Claire Peque Fernandez, Regional IT Coordinator for Region VIII, was hailed as one of the top bloggers in the recently concluded telecentre.org blog contest, with her entry entitled “Realistic Path to Sustainability for the Telecentre Champions Group”.

The first ever competition featuring the blogging platform, it ran from April 20 to May 30 2009, gathering entries, features and stories of managers and operators working for the global telecentre initiative. Web logs, more popularly known as blogs, are a type of websites maintained by an individual or a group with entries on a particular topic. Because of its accessibility and relative ease of use, blogs nowadays are one of the main instruments for sharing information across the globe.

The National Computer Center (NCC) will join Convergence 2009: Empowering the Filipino through ICT, part of this year’s National ICT Month celebration. With ICT initiatives permeating through the Filipino life and society in this time and age, convergence is but an apt direction to take in remembering the past, celebrating the present and broadcasting the future for ICT.

Slated for launch this June 29 at the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) office in Quezon City, Convergence 2009 is a fusion of events, bringing together the CICT Cyber Corridor Roadshow, the Talent Caravan of the Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) and the Coordinationg Council of Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA) in one grand affair.

Written by Claire P. Fernandez RITC Region 8

The Local Government Units in Region VIII are enjoying the benefits of having global identities.

Malitbog, Southern Leyte finds their website, http://www.malitbog-sleyte.gov.ph, an aid center. A certain Ms. Merlita Morcesa, 36 years old, single and resident of Sta. Cruz, Malitbog, Southern Leyte, came to the municipality one day to ask for assistance regarding a tumor on her face.

Written by Engr. Baby Neil Quiñonez, LGU-Cagwait MPDC

The Local Government Unit (LGU) of Cagwait, through the leadership of the Municipal Mayor Hon. Bonifacio G. Ondona, in partnership with the National Computer Center-Field Operations Office (NCC-FOO), conducted the Website Upgrading Workshop (WUW) last March 3-5, 2009.

Said 3-day in-house training workshop was participated by 30 rank and file employees representing each of the 15 municipal offices of the LGU, and three national agencies.