THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in Negros Occidental-North has conducted an orientation on geotagging to boost the delivery of support services in the province.

The orientation attended by 23 development facilitators of the agency assigned in different cities and municipalities in the northern part of the province held at DAR Provincial Office in Bacolod City recently.

Officer-in-charge chief Agrarian Reform Program Officer Rizalina Yuguing, who spoke at the activity, said the orientation aims to relay the geotagging technology to the agency's implementers for the fast and easy monitoring of the support services delivery.

"This [orientation] will equip the development facilitators with knowledge on the proper usage of such technology which will pave a way for them to come up with truthful and accurate reports," she added.

Agrarian Reform Program Officer 1 Engineer Jaymel Pelino, for his part, explained to the facilitators the process of utilizing the technology.

Pelino said geotagging is the process of adding geographical information to various media in the form of metadata.

The data usually consists of coordinates like latitude and longitude, but may include bearing, altitude, distance and names of places.

This technology is most used for photographs and can help in identifying specific information about the taken photographs. Geotagging can help users find a wide variety of location-specific information.

Geotagging-enabled information services can be used to find location-based news, websites or other resources, he added.

Teodoro Che Salido, section chief of Enterprise Development and Economic Support (Edes), said the orientation on geotagging is solely focused on the implementation of the project dubbed "The Passover: Arbold Move to Heal as One Deliverance our ARBs from the Covid-19 Pandemic."

Salido said with 1,843 ARB-targets for component two of the project, geotagging is important in terms of monitoring and evaluating the project implementation.

"The use of this technology in the projects and programs of the DAR is just a clear manifestation that even in a global pandemic, the agency secures its effectivity and efficiency as it adapts to the ever changing world," he added.