Philippines Congress opens ICT center

12.04.2006
In a move to computerize the entire operations of Congress, the House of Representatives in partnership with Microsoft Corp. Philippines opened an information and communications technology (ICT) e-Learning Center.

The ICT center is located at the ground floor of the House's main building near the session hall at the Batasan Hills in Quezon City--dubbed as the ICT capital of the Philippines.

Mark Yambot, corporate affairs director of Microsoft Philippines, said the center has 16 personal computers equipped with Microsoft Windows operating systems and Microsoft Office applications.

A total of 30 employees in Congress were honored in the center's launching being the first graduates of the program "train-the-trainer" computer course at the National Computer Center. The majority of the graduates also received the Microsoft Office Specialist Certificate. The employees shall serve as trainers at the ICT center.

House ICT Committee chairman Congressman Simeon Kintanar led the program together with House Speaker Jose De Venecia who presented the center.