DepEd Computerization Program (Day 20)
by Rey Laguda(This is the 20th day of 50-day journey of DepEd Undersecretary Rey Laguda as being serialized here with his permission, culled from his Facebook account - Blogger/owner)
I had mentioned in a previous post that the Department of Education ramped up its investments for the DepED Computerization Program (DCP) for schools. In 2015 and 2016, the budget has now reached P6 billion per year. But it is also important to highlight different components in the implementation that strengthened our approach to computerization.
The deployment strategy was revised to reflect changes in assumptions and targets. DepEd set an ambitious target of covering all elementary and high schools with a 5-year replacement period. Schools without electricity were given allocation based on a configuration agreed upon with the Department of Energy. We also indexed provision to enrollment where bigger enrollment receive more packages based on a defined ratio (e.g. one package of computers per six sections).
