The General Santos City government has
delivered a total of 790 personal computer (PC) sets to local public
schools in the last 20 months as part of the implementation of its
expanded school computerization program.
Percival Pasuelo, information and communication technology division
head of the city mayor’s office, said Tuesday the new PCs were
distributed by the local government to 58 speech and computer
laboratories that it upgraded and established in various public
elementary and secondary schools in the city from July 2011 and until
last month.
“Each of these laboratories was provided with 10 to 20 PCs, depending
on the school’s population,” he said in a statement.
Under the program, Pasuelo said schools with over 1,000 students
received 20 PCs while those with less than 1,000 students got 10 PC
units.
Aside from the computers, he said they provided the recipient-schools
and students with the necessary software, reference materials and
trainings through the city’s enhanced SHEEP-Computer Literacy Program
(CLP).
He said they also established electronic libraries or e-Libraries in
all public elementary and secondary schools within the city’s 26
barangays to provide students and teachers with wider access to
various educational references and related learning materials.
SHEEP stands for Social Transformation, Human Empowerment, Economic
Diversification, Environment Security and Regeneration and
Participatory Governance and Transparency, which are the city’s main
development thrusts.
The city government earlier launched the CLP as a major component of
the SHEEP program’s education-related initiatives.
Pasuelo said the city’s school computerization program started in 1999
with Labangal National High School as initial beneficiary.
Labangal National High School, which serves students belonging to the
“poorest of the poor,” was prioritized then for the first 20 PC units
delivered by the city government, he said.
In 2000, he said the local government expanded the initiative to 16
public high schools, with each getting 20 PCs. The program covered
elementary schools by 2001. [Allen V. Estabillo/MindaNews]
Pasuelo said City Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio pushed for the
upgrading of the school-based computer laboratories in 2011 to address
the growing demand for global competitiveness, especially the need to
increase human capital.
He said the city government then “reengineered” the SHEEP-CLP by
providing more training modules to meet the demands of the city’s
emerging information technology-based Business Process Outsourcing
industry.
“At the grassroots level, basic computer trainings were introduced. We
also offered modules on computer programming, basic robotics,
multimedia art, AutoCAD, animation, call center trainings, among
others,” he added. [Allen V. Estabillo/MindaNews]
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