The Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) plans to connect some 500 community telecenters operated by different government agencies under a single network.
These telecenters--also referred to as community e-centers or CECs--are intended to provide Internet and telecommunications access to remote communities.
The National Computer Center (NCC) received some P100 million in 2004 to fund the establishment of 100 CECs in two years.
In an interview, Tess Camba, director of NCC's field operations office, said 98 CECs have been deployed so far as of the end of last year.
"Two (CECs) got delayed because these were located in typhoon-hit areas," Camba said.
Some 250 CECs, meanwhile, will be put up under a separate project by the Telecommunications Office (Telof), formerly an attached CICT agency and recently moved back to the Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC).
The rest of the 500 CECs will be put up under a separate project by the CICT.
The CEC project was started by the DoTC some two years ago. At that time, DoTC was inviting the private sector to finance some CECs but the offer received a lukewarm response.
CICT is drafting a roadmap that will mandate rules to be followed in establishing the remaining CECs until 2010. A portal will also be put up that connects all 500 CECs.
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