After a year of delay, the government should be ready to distribute next year over 96,000 laptops and desktops through an allocation of P2.6-billion in the 2015 General Appropriations Act (GAA).
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said the P2.6-billion fund is for the 96,000 computers (P1.8 billion) supposed to be distributed March this year and additional units (P800 million) for 2015.
DOST’s Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO) is implementing the project under the Digital Empowerment Fund (DEF).
As the 2014 distribution was not done, because the allocation of P1.8 billion was from the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), the implementation would be done both for the 2014 and 2015 target dates.
ICTO Director Ali Asum, DEF project director, told the Manila Bulletin the DEF project will continue.
“Government workers do not have to worry,” it will push through in 2015,” he said of DEF’s implementation.
The DEF is a three-year project from 2014 to 2016 that aims to provide laptops to those with Salary Grade 4, including teachers, so they can use the gadget in their teaching.
source: Manila Bulletin
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