Internet cafés to assist DTI

By Elaine Ruzul S. Ramos - Manila Standard

Operators of Internet cafés in Metro Manila have offered their outlets as venues for registration of business names.

The Department of Trade and Industry said Internet cafés in Metro Manila can assist business clients in using DTI’s online business name registration service, the WeBNRS.

The Internet Café Association of the Philippines is interested to start it in Metro Manila.

DTI Secretary Peter Favila said the DTI has started training personnel from Internet cafés in assisting clients fill out the online forms.

“This is one way of promoting e-governance, that is making government service more accessible to the public through the use of the Internet, and we would like to thank this business sector in helping provide a speedier and accessible government processing procedure using their facilities and their manpower,” Favila said.

The tie-up with Internet café operators began as a pilot project in DTI provincial office in Rizal. Because of its successful implementation in the province, the DTI decided to replicate the project in Metro Manila