EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Libertad is the northernmost municipality of the province of Antique, a 5 th class municipality with
17,886 individuals and 4,350 households as per 2019 POPCOM Registry of Barangay Inhabitants and
Migrants Survey. It has a total land area of 97.00 constituting 3.55% of the 2,729.17 square kilometers
total area of Antique.

The concept started in the year 2016 when the multi-awarded Municipal Mayor was re-elected into
office after her 3-term (9 years) ended back in 2007.

The town she once helped build was never the same when she came back in 2016. She faced a
poverty level (20.9) one of the top 10 among the municipalities in the province, unfinished and delayed
implementation of programs and projects making the LGU as one of the poorest implementer in the
region, rampant illegal activities in both coastal and upland, further environmental degradation, and
poor local governance with unestablished database system and with 98% IRA dependency.

Bringing home the lessons and appreciation of development initiatives in the foreign land, she
became a stronger advocate for sustainable development and the importance of Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) in improving local governance, fighting poverty, and people
empowerment.

She once said that Libertad may be a small town and may one of the poorest, but, it should not stop
it from facing multi-sectoral challenges and problems with innovative solutions. In fact, it’s pioneering
the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in improving its internal management,
service delivery, environmental protection and conservation, planning, and fighting poverty.

Mayor Te encourage other municipalities of Antique to look at the Project iComSys for this is a
crucial opportunity and area of every municipality. To improve and compete with the rest of world then
an LGU is to come up with proper Data banking approach inorder to stabilize the community. Project
iComSys an Integrated Community Information System was created because of the need to stabilize the
community data banking. It is easier, more convenient and being used to provide concrete data.