NTA starts the year with enhanced websiteThe National Tobacco Administration held the formal launching of its newly enhanced website on Friday at the NTA Central Office in Quezon City.
The agency collaborated with the website development team of PMPI Creative Suites to improve the design for easy navigation and provide a more comprehensive source of agency information and services.
According to Administrator and CEO Robert Victor G. Seares Jr., the requirement is an effective online presence with a good quality website and social media links. “With unavoidable restrictions on travel, mass gathering and other related activities, people now turn to and rely on the Internet for relevant information. This has become the norm especially during the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Seares.
Mindful of these circumstances, the agency decided on a design that would reflect a more accessible format with well-organized menu options and simpler navigation, with direct access to all vital information about NTA.
The new site has more dynamic features than its previous design, and offers search capabilities with quick links on programs and projects, production services, technology information, breakthrough products, publications, relevant laws, updates and pertinent statistics on the performance of the local tobacco industry. In addition, the website includes a range of resources and tools designed to help tobacco manufacturers, exporters, importers and transshippers apply for licenses, permits or commodity clearances. There will be a quick link to the TradeNet, the Philippine government’s online trading facilitation portal.The strengthening of the communication and information capability of the agency under the new normal has been the utmost priority of Administrator Seares since middle of last year when he took the helm of the tobacco regulatory agency.
Deputy Administrators Benedicto M. Savellano (Support Services) and Roberto R. Bonoan (Operations), and the managers and senior officers of various departments and units of the Central Office were present on the launching, facilitated by the Public Relations (PR) unit of the Office of the Administrator.
The PR unit, in coordination with the Management Information System of the Corporate Planning Department, will be in charge of the day-to-day updates of the website.
[Photo credit: Roberto R. Bonoan]
