Development of an Information-Based Dashboard: Automation of Barangay Information Profiling System (BIPS) for Decision Support towards e-Governance

The need to address societal issues of every community is a salient aspect that demands attention from the people in authority. These are important responsibilities of every barangay and its official in the Philippines. Profiling each household in the community using information and communication technology could achieve good governance through E-government as its core. Once profile data is aggregated, essential information could provide statistics in labor and employment, family income and expenditures, demography by (population) and (age), water and sanitation, type of housing and education. The focus is based on the profiling of Zone 42 and adding other facets as mentioned above was initiated, with the idea that educational institution around the barangay can help towards the areas included. This paper intends to aid barangay official in budget allocation and decision making in their respective governed area with the use of Barangay Information Profiling System (BIPS). Building an Information-Based Dashboard was initiated last 2016 and assessed by IT expert, was given readiness for beta launch to its target users. The functionality criteria were given a mean score of 4.47, which means that the respondents agreed that the system sequence of operation is easy to understand, and the result of their queries is correct and accurate. The system testing had a favorable result with a mean of 4.50 which means that the system passed the standard of completing, processing of a request, response time and the usage of computer resources for all of its function.