071509: Taiwan launches e-learning digital center

 

WEDNESDAY, 15 JULY 2009 21:18

THE second phase of Taiwan's ADOC, or APEC Digital Opportunity Center, Project called ADOC 2.0 was launched with the opening of an e-learning digital center at the Arcadio Santos National High School-Sun Valley Annex, Parañaque City. The school received the donation of 20 brand-new sets of computers from Asus Foundation, the latest private sponsor to assist the Taiwan government in implementing the ADOC e-learning project.   Personalities who witnessed the turnover ceremonies were Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez, Manila Economic and Cultural Office Ambassador Antonio Basilio, Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office Ambassador Donald Lee, Parañaque City Mayor Florencio Bernabe Jr., ADOC deputy director Wen-Chuan Hung, commissioner Angelo Timoteo Diaz de Vera of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology, Asus Foundation director Wen-Ling Lee and principal Thelma Montiel. The ADOC was initiated by Taipei in the 2003 meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) in Bangkok to meet the goal of bridging digital divide among member-economies. It has collaborated with seven Apec economies, namely, Chile, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines, since its inception. Six ADOC centers have been set up in the Philippines in the past four years: the National Computer Center in Quezon City, Tele-Center at the Smokey Mountain, e-Care Center to visually impaired persons in Quezon City, e-learning centers at the University of the Philippines for Women's Studies and at the ZOTO (Zone One Tondo Organization). IN PHOTO --STUDENTS of the Arcadio Santos National High School try the new computers donated to the school by the Asus Foundation under the ADOC 2.0 Project. Photo shows (from left) Antonio Basilio of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office, Ambassador Donald C.T. Lee of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office and Rep. Roilo Golez during the turnover ceremonies.

 

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