Design and Implementation of a Hybrid Barangay Information Management System

In pursuant to the republic Act No. 6975 by the Department of the Interior and local Government Act of 1990, through the (NBOO) the National Barangay operations Office as mandated to establish and update the master list of Barangays, Barangay officials and Barangay Socio-economic profiles. thus, in compliance thereto the proponents Developed a Hybrid Barangay Information Management System to rapidly gather,encode,store and maintain data of the Barangay which in effect may result to a systematize manner of accumulating and retrieving relevant information that is essential in coming up with informed decisions on various possible local governance issues. As observed, there were a number of problems associated with the current adopted laborious manual methods on a day to day Basis such as, retrieving huge numbers of file Folders of their Constituents Data and this causes delay in the delivery of services and had some inaccuracies in the completion of tasks and so on. Nowadays, with the advent of modern technology it opens wider opportunities for barangay to serve its constituents better through computerization of the documents as it provides such as barangay clearance, certificate of indulgency, letter of recommendation, generate report and others. Motivated by the vision of empowering this self-governing political system digitally, the proponents aimed to determine this advantages and could developed a Hybrid Barangay Information Management System that will hasten the transactions performed and documents provided by the barangays. This system is designed to be accessed only by the authorized users to ensure the integrity of all transactions. It will be designed and implemented using Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 as the front-end while running Microsoft Access Server as the back-end and also it has as embedded responsive Intra web Portal that can be utilized by the barangay functionaries.