The TRACS System was funded by AUSAID under the management of Sagric International for the PRMDP project. The pilot implementors are General Santos City Tagbiliran City, Iligan City, Bacolod City and Puerto Princesa City. It has been running for 6+ years now. However, the implementation has brought mixed success stories. Only Iligan and Puerto Princesa City fully implemented the whole package comprising of BP, RPT and TC Module. And only Puerto Princesa City implemented the recommended continuous accountable form. Bacolod adopted the system later in the project and decided not to implement the RPT Module. Gensan has problem with the connectivity and location of its servers since the offices are not under one roof. The diversity of the implementation environment contributed more on the level of implementation by the pilot LGUs.

However, for the past years, TRACS has delivered its design objectives if not surpassed it. As with all systems though, age has caught up with it. New technologies are available that when harnessed properly increases the productivity and offer far wider services for the LGU and its constituents. Coffey International, who acquires Sagric, acknowledges this importance and commissioned us to upgrade TRACS to ETRACS, the enhanced version of the program. We painstakingly researched on technologies that revolutionizes the old program. We incorporated Rules engine, dynamic updates and design the application to be able to communicate to different LGU through the internet. The system is currently on pilot stage on the following LGUs: Municipality of Oton (Iloilo), Municipality of Leganes (Iloilo), Municipality of Maribojoc (Bohol) and the Province of Bohol. There is still a long and rough road ahead. But with the experience we have with TRACS, its not an impossible task to make.

ETRACS is an exciting system with far-reaching capability and flexibility. We are all excited about it.

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