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Date: June 29, 2025, 10:50 p.m.

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Information regarding cloud services and system hosting

Published by Department of Tourism(DOT) on June 29, 2025.
Requested from DOT by G. Ramizo at 10:50 PM on June 29, 2025.
Purpose: The purpose of this request is to obtain information that will contribute to an academic study on international cloud infrastructure. This concerns your IT department.
Tracking no: #DOT-863793204813

***** June 29, 2025, 10:50 p.m.

Good day. I am a Filipino academic. I did my PhD at the University of Oxford, UK and I was formerly a lecturer at the Ateneo de Manila University. I am seeking information from your office about how your information systems are hosted. By information systems, I am referring to your institution’s website and internal systems. Your IT department may be in the best position to assist with this FOI request. For each information system that you have (as many as you can conveniently list, and at the very least, your main website) I would like to know the following details: 1. Is the system hosted on-premises, by a commercial hosting provider (e.g., a cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services, Azure or Alibaba Cloud), a combination of the two, or via some other arrangement? 2. If a commercial hosting provider is involved, please supply the name of the provider(s). 3. Since when have the current hosting arrangements been in place? I look forward to your reply. I am part of an international research effort to understand cloud infrastructure and your answers will provide useful insights to society. Kindly provide the above information by July 18, 2025, or in 15 working days as required by Executive Order No. 2, s. 2016. Thank you very much for your time and assistance. P.S. Please note that although I am currently based abroad, I listed my Philippine residential address in the form, as it requires a Philippine municipality, region, and other local details regardless of the selected country.

R.OFFICE June 30, 2025, 9:45 a.m.

Dear eFOI user,

About your letter dated 29 June 2025 at 10:50 PM, regarding your request made under Executive Order No. 2, s. 2016 on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch; specifically your request on Information Regarding Cloud Services and System Hosting.

To effectively address your request, we kindly request additional information from you. This will enable us to provide you with the best possible service. As you have mentioned that the requested information shall be used for academic purposes, may we kindly request you to comply with Section 14.6.d of the 2023 DOT FOI Manual:

  • If the requesting party is a natural person who is a member, employee, affiliated with or related to a juridical entity, company, or organization, and the request is made not on behalf of such juridical entity, a company, or organization but arises from such membership, affiliation or relation, such other sufficient proof of authority.

For example, for an employee or member , a copy of the company or organization I.D.; or for students, a copy of the school I.D., or written endorsement of the supervising teacher, professor, or instructor.

Your prompt response will allow us to proceed with your request on time.

To respond to the request with ticket number #DOT-863793204813, please use the reply function located on the eFOI portal at https://savethedatev211152018-dot-efoi-ph.appspot.com/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyIAsSB0NvbnRlbnQiE0ZPSVBNTy01OTM3NzM2Njg1NjcM.

While we await your reply, your request will be put on hold. If we do not receive a reply on or before 24 September 2025, your request will be closed.

Thank you.

Respectfully,

FOI Officer

Department of Tourism

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