The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has launched the Integrity Chain, a blockchain-based initiative designed to ensure all infrastructure projects are traceable and auditable.
Developed in partnership with the Blockchain Council of the Philippines (BCP), the DICT, and BYC Ventures, the platform provides real-time oversight from bidding to completion.
Public Works Secretary Dizon said President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has directed the DPWH to leverage digitalization and strengthen private organization oversight to verify and monitor all projects—from bidding and planning, to final awarding and its completion.
“This is a major step in ensuring that what we’ve seen in the past doesn’t happen again. And this is what the President keeps on repeating. Not only do we need to hold people to account, not only do we need to get the people’s money back, but even more important is we make sure that this [flood control scandal] does not happen again,” the public works chief stressed.
An initiative with partners BCP, Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), and BYC Ventures, the Integrity Chain provides validators real-time dashboard for decentralized and secure monitoring of infrastructure projects.
“I’m very thankful to President Donald [Lim] and the entire team over at the Blockchain Council of the Philippines, the MAP, BYC, all our private sector partners because I mean, really, we cannot fix this by ourselves. We cannot. The problems in the DPWH are too deeply-rooted. The problems in the government are too deeply-rooted,” Dizon said.
He said that the government needs the innovations brought in by the private sector.
“This is a major step in ensuring that what we’ve seen in the past doesn’t happen again, no? And this is what the President keeps on repeating. Not only do we need to hold people to account, not only do we need to get the people’s money back, but even more important than that probably is we have to make sure that this does not happen again,” Dizon said.
Integrity Chain is an organization established by the BCP together with 30+ partner NGOs to advance transparency and combat corruption through blockchain technology.
It enables government departments and public projects to be recorded on-chain, creating an immutable and auditable trail of activities and documents.
Through a multi-stakeholder governance model, member organizations can review initiatives and collectively vote on whether projects meet integrity and transparency standards—helping ensure public accountability and trust.
