12 High School in Aklan now Internet Ready

GILAS and DepED recently awarded an internet connection to 12 public high schools in the province of Aklan. According to Ayala Foundation Project Director, the aim of GILAS is to connect 6,600 public schools throughout the Philippines.

The Globe Internet Provider is the internet distributor for the GILAS Project. Normally, the school will pay the monthly internet access after 2 years of free service (depends on the agreement). Some computers and LAN equipment were included in the donation. To be able to avail this project, it is better to contact Ayala Foundation or GILAS regional offices.


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Information Technology bill Being Push

The Philippine Technology Act of 2009 is a new bill created by Mar Roxas to serve as blue print in the government investment in IT and R&D.

He said there is a need to push the country's IT's and R&D capacity in mastering latest technology and scientific innovation is the key to Philippines economic progress. He proposed that IT projects and new innovations should be made public and accessible for faster commercialization.

We should recall that the US military already have the internet for their intelligence purposes way back cold war days. When they open the technology in public commercialization through the help of US Senator and former VP, the Information Superhighway became unstoppable to max that it benefited most Philippines call center as well as call center in India and Mexico for spanish market together with less fortunate European countries. One Internet technology Guru said the IT innovation is alarming that there is always arena for development in which  government may not capable to control specially like those under  develop countries as  we are.

This Technology Transfer Act of 2009 will helps the distribution and commercialization of intellectual property and technology researched funded by the government for the purpose of economic growth through information technology where Philippines outsourcing companies and local IT companies are expected to enjoy the benefits.

The DepED family specially the pupils, students and its teachers will be the most benefited of any improvement of technology. As of now, there is no research on the prevalence of ICT integration in the school. How many schools are implementing integration and how many teachers per school are capable of ICT integration in their classes. While PowerPoint presentation and Internet are the best tools for the subject like Araling Panlipunan and Technology and Livelihood Education, I have seen teachers not optimizing the used of these technologies. Some said they lack of computers even the computers are there even it is 1:4 ratio, it is still functional to the lesson. What is see in this issue in my 5 years as ICT Trainor is the knowledge and skills of teacher to integrate the lesson with ICT and not just leaving the computer inside the classroom giving more traffics to youtube, facebook, friendster and many more.

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Internet Explorer is world's favorite browser

Internet Explorer browser is still the number 1 browser in the world with 67% world's users and wit as followed by Firefox Mozilla with 22%. Mozilla is well known in Asia and for all IT specialists because it is a user friendly, high speed and accepts numerous plug-ins based on your desired setting. Safari browser ranks 3^rd since, it is readily available if the computer brand is Apple.

Due to the trend, Google Chrome, the 4th best browser is now integrated to Sony vaio brand computers which are to be sold in the US market. This computer is highly expensive and thus only the elite people avails the product which on the other side is not suited for the general public.

Opera was not known if it did not rank 5th as the world favorite browser. As an IT Specialist, I regularly use Firefox followed by Opera then Internet explorer. IE always gives a problem to me so I seldom use it for my very urgent and important work. Upon reading the news, I will start to test safari and evaluate its performance.

Internet Explorer is still holds the biggest number of global users? It is because the program is readily available in your PC through its Windows operating system and its family of OS. Meanwhile, Microsoft is little by little improving its IE by following w3c protocol. It now accepting plug in. Last month Microsoft partners with Yahoo.com

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