Duterte Admin To Provide Solar-Powered Laptops, 7-In-1 Tablets To 6,000 PH Public Schools With No Electricity
In an effort to widen access to technology in far-flung
areas, the Department of Education (DepEd) under the government of President
Rodrigo Duterte is set to distribute computer packages and solar panels to
public schools in areas without available electricity.
According to Undersecretary Alain Del Pascua, for this year,
the DepEd beneficiaries are about 6,000 public schools both in elementary and
secondary levels in places without electrical supply.
“The innovation in this effort is that the computer package
includes a solar panel that will support the provision of electrical energy. We
hope that these computers will help improve their teaching and learning
activities despite their remote location,” Pascua said.
The computer package includes one laptop and a 7-in-1
tablet.
“This is the government’s initiative to promote
tech-savviness in rural barangays and let them cope with the technological
advancement of their counterparts in the urban area,” Pascua added.
The DepEd estimated that 4,000 beneficiaries will be coming
from Luzon and Mindanao, while 2,000 schools will be from the Visayas.
With P1.4 billion funding under the DepEd Computerization
Program budget, the procurement is underway through the United Nations
Development Program (UNDP) and the Department of Budget and
Management-Procurement Service (DBM-PS).
Under the DepEd Computerization Program, the government has
allotted P6 billion funds under the 2017 General Appropriations Act (GAA) to
procure about 188,000 units of computers for public elementary and secondary
schools nationwide.
The DCP is in response to the computer backlog in public
schools, where DepEd will provide hardware and software package, including
training on simple troubleshooting.
The program has the following goals: provision of computer
laboratory packages to public secondary schools, including Senior High School
(SHS) and provision of e-classrooms to elementary schools; provision of laptop
units to mobile teachers; and integration of ICT in the classroom system while
raising the literacy of learners on new technology.
Source: DepEd.Gov
Duterte Admin To Provide Solar-Powered Laptops, 7-In-1 Tablets To 6,000 PH Public Schools With No Electricity
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