NOLITC among country’s top performing Tech4Ed centers

THE Negros Occidental Language and Information Center (NOLITC) in Bacolod City is one of the top performing Technology for Education, Employment, Entrepreneurial, and Economic Development (Tech4Ed) centers in the country.

The recognition came from the Department of Science and Technology-Information and Communication Technology Office (DOST-ICTO).

Cristina Orbecido, vocational school administrator of ‘NOLITC, said that since the Tech4Ed center in NOLITC was opened in March, along with other two centers in towns of Himamaylan and Cauayan, it has been consistently recognized as one of the country’s top five performing centers.

Last April, Orbecido said the DOST-ICTO ranked NOLITC third in providing Tech4Ed services among its recipient-users, mostly students and out-of-school youth.

“One of the criteria for the recognition is the huge number of users that the center is serving, “which is one of the areas that we are currently concentrating on,” Orbecido said, adding that through the Tech4Ed mobile, NOLITC is working on maximizing and further bringing the services to the communities outside Bacolod.

DOST-ICTO “said that Tech4Ed project is mainly designed to complement the government’s goal of achieving inclusive growth through bridging the gap between educational and digital divide.

The agency said it is eyeing to establish 42,000 centers in the country, which will comprise the nationwide Tech4Ed network. The project targets all sectors of the community, including persons with disabilities, senior citizens, out-of-school youth and indigenous peoples, empowering, ‘and enabling them to join the growth mainstream.

For the first phase, the Tech4Ed centers in the province will provide three main services such as eEduSkills, which focuses on educational and digital divide; eAssist for opportunity divide; and eGovServ devised for direct service to people.

Under the eEduSkills are digitized reviewers for Alternative Learning System, Learning English Language for Pinoys, online Technical Education and Skills Development Authority training courses, and value formation, including how to use the internet and cyber security.

The eAssist includes Microsoft digital literacy and career shifting module for teachers.

The eGovServ provides the community access to services of various government agencies like Social Security System, Pag-Ibig Fund, and National Bureau of Investigation.

For NOLITC, Orbecido said the Tech4Ed services that are mostly used are the eGovServ and eEduSkills.

“We continue to promote the Tech4Ed project to cover more recipients in the province by incorporating it in other activities and programs of NOLITC,” she said.

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