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Don Bosco Communications
and Information Technology Institute launched in
Makati
MAKATI CITY:
February 8th, 2007 -- A teacher
uploading her students' grades using her PDA via the school's WiFi network; a
parent receiving her son's grades on her old mobile phone; a student viewing his
grades in an Internet Café; Fr. Jun Inocencio of ODEA (Office for the
Development of the Educational Apostolate) sporting a smile as he gains access
to consolidated scholastic data in real-time from the different Don Bosco
schools. These and other forms of integrating the (Salesian) work are just
samples of what Don Bosco CITI can deliver.
Launched last
January 24, 2007 in Greenbelt 3, Makati City, Don Bosco Communications and
Information Technology Institute (CITI) is Don Bosco Philippines North
Province's new baby. It is also owned in part by Don Bosco Technical College -
Mandaluyong.
More than just being a centralized ICT
product and service provider for Don Bosco Philippines North Province (FIN), Don
Bosco CITI aims to make FIN a fully-integrated community that moves towards a
common ICT direction. It also aims to lower FIN's ICT Total Cost of Ownership in
the long term by sharing the cost of services by its clients and avoiding
duplication of limited resources. However, the CITI offers modular ICT products
and services to allow its clients to develop at its own pace while being
consistent with FIN's ICT over-all direction.
In its
thrust to help bridge the gap of the digital divide, Don Bosco CITI wishes to
enable smaller settings to gain access to ICT resources and services at the
lowest possible cost. Other thrusts of the CITI include: Collaborate with all
the forces; Focus on core competencies; and Access Don Bosco
anywhere.
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