benefits to your employees' prepaid accounts. With this service, you can easily distribute prepaid load in just a few steps.

This allows you to credit prepaid load in real time to eliminate the need to purchase top-up cards per piece or in bulk which saves time and resource. With the employment of first class log-in system, access to your account is dynamic and secure.

Smart Bizload offers you Batch Loading according to your needs. Crediting of load value can be automated by simply uploading a file and setting the frequency. You can now focus on other equally important tasks and let Smart Bizload take care of your load.

Smart Bizload boasts of other very attractive features that gives you the Smart advantage:

• Access anywhere from a PC with internet connection
• Safe and Secure log-in system for authorized personnel
• Real-time balance inquiry
• Standard reports available for easy monitoring of transactions

Fixed Cellular Service (FCS) is SMART’s corporate offer that provides voice, fax, and data connectivity via GSM and GPRS network for areas without fixed (landline) facilities. The device can also be connected to a PABX to route calls from local phones to mobile numbers and/or serve as back-up connection in case of landline service downtime

Provides telephone, data (internet) and fax services where there are no landline facilities.

• Serves as back-up to existing landline facilities.
• Can be installed almost anywhere with GSM coverage and be easily transferred to another location.

♥ Business Solution Customer support

At SMART, our Business Solutions team is ready to attend to your needs. We provide customer support through the following channels:

1. Relationship Manager

A dedicated Relationship Manager (RM) will be assigned to handle all sales and after-sales concerns. These include inquiries regarding the line subscription, defects and repairs, or any changes related to the corporate subscription.

2. The Corporate Business Group Communal Email

An email address with dedicated CBG personnel, ready and willing to answer any query regarding your SMART Gold Corporate subscriptions. There will be a ready notification of receipt of your query 15 minutes from sending your message. Email us here.

3. Business Hotline

A corporate hotline number 848-8889 or press #888 from your Smart cellphone (toll-free) is available for all corporate subscribers.

4 . Bill Delivery

To ensure on-time receipt of your bills, personal delivery will be arranged to facilitate ease in distribution and settlement of your bills.

for more information, the official website of SMART is open to serve you...

http://smart.com.ph/

◘_◘IS/IT Leadership roles◘_◘

IS/IT LEADERSHIP ROLES:

CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary lines of business. These include Business Solutions & Services, Global Outsourcing Services and the North American Public Sector. CSC's advanced capabilities include systems design and integration, information technology and business process outsourcing, applications software development, Web and application hosting, mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 91,000 employees and reported revenue of $17.3 billion for the 12 months ended Oct. 3, 2008.

☺☺For more information, visit the company's Web site at www.csc.com.

Information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) leadership roles have undergone fundamental changes over the past decade. And according to what I have researched, on 1996 Computer Science Corporation (CSC) has suggested six new IS leadership roles which are required to execute IS’s future agenda: chief architect, change leader, product developer, technology provocateur, coach and chief operating strategist. Below are the descriptions of the Six IS Leadership roles.

1. Chief architect. The chief architect designs future possibilities for the business. The primary work of the chief architect is to design and evolve the IT infrastructure so that it will expand the range of future possibilities for the business, not define specific business
outcomes.

2. Change leader. The essential role of the change leader is to orchestrate all those resources that will be needed to execute the change program.

3. Product developer. The product developer helps define the company’s place in the emerging digital economy.

4. Technology provocateur. The technology provocateur embeds IT into the business strategy. The technology provocateur works with senior business executives to bring IT and realities of the IT marketplace to bear on the formation of strategy for the business.

5. Coach. The coach teaches people to acquire the skill sets they will need for the future. Coaches have to basic responsibilities: teaching people how to learn, so that they can become self-sufficient, and providing team leaders with staff able to do the IT-related work of the business.

6. Chief operating strategist. The chief operating strategist invents the future with senior management. The chief operating strategist is the top IS executive who is focused on the future agenda of the IS organization. The most important, and least understood, parts of the role have to do with the interpretation of new technologies and the IT marketplace, and the bringing of this understanding into the development of the digital business strategy for the organization.

Although these roles produced by the CSC without any scientific approach, many people noticed that they seem very well tailored for scientific investigation into IS leadership roles. People who fill these roles do not necessarily head up new departments or processes, but they exert influence and provide leadership across the organizational structure.

On the methods used to accomplish these functions, for example, Mint berg’s role typology, have been proposed. According to Mint berg (1990), the manager's job can be

Described in terms of various roles:

1. Informational Roles. By virtue of interpersonal contacts, both with subordinates and

With a network of contacts, the manager emerges as the nerve center of the organizational unit. The manager may not know everything but typically knows more than subordinates do. Processing information is a key part of the manager's job. As monitor, the manager is perpetually scanning the environment for information, interrogating liaison contacts and subordinates, and receiving unsolicited information, much of it as a result of the network of personal contacts. As a disseminator, the manager passes some privileged information directly to subordinates, who would otherwise have no access to it. As spokes person, the manager sends some information to people outside the unit.

2. Decisional Roles. Information is not an end in itself; it is the basic input to decision making. The manager plays the major role in a unit's decision-making system. As its formal authority, only the manager can commit the unit to important new courses of action; and as its nerve center, only the manager has full and current information to make the set of decisions that determines the unit's strategy. As entrepreneur, the manager seeks to improve the unit, to adapt it to changing conditions in the environment. As disturbance handler, the manager responds to pressures from situations. As resource al locater, the manager is responsible for deciding who will get what. As negotiator, the manager commits organizational resources in real time.

3. Interpersonal Roles. As figurehead, every manager must perform some ceremonial duties. As leader, managers are responsible for the work of the people of their unit. As liaison, the manager makes contacts outside the vertical chain of command.

☺☺As an aspirant BSIT student through my initiative, I learn to appreciate more about computers and its component that meets specified power-efficiency in people management application as well as power-efficient computing products and adopting policies and practices that increases power efficiency throughout their organizations by scanning and reading those stated leadership roles in IS/IT.☺☺

hOt abOuT my fiRsT dAy???

My first day class……….

What a wonderful day it is! My mind shouted.

Well, it is my new and first day of class in my new world of college life. Yes, new, not to mention my third year in college but it’s my new campus and my new place to reside for again about one school year.

I am an alien in USeP Obrero Campus on that day of June 15, of current year. An immigrant coming from Tagum-Mabini Campus. I am a stranger to any other older students, and a new face to professors.

I felt nervous and thrilled. I don’t know what to expect and how to act normally in a total strange place. I am thankful to have my classmates with me. We are 20 transferees and I am expecting to grow in my new institution.

When m day end up, I sighed, this is where my future begins……….my real life battle.

♥University of Southeastern Philippines.♥

MIS as subject description in BSIT...

A new environment, new campus, new professors and new subjects. A whole brand new atmosphere. I am a transferee, formerly a student of USeP Tagum-mabini Campus but now currently an officially enrolled in USeP Obrero campus taking up Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.

Our course was offered at Tagum campus only for just two years that’s why we are urged to move here in Obrero for it is what is planned before hand. And now were in major adjustment period.

In connection with my enrolled course-BSIT, I have my subject IT313 with description Management Information System (MIS) under the advisory of Dr. Randy Gamboa whom a totally stranger to me.

As blank as an white empty sheet of paper, I have no idea about the nature o my new subjects as well as with my professors. Until such time, Dr Gamboa approached the class. I was actually out of the scene because I weren’t there when he went to the prescribed room for the time was supposedly 10:00-11:30 in the morning but he arrived around 10:30.

Well anyway, I am fortunate enough to be informed by my classmates although were not yet acquainted. Funny but luckily I have this blessed courage to ask them about the left assignments. Then I was lately informed. At least!

Dr. Gamboa ask the class about the subject description which is Management Information System. Folks, if my notion would be asked, it is the term used or given to the matter which focuses with the integration of computer systems and human management with general goal of organization.

Let us try to separate the Management Information from its original clause for the mean time. It had discussed that ther are four related activities for management namely: planning, directional, organizing and controlling. We can have a text clues why we can say management is when someone needs to be manage; meaning you cannot work independently. Thimgs can be managed are processes, procedures and systems.

Consequently, Information system is another aspect. We have Information Technology which is composed of hardware and software which is extended into people ware in the end we can have an equated equation that goes: I.S. (Information System) = hardware + software + people ware.

Therefore, Management Information System or simply MIS can be considered as subset of the overall internal and external controls of a computerized system covering an application of people and technology.

Looking back with the equation of an information technology, it deals with software, hardware and people ware; the first two mentioned can be manage but not the people.

In connection, Management Information System really a prescribed and appropriate subject description for BSIT students in order for them to learn a so-called people management application.

The development and management of information technology tools assists future IT analysts and other related professionals in performing any tasks related to the processing of information.

In general, as an BSIT aspirant student, one must be willing to take all related leanings and beneficial things for Management Information System which is essential to know and study. Go beyond delving deeper.