LMIP-Assisted Communities

The LMIP assisted in the set-up, design, and evaluation of seventy (70) Community e-Centers throughout the archipelago.

Ten (10) CeCs are operated by community organizations and non profit institutions, fourteen CeCs (14) are managed by LGUs and forty six (46) are implemented by public schools as part of the CICT’s CeC iSchools component.

Capitalizing on the stakeholders’ strengths and expertise, all LMI CeCs are products of synergies of efforts from the private, civil society and government sectors.

A typical LMI CeC has the following set-up and services:

• Space/Location: a 16 sqm. area inside a barangay, municipal hall, public library, school or training facility
• ICT Infrastructure: 4-5 workstations and an admin desktop PC networked together via LAN cables and routers. Some CeCs have printers, refurbished photocopier, scanner, webcam and digicam, VoIP
• Connectivity: dial-up, wireless broadband, DSL
• Organizational Structure: entrepreneur/NGO model reporting under a multistakeholder steering committee, LGU based managed by the Planning Office, or school based managed by a teacher
• Services offered: surfing, research, encoding, basic computer training, printing, copying, VoIP, word processing and spreadsheets, layouting, website/graphic design, PC troubleshooting, e-government services (for LGU based CeCs), among others.