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excuse caps used, aid in following thread not shouting best regards rene abad e-d, y3k foundation ---------- Original Message ---------- To: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: [DDN] New Initiative in The Phillipines - Ayala Foundation- Gilas.org Date: 3/17/2006 7:24:09p > GILAS is an acronym for Gearing-up Internet Literacy and Access for > Students. It is a project initiated by a group of private companies, and > aimed at providing an Internet lab for each of the 5,443 public high > schools in the Philippines. GOOD INITIATIVE > > The Philippines spends approximately $64 per student per annum on > secondary education; quite low compared to approximately $7,500 that the > US spends, and $5,000 for Singapore. The Philippines ' huge budget > deficit and the country's myriad of needs make it difficult for the > government to increase its education spending. The lack of spending > manifests itself in the lack of classrooms and teachers, poorly trained > teachers, underdeveloped curricula and practically non-existent > libraries. RELATIVELY GOOD FIGURE VIS-A-VIS GDP PER CAPITA > As a result, the quality of graduates from the public school system has > been rapidly declining. As it is, only a few students are able to > graduate: out of every 100 Filipino children who enter first grade, only > 3 will finish college and 45 will finish secondary school. This > under-education has severely handicapped the new participants in the > national and global workforce. LOW INCOME OF FAMILIES MAIN CAUSE OF NOT FINISHING SCHOOL NOT LOW BUDGET SUPPORT FILIPINOS ARE COMPETITIVE ABROAD IN AREAS WHERE WE CAN COMPETE HIGH SCHOOL GRADS IN ITALY SENDING HOME $1000/MONTH TO THEIR FAMILIES OVERSEAS FILIPINOS SEND MORE THAN $10 BILLION/YEAR TO HOME SLOWLY WE WILL GO UP THE VALUE CHAIN > With the Internet, we have found a powerful and efficient tool to > address the education gap among the country's youth. Access to the > Internet democratizes information-giving students free access to > electronic encyclopedias that aid in research, math, science, and > languages. YOU CAN PROVIDE MORE ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE WITH SAME MONEY BY 1. HARDISK AND CD BASED DATA 2. SURPLUS HARDWARE 3. FLOSS 4. TRAINING 5. MAINTENANCE JOBS > > Libraries in the public school system are in poor condition and in need > of basic books. Internet access provides a partial immediate solution to > this problem. Computer labs in schools provide the tools for computer > training, which prepares high-school student for jobs in the fast-growing > business process outsourcing industry and other fields requiring basic > computer skills. BPO COMPANIES WILL NOT HIRE EVEN THE MOST COMPUTER LITERATE HIGH SCHOOL GRAD Computers and Internet access facilitate networking > among schools and promote the sharing of teaching modules, the > standardization of material, and teacher training. Currently, 6% of the > country's public high schools have Internet labs. TEACHING MODULES CAN BE HARDISK OR CD BASED > In 2000, the Ayala Foundation launched its Youth Tech program to provide > Internet connectivity packages to schools that had received computers > from a Japanese government grant. In 2001, a group of 28 private > corporations and foundations called ConnectEd.ph was organized by the > Makati Business Club to join the Ayala Foundation's effort. The group > managed to wire 323 public high schools by end-2004. The success of these > projects and the daunting task of reaching out to all of the country's > public high schools prompted groups in the private sector to band > together and work towards a common goal. In GILAS is the hope of making a > tangible contribution to the youth of the Philippines. > http://www.gilas.org/index.htm MORE STUDENTS WOULD HAVE BENEFITED BY USING LOWER PER SCHOOL COST MODELS WHOLE PHILIPPINES MIGHT HAVE BEEN COVERED BY NOW BUT STILL A GOOD INITIATIVE COVERING A GOOD AREA SOLUTIONS NOW NEEDED FOR AREAS NOT COVERED > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org > http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
