CICT launches first municipal eSkwela Center in Tanauan, Leyte

Written by Eugene
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Tanauan, Leyte is the venue of the first municipal eSkwela, a flagship project of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), that is envisioned to provide ICT-enhanced educational opportunities for Filipino out-of-school youth and adults. The initiative responds directly to President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's national development priority and will bring e-learning opportunities and ICT for learning resources to mobile teachers, instructional managers and out-of-school learners in the Philippines in an exciting, innovative, and locally meaningful way. The Tanauan eSkwela was launched on February 25 at the Tanauan Town Hall. The event was graced by Leyte Governor Carlos Jericho Petilla, Vice Governor Mimyet S. Bagulaya, officials from the Department of Education (DepEd) Region 8 and Leyte Division, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), Literary Coordinating Council, and Philippine Information Agency. NCC IT Coordinator Ms. Claire Fernandez was also there to witness the event along with the Alternative Learning System (ALS) coordinators and mobile teachers from differents municipalities, officials of Tanauan's fifty-four barangays, and some learners.
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Reaching out to persons with disabilities through telecenters

Written by Cuchie
Thursday, 26 February 2009
PWDs learn to use the computer at the telecenter in Club Bellvitge in Spain During last month’s telecentre.org Community Facilitators Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, we had the opportunity to visit the telecenter housed at Club Infantil i Juvenil Bellvitge, one of the social inclusion facilities being managed by Fundación Esplai. Said telecenter is under the government telecenter network in Cataluña called Red Omnia, and is actually one of the first centers established under the network. Red Omnia has three areas of action: employability, community integration and training. Aside from the fact that the entire center was well-maintained with very good facilities to boot, what really struck me most was the diversity of services offered at the telecenter, foremost of which is the program that they have for persons with disabilities or PWDs.
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Written by Administrator
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
1st anniversary issue of Telecentre Magazine The first anniversary issue of Telecentre Magazine is out, and our very own Jimmy Calata, manager of the Nueva Vizcaya Community eCenter (NVCeC) and Chair of the CeC Development and Management Committee of the Philippine CeC Network, is featured under the Grassroots Story section in an article entitled “Technopreneur with Social Mission”. Among the highlights of the current issue are articles on the telecentre.org Academy, telecenters for adult literacy, increasing telecenter network sustainability through social enterprise, communication and telecenter networks, and the interview with International Development Research Centre Program Manager Florencio Ceballos wherein he shares the vision behind the setting up of telecentre.org and his own vision of the future course of both telecentre.org and the telecenter movement.
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