Publication: Building and Sustaining National ICT/Education Agencies: Lessons from the Philippines
Date
2016
ISSN
Published
2016
Author(s)
Vergel de Dios, Benjamin
Abstract
Beginning in 1996, the Department of
Education (DepEd) started to implement the first large scale
ICT/education initiative in the Philippines. This effort was
later strengthened and expanded to become the DepEd
Computerization Program and DepEd Internet Connectivity
Program (DCP/DICP). This was a huge undertaking for DepEd,
both to oversee and to implement. Fortunately, many groups
were willing to help – other government agencies,
international and non-government organizations, private
sector, local government units and higher education
institutions. That said, coordinating the large scale
implementation of ICT/education initiatives, as well as
related donations and support from partners and key
stakeholder groups, made it difficult to share information
and expertise, coordinate public-private partnerships, and
replicate and scale up successful projects. Many countries
have created a distinct agency to coordinate and implement
ICT/education. In the early stages of the introduction of
ICTs in education in the Philippines, the government largely
resisted this idea, although a number of related oversight
and implementation models were proposed. Absent such an
organization and/or related formal institutional structure
education policymakers, stakeholders and practitioner groups
explored other options.
Citation
“Vergel de Dios, Benjamin. 2016. Building and Sustaining National ICT/Education Agencies; Building and Sustaining National ICT/Education Agencies : Lessons from the Philippines. SABER-ICT Technical Paper Series;. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/26262 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”