Open Source Technology for Automated Election System
The Commission on Election (Comelec) has already granted contracts to two-technology firm for the automated election system in Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) scheduled on August 11.
A group of Information Technology Professionals has called the government to use open source technology for the automated election system in the Philippines. Ito Gruet, vice president of the Philippine Computer Society and a director of the Philippine Software Industry Association said that unlike Direct Recording Equipment (DRE), the proposed hybrid solution would cost around P1 billion to implement. Compare to that DRE would cost P17 billion if made available to all the country’s precincts.
Ito Gruet said, “”We believe that the software should be open source so that people in the know can look at it and review if it is really a working system,”
