With the objective of bringing world class service to the public, the National Statistic Office and Unisys, a electronics solution business company merged to give way to the computerization projects of NSO which is now on a steady pace.

With the start of the Civil registry System-Information Technology Projects (CRS-ITP), it won't be long for the public to experience the "while-you-wait" processing and "request anywhere" capability from NSO which you can access in the address www.censun.gov.ph  Even if your not in the Philippines or any place on earth as long as you have your computer and have access to the internet. You can file any request for a copy of birth certificate, marriage or death with the help of the Internet.

Last January 2001, Unisys spent P55.6 million in investments in order to finish the project on time before the target date. Unisys is the private sector partner in multi-phase 12-year computirization project. 

Mr. Tomas P. Africa, NSO Administrator and civil registrar-general introduced Unisys to strengthen the ties with the agency to give service that is at par with today's fast blooming technology. Africa also told the press that in the first quarter of 2001 the Metro Manila CRS outlet will be operational.

The biggest challenge for Unisys is the guarantee of the CRS to be operational for a long time. "Our role as architects is to design a system that can withstand 12 years of operation, which means that the system should be able to adapt even during upgrades and shifts in technology." said Jay Joson, Unisys technical manager for NSO computerization project.

There will be a total of six Metro Manila outlets and 78 regional/provincial CRS outlets that will be operational nationwide.

Based on the contract schedule, the roll-put of 13 regional outlets is expected to be done by February 2002. This is because of the service of the NSO to bring NSO to the people. No need for people who are outside Metro Manila to travel in Metro manila to get the necessary copies of birth certificate, marriage or death.

Because of the computerization project of NSO, fabricating and fake civil registry documents will be avoided. With regards to security, Unisys is on the process of creating a system that would adopt the WORM technology. "Once a birth certificate has been image-scanned and stored in the optical disc, you can read it several times but can't write or erase anything on the file. it's called WORM, or Write-Once, Read-Many" as explained by Jay Joson.

There are still a lote of modifications to achieve the projects that NSO has to face as central source of civil registry documents and important statistics.

For the record, Unysis is a electronic business solutions company which was founded in 1929. The company has 36,000 employees helping more than 100 countries in applying information technology to give opportunity in the Internet economy.