The Blockchain Council of the Philippines (BCP)—a non-stock, non-profit organization of blockchain professionals and advocates committed to the responsible use of blockchain technology for governance, business, and social good—has formally partnered with the government’s infrastructure arm, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), to launch Integrity Chain, a blockchain-powered platform designed to embed transparency, accountability, and public trust into national infrastructure projects.
Through a Memorandum of Agreement signed recently, BCP President Dr. Donald Patrick Lim and DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon committed to digitizing and securing key data on selected national projects—such as budgets, procurement processes, and construction milestones—on an immutable blockchain ledger accessible to the public.
Dizon, in his remarks, expressed DPWH’s full support.
“By placing our foreign-assisted projects—those funded by Official Development Assistance (ODA)—on the Integrity Chain, we welcome the scrutiny of the private sector, academe, and civil society. This is DPWH’s strong response to the President’s directive to ensure transparency and accountability is enforced for its projects,” the public works chief said.
“This is really what we should all do.”
“On behalf of the President, on behalf of the entire cabinet, on behalf of the entire government, thank you for this because this is really what we should all do,” the public works head noted.
“From the budget process to the procurement process, to the award of the contract, to the implementation of the project, to the monitoring of the project, to the payments made to the contractors, to the acceptance of the project. Everyone should be watching now, everyone,” he added.
The Integrity Chain aims to transform infrastructure governance by offering a real-time public dashboard that tracks project spending and progress, enabling citizen feedback and anomaly reporting, and providing tamper-proof records to deter corruption.
“For the first time, the private sector isn’t just demanding integrity—we’re building the infrastructure to deliver it.”
“For the first time, the private sector isn’t just demanding integrity—we’re building the infrastructure to deliver it,” Lim said.
As part of the pilot, BCP will provide the DPWH with a one-year complimentary subscription to the Integrity Chain, which includes technical support, training, and cybersecurity measures in full compliance with the Data Privacy Act of 2012.
The initiative has garnered strong support from business leaders, academics, civil society groups, professional organizations, and faith-based institutions. In a show of unity, more than 50 respected institutions signed a Statement of Support describing the Integrity Chain as a bold and necessary reform that sets a new benchmark for transparent governance.
In his statement of support, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Henry Aguda calls upon BCP, “Lets rally behind technology, let’s rally behind doing a new way of governance in the country.”
The launch held at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) also drew participation from major international development and lending agencies, including the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Korean Eximbank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), and the World Bank’s Road Transport and Country Operations.
These agencies are key funders of the DPWH’s foreign-assisted flagship infrastructure projects under the “Build Better More” program and implemented by the Unified Project Management Office (UPMO) Clusters, which will be the first to be recorded on the Integrity Chain.
