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GILAS
GILAS (Gearing-Up Internet Literacy and Access for
Students) congratulates Quezon City for achieving 100%
Internet connectivity in all its 46 public high schools
early this month.
Quezon City is now the biggest fully connected city
in Luzon, thanks to support from its local government,
corporate and individual donors, volunteers, and partners.
GILAS is Ayala Foundation's program that seeks to engage
the greater community in providing Filipino students
with access to a wealth of information available on
the Internet.
It hails Quezon City as an area that exemplifies its
multi-sectoral nature due to funding from Credit Suisse
First Boston, Ayala Land, Rocking Moon Foundation, Carlos
A. Cordeiro Foundation, Fil-Am groups and alumni associations,
and several private individuals - which was matched
by funding from the office of Mayor Sonny Belmonte.
Computers from the Department of Trade and Industry's
PCs for Public Schools project and Asian Development
Bank were given a year's free broadband Internet subscription
by BayanTel Communications to complete the package in
Quezon City schools.
Volunteers from HSBC, and Philippine Business for Social
Progress conducted training programs for teachers and
computer instructors on basic maintenance, and content
integration with core subjects such as Math, Science
and English.
Department of Education superintendents, school principals,
administrators, faculty, staff, and Parent Teacher Associations
lend their active support to the project by incorporating
computer and Internet learning into their core curricula,
and by finding the means to sustain the school's Internet
subscription after the first year of free connection
has ended.
Out of 5,789 public high schools in the Philippines,
GILAS has so far connected 1,124, and would like to
congratulate all its partners and supporters in being
instrumental in the project's success. GILAS looks forward
to providing Internet connectivity to all public high
schools by its target year 2010.
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