Babatngon CeC Manager, Felicito Elizon (rightmost), and staff, Ma. Victoria Pineda (second from right), assisting students and other clients at the CeC

In support of the Get Online Philippines! campaign during the National ICT Month celebration, Babatngon CeC offered month-long computer tutorials and Internet access - all for free - to its clientele of students, municipal employees and local residents. Given the positive response from the community, the center hopes to extend the conduct of these activities for another month.

Mr. Felicito Elizon, Babatngon CeC Manager, shared that since the establishment of their CeC, his fellow employees at the municipality became one of the primary beneficiaries of its services.

"Application transactions and record updating were made easy and fast since there would be no need to travel to Tacloban City just to facilitate and update the status of the GSIS requirements. We realized that government transactions can be possible without leaving our offices and be made in a very fast, comfortable and economical way," Mr. Elizon added.

The City Government of Bislig enthusiastically responded to the CICT circular enjoining all government offices to celebrate the National ICT month with the conduct of two ICT-related training workshops - the Basic Computer Operation and Internet Browsing Seminar Workshop and the Digital Photography and Photo Editing Seminar Workshop, on June 19 and June 22-24, respectively. The workshops were facilitated by Bislig's own Information Technology Division, led by Mr. Christopher P. Jabagat and Mr. Aristotle Lloyd M. Cariaso.

The Basic Computer Operation and Internet Browsing Seminar Workshop was a whole day activity which was attended by sixteen participants from different offices, composed mostly by utility workers. Participants were taught the basics of computing and Internet browsing through multi-media lectures and hands-on activities.

On the other hand, twenty participants from the local government unit, the Department of Education DepEd ICT unit and the Bislig Water District, students and representatives from the business sector attended the three-day Digital Photography and Photo Editing training. For this activity, participants were introduced to the versatility of Photoshop CS3, the software most commonly used for photo editing. The activity also encouraged the participants to enhance their creativity skills in editing of the photo they took individually.