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| Universal Access |
| DepEd to strengthen student entrepreneurship with IT 28 June 2006 |
| The Department of Education has integrated a course on ICT to help students who poised to embark on business ventures. Under the Student Technologists and Entrepreneurs of the Philippines (STEP) skills development program, students are taught the knowledge and skills to create websites which can be used in marketing products and services, among others. (By Alexander Villafania, Inq7.net) |
| RP e-Library project faces possibility of being shutdown 17 June 2006 |
| The e-library project might be shut down, as the project fails to obtain the P67 million additional funding needed to sustain the portal. The e-library currently has 800,000 bibliographic records of both local and international materials; 15,000 theses and dissertations and 29,000 foreign journals, among others. (by Erwin Lemuel Oliva, Inq7.net) |
| K-Agrinet IT program to get second wind 15 June 2006 |
| After its successful three-month caravan, the K-Agrinet (Knowledge Networking Towards Enterprising Agricultural Communities) project is scheduled to have a second tour, this time with a new set of courseware on forestry and rice farming. The five buses used for this project are equipped computers and wireless Internet connection. (by Alexander Villafania, Inq7.net) |
| DepEd looks to IT for changes in education landscape 13 June 2006 |
| The Deaprtment of Education is encouraging policy makers, academicians and IT experts to contribute to DepEd's planning and strategizing activity by submitting abstracts for the Second Basic National ICTs in Basic Education Congress. With the theme, “Innovating with Technologies: The Challenge to Education Policy and Management” the Congress will be held in September in Cebu. (by Alexander Villafania, Inq7.net) |
| DepEd, CICT tie-up for summer ICT training for teachers 04 June 2006 |
| The Department of Education (DepEd) and the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) are currently training 400 public elementary school teachers in the use of ICTs for the creation of lesson plans, class schedules, grading systems and teaching. Each of the 40 schools represented by the participants will receive 20 computers and one server, all sourced out of the E-Government Fund. |
| IT skills training enlisted in fight vs human trafficking 03 June 2006 |
| As part of its Unlimited Potential project, Microsoft Philippines aims to train survivors of human trafficking as a means of helping them find livelihood as they recover from their ordeals. For this endeavor, Microsoft partnered with the Visayan Forum Foundation, an NGO which has been conducting research on and has set up half-way houses to shelter survivors of human trafficking. (By Joey Alarilla, Inq7.net) |
| Nueva Vizcaya is 100th community e-center established for electronic governance 31 May 2006 |
| The 100th community e-center was inaugurated in Nueva Vizcaya. Located at the provincial hall's Information Technology Office, the CeC provides the constituents, especially students with easier access to technologies and resources. (by news. balita.ph) |
| IT industry gets bigger share of P500M scholarship program 12 May 2006 |
| Almost half of the opportunities within the government's "Training for Work Scholarship Program," is said to be bound for IT workers. Speaheaded by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), the program intends to supplement the needs of newly-hired personnel in the bureaucracy. (by Alexander Villafania, Inq7.net) |
| Webmasters’ interface on accessible ICT for PWDs, set 04 May 2006 |
| In an effort to bring ICTs closer to people with disabilities (PWDs), the National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons (NCWDP) together with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is scheduling a workshop that will gather webmasters across the country. “Webmasters’ Interface on Accessible ICT for Persons with Disabilities” is slated on May 24-26 in Cebu City. (by Robert E. Roperos, the Philippine Information Agency) |
| VOIP forum to tackle community-wide deployment 22 April 2006 |
| As the recent ruling on voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) is bound to make the technology more common in the next few years, various stakeholders from the public sector as well as from the academic and technical communities have decided to meet and discuss the larger implications of VOIP's widespread deployment to a range of actors: telecommunications companies, Internet service providers and most importantly, the end-users. (By Alexander Villafania, Inq7.net) |
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