TRADE Secretary Ramon Lopez “We are ready to initiate an online application, One Form, One Number, One Portal for business registration”

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is launching Project One which is designed to develop solutions to improve business registration in the Philippines under the recently approved Republic Act 11032 known as the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Service Delivery Act of 2018.

According to the DTI’s Industry-Competitiveness Bureau, Project One aims to enhance ease of doing business by streamlining the business registration process in the country, one that is focused on creating a pleasant customer experience (easy, not cumbersome nor confusing), addresses bureaucratic singularity (whole of government, one door policy) and promotes governance (data sharing, data accuracy, access to data, privacy issues).

DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez commented, “Project One is the perfect start as the Anti- Red Tape Authority (ARTA) carries the torch of initiating the GovTech revolution in the Philippines. With the passage of the Ease of Doing Business and Efficient Government Delivery Services Act, DTI’s efforts at pursuing reforms will be further strengthened. The law mandates all government agencies including LGUs to automate business registration procedures, and we are glad that it will be the first time that our government will use the Design Sprints, as innovation.”

New Zealand-based Creative HQ won the bid to support the country’s efforts to significantly improve the EODB rankings of the Philippines and general ease of doing business for business owners, entrepreneurs, and investors. New Zealand presents an attractive partner to the Philippines as the country ranks 1st in the World Bank Doing Business survey and the Starting a Business indicator of the WB DB 2018 survey.

Project One shall make use of a modern innovation format (“Design Sprints workshops,” a method developed by Google Ventures to solve specific business problems and validate potential solutions in just five days.) The three workshops shall cover the following:

Design Sprint 1 (July 23 – 27, 2018): Creation of a “Wikipedia” of LGU registration process. DILG and DICT to collate and publish the most up to date processes for LGUs in one place. This will increase inter-agency collaboration, and provide highly useful information to business and investors, and increase transparency of LGU related information online. This concept follows the desire expressed by the Philippine Government to create “one portal” for all business-related information held by Government.

Design Sprint 2 (September 3-7, 2018): Develop the implementation framework for a Philippine Business Number to provide a single, unique identifier that can be used by businesses when transacting with any

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