John Lester S.

Acula
BSIT 4-1N

2. What is PCS?
 The Philippine Computer Society (PCS) is the longest-existing professional association of computing and
information technology professionals in the country. From its special interest groups (SIGs) have spun
off today’s more specialized computing and IT-related organizations, many of which have evolved into
national organizations themselves.
 Established in 1967, the PCS has a long and honored history of growing the development of the ICT
industry and of ICT professionals in the Philippines. The PCS has spearheaded numerous local and
international activities intended to continuously promote, protect, and enhance the ICT profession.
PCS activities have been conducted in an unbroken chain over the years, providing continuing venues
for technology updates and professional development. PCS’s many relevant committees have led
initiatives toward the adoption of and legislation to support the use of quality technology in the
country.

3. UN organization that is in-charge in IT activities

 UN Security Council
4. What is Knowledge Management?
 Knowledge management (KM) is the process of capturing, developing, sharing, and effectively using
organizational knowledge. It refers to a multi-disciplinary approach to achieving organizational
objectives by making the best use of knowledge.
 An established discipline since 1991, KM includes courses taught in the fields of business
administration, information systems, management, library, and information sciences. Other fields may
contribute to KM research, including information and media, computer science, public health, and
public policy. Several Universities offer dedicated Master of Science degrees in Knowledge
Management.
 Inadequate support: managerial and technical, during both implementation and use.
 Expecting that the technology is a KM solution in itself.
 Failure to understand exactly what the firm needs (whether technologically or otherwise).
 Not understanding the specific function and limitation of each individual system.
 Lack of organizational acceptance, and assuming that if you build it, they will come – lack of
appropriate organizational culture.
 Inadequate quality measures (e.g. lack of content management).
 Lack of organizational/departmental/etc fit - does it make working in the organization. Is a
system appropriate in one area of the firm but not another? Does it actually disrupt existing
processes?
 Lack of understanding of knowledge dynamics and the inherent difficulty in transferring tacit
knowledge with IT based systems (see segment on tacit knowledge under knowledge sharing).
 Lack of a separate budget.

5. What is document management?

Document management, often referred to as Document Management Systems (DMS), is the use of a
computer system and software to store, manage and track electronic documents and electronic images
of paper based information captured through the use of a document scanner.
 Document management is how your organization stores, manages and tracks its electronic documents.
Beginning in the 1980s, a number of vendors began developing software systems to manage paper-
based documents. These systems dealt with paper documents, which included not only printed and
published documents, but also photographs, prints, etc..

Later developers began to write a second type of system which could manage electronic documents,
i.e., all those documents, or files, created on computers, and often stored on users' local file-systems.
The earliest electronic document management (EDM) systems managed either proprietary file types,
or a limited number of file formats. Many of these systems later became known as document imaging
systems, because they focused on the capture, storage, indexing and retrieval of image file formats.
EDM systems evolved to a point where systems could manage any type of file format that could be
stored on the network. The applications grew to encompass electronic documents, collaboration tools,
security, workflow, and auditing capabilities.

These systems enabled an organization to capture faxes and forms, to save copies of the documents as
images, and to store the image files in the repository for security and quick retrieval (retrieval made
possible because the system handled the extraction of the text from the document in the process of
capture, and the text-indexer function provided text-retrieval capabilities).

While many EDM systems store documents in their native file format (Microsoft Word or Excel, PDF),
some web-based document management systems are beginning to store content in the form of html.
These policy management systems require content to be imported into the system. However, once
content is imported, the software (ex. Corona Document Management System) acts like a search
engine so users can find what they are looking for faster. The html format allows for better application
of search capabilities such as full-text searching and stemming.
Issue: user-error

6. Organizations that provide e-payment and how secure it is

1. Landbank – Highly Secured
2. Bancnet – Highly Secured
3. Bank of the Philippine Island – Highly Secured
4. Citibank– Highly Secured