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Believing in Jesus, Mimosa Cortez Ocampo

I was invited as Guest Preacher in the Children's Worship Service at the Church Among the Palms, College, Laguna, Philippines on February 28,2010.

This is the first time i am uploading an article here at CoWeb.org.

Please click here to download my article.

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Minimatech Events - Plans and Stories

You will find plans and stories of training and launching events here in the Events section.

Minimatech (eMinima) events started with Teacher Laury's Values Education teaching at Pedro Guevara Memorial National High School (PGMNHS) Annex Campus in 2005 (PGMNHS is a public high school in Sta Cruz, Laguna). That online teaching site self-developed by Laury is archived at annex.ph-islands.net, and the paper she wrote about her pioneering work is here (right-click to download) In 2006, Laury moved a step further and conducted her PhD dissertation about a self-developed and self-deployed elearning laboratory at PGMNHS-Annex.

Now a PhD graduate, Dr. Laury still keeps her own teaching website at laury.coweb.org.
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Update as of December 3, 2009 - More stories will be published here soon!

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VIA pc-1 Affordable Community Computing Workshop (Archive)

Tuesday, 28 November 2006
Archived from viapc-1.com

Just like many other developing countries, computers are not as ubiquitous in the Philippines as they should be. And as in the case of many other significantly digitally divided countries, the reasons for this are much the same. I wasn’t surprised to learn yesterday that the main barrier to computer access in the Philippines is affordability, or lack thereof. This is precisely the reason that the VIA pc-1 workshop I attended yesterday was headlined Affordable PCs for Education and Development.

Held in one of the APEC Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) computer labs at the Philippines National Computer Center, the workshop was organized by the Institute for Information Industry (III), ADOC, the Philippine eLearning Society (PELS) and the Philippines Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT). VIA Technologies and eWay Technology Systems sponsored the workshop, as well as assisting in running the event.

The workshop was very much a hands-on affair and was attended by various individuals including education professionals, government and NGO representatives. I had the opportunity to speak with many of those who were present and I was very impressed with the collective enthusiasm on the prospect of low-cost computing. I did, however, get the impression that before the workshop began some of them thought it all sounded too good to be true. But by the end of the day, everyone in attendance was convinced that not only is low-cost computing a reality, its also very achievable.

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