telecentre.org- Philippines CeC Academy

The telecentre.org-Philippines Community eCentres Academy was born on November 26, 2007, through a Letter of Intent to Collaborate (LoI) signing ceremony that witnessed a strong partnership between telecentre.org and the Commission on Information and Communication Technology, Government of Philippines. As a consortium of ICT4D and CeC capacity building and content development institutions, the role of the Academy was envisaged to setting academic standards for accredited courses aimed at community eCentre managers.

The Academy was set up to develop and offer competency-based training curriculum to support CeC managers with an online assistance facility to promote their active participation in CeC related networking activities. The tPCA piloted its first course on June 15-19, 2009 in a series of foundation courses geared towards professionalizing CeC managers. According to Dr Elizabeth Manugue, a long-standing associate of the Academy in the Philippines, "These courses are aimed to lay the ground for a deeper understanding of CeC knowledge workers and CeC Managers' strategic role in development. These courses also seek to provide an overview of CeC management functions and the ecology of existing CeCs as well as the administration of CeC products and services, while focusing on operations management, financial management, content management, project management for sustainability, and monitoring and evaluation."

Contact: Tess Camba (tesscamba@foo.ncc.gov.ph)