[1] Data collection began in response to findings by the National Statistical Coordination Board that 30% of Filipino families have an income below that needed for "basic requirements".
[5] The database has identified a total of 5.25 million households below the poverty threshold of their respective provinces.
The system can also correlate other poverty related problems like human trafficking in order to prevent them from even happening.
It uses Open Technologies as the primary software backbone and the latest multiple processor servers available at the time.
To overcome such challenge, data porting software are developed in-house from existing Open Source systems.