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23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines 29 January, 2008 10:53
Providing high school students with PCs is seen as a first step to preparing them for a technology-literate future, but in the Philippines many schools cannot afford to provide computing facilities so after a successful deployment of 13,000 Fedora Linux systems from a government grant, plans are underway to roll out another 10,000 based on Ubuntu. - +
Philippines launches Linux for government project 25 June, 2002 12:17
To provide government agencies with an alternative platform to the more costly proprietary systems, Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) recently launched an open source operating system called Bayanihan Linux. - +
Analysis: Snapshots from the OS front 11 June, 2002 06:31
Government officials the world over are getting drawn into the debate over the relative merits of using open source software rather than Microsoft Corp.'s Windows applications and other software developed by vendors who closely guard the intellectual property of their source code. - +
Philippines making progress in open source push 05 March, 2002 08:11
The Philippines' National Computer Center (NCC) is making headway in promoting the use of open source technologies in government agencies, despite the lack of a high-level policy to support such a direction. - +
Philippines agency eyes Bluetooth development 15 March, 2001 15:28
The Philippines Advanced Science Technology Institute (ASTI) is scheduled to complete the development of a software protocol stack for Bluetooth technology next month. The software protocol stack will be the foundation for the development of products and applications using Bluetooth, Ian Chan Wong, ASTI's Bluetooth project director, told Computerworld Philippines. - +
Philippines Incubator Project Takes Off 10 August, 2000 12:01
Information technology professionals and entrepreneurs with creative ideas now have a chance to develop and market them with the help of the Cebu Property Ventures and Development Corp. (CPVDC) business incubator project. CPVDC launched its incubator project at the Cebu Civic Trade Center (CCTC) IT park last July. - +
NEDA Exec Says IT21 Moving Ahead 13 March, 2000 12:01
The National Information Technology Plan for the 21st Century, otherwise known as IT21, is slowly but surely being realized, a key government official said last month. - +
Philippines Worried About Losing IT Manpower Edge 19 January, 2000 12:01
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is barely making ends meet with the low budget allocation for R&D, and the Philippines can quickly lose any competitive advantage in IT manpower to its more aggressive neighbors.
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