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COASTAL 12 12 12 13
BROADBAND 10 18 19 19
NATIONWIDE 4.17
19.36 PER 100
POPULATION
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Autonomous Region
Business Development
Build the RP brand and image;
Focus on niches in the Foreign Market where the
country has a sustainable competitive advantage;
Use a more targeted approach in selling and closing
outsourcing opportunities.
Information Infrastructure
An empowered youth is a nation’s best hope for the future. Given their
inspiring capacity for creativity, ingenuity and restless energy, it is vital to create an
environment that can harness these positive qualities and nurture them to be able to
forge towards the future with confidence and noble expectations.
With ICTs vast powers and potentials as a major catalyst of economic growth,
it is being harnessed by the Philippine government to help narrow the income
disparities among Filipinos and bridge the existing digital divide among the different
regions and communities in our country.
Empowerment of the Filipino Youth
Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.” The Rights of the
Child demand that we must go beyond providing for the basics like
food, clothing, and shelter and should strive to succor to the child’s
emotional, social and spiritual needs.
Empowerment of the Filipino Youth
The DBM has issued a circular mandating all government agencies, GOCCs and
LGUs to institutionalize youth development programs, activities and projects, in
their annual planning, programming and budgeting process, implementation and
monitoring and evaluation.
The National Youth Commission is tasked to spearhead this monitoring scheme and
submit an annual Accomplishment Report with HR of Congress, the DBM and
NEDA. While this is not specifically aimed to cater to ICT by the Youth sector, it
provides a feasible window of opportunity to bring in ICT programs and projects
that benefit the youth.
Empowerment of the Filipino Youth
Under its Strong Republic Program, President Arroyo pushed for the government’s
distance learning program to raise the literacy rate in some 400 remote and
impoverished barangay in the country. It aims to provide a communication
infrastructure for TV broadcasting and Internet access as a primary medium to deliver
the distance learning program and translate the standard education program, as well
as a pre-emptive way to stop the recruitment of terrorist and the spread of insurgency.
Critical to this program is the continuance of e-learning with the teaching of English
and the upgrade of math and science in schools. In re-iterating that technology is the
foundation of future economic development, the President emphasized that
technology must not only be a subject matter of our curriculum but as the medium of
the message in preserving our values. Knowledge without character is not
acceptable. She called for deeper inculcation of moral, social and cultural values
through our basic education system.
Empowerment of the Filipino Youth
In line with its outreach program, the DOST, under its Science Education Institute,
has a Mobile IT Classroom (MITC) which is a special bus with laptop computers,
audio visual equipment and learning software, that goes around designated areas
in the regions on schedule to make science learning through computers fun and
easy. This goes to the grassroots level, bringing ICT specially the internet, to the
remotest barrios and barangays.
While it may take time for the government to provide computers to all public
schools, it is good that MITC is already roaming around schools, inching its way
through rough roads and crossing wooden bridges, to give students in the barrio a
ride in cyberspace.
Empowerment of the Filipino Youth
A global program developed locally under the leadership of the Ayala Foundation
with the commitment and involvement of UNDP, the Pearson library, the
Department of Education, Seameo Innotech, Globe Telecom, Dream Broadcasting
and Chikka Asia. It aims to deliver digital education materials to schools using
mobile technology. Interactive, multi-media learning materials become accessible
to local classrooms around the world.
In a countrywide pilot beginning June 2003, fifth and sixth grade teachers and
pupils in 40 public and private schools from Manila and Mindanao use mobile
phones to access a library of more than 80 full length science videos. The
selected videos are downloaded via satellite to the digital video recorder connected
to a television in the classroom. The Philippines has been chosen as the pilot site,
primarily due to country’s comfort level for digital technology, particularly the cell
phone and its English proficiency.
Community e-Centers (CEC): Philippine Model
This project will augment
the existing government
efforts on solving the “last
mile problem” with private
sector and local
community participation
to improve bandwidth
affordability in remote
areas through several
deployment models. These
e-centers can establish a
new channel for delivery
of e-government services
at a lower cost.
Empowerment of the Filipino Youth
MABUHAY!