Surfing Under the SunA sustainablecomputer laboratory-Internet café at Cabilao National High School

MARIO GARCIA7 September 2006

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Project aims• Computer literacy

– Basic IT education for High school students

• Adult education / Internet café– The school will be using the computers at school hours only – The rest of the days the use for Internet café or adult education

• Computer laboratory– computer laboratory with 6 PCs, which are networked– All PCs have installed the basic Microsoft Office Products – additionally some e-learning products (IT and non-IT subjects)

• Self-Sufficient / Sustainability– The whole project, shall be running self-sufficient – All costs (maintenance of the computer lab, solar plant and internet connection)

should be covered by the income generated form the internet cafe

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Project partners and responsibilities

• Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE) – Technical support – Installation of Computer Laboratory – Training of the teachers – Backup of technical support when project is implemented

• German Development Service (DED)– Project leading and -management – Project cost management – Contacts to industry

• Mayor of Loon / High School– Infrastructure (Room for battery bank; computer laboratory etc.)– Wage for person running the internet cafe – Point out a person who runs the internet café

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Project success factors• Build up a Committee

– Mayor of Loon– Principal– PTCA President– Tourism Representative– Treasurer– CITE/DED Representative

• Evaluation and Monitoring– Every month project meetings

were held – Income / Expenses evaluation – Project enhancements and

problems

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Income

Expenses

Sustainability

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Beach ResortsInternetStudents

School

Tourists/Locals

InternetProvider

Flat rate

MaintenanceSavings Computerlab

2000 PhP1494 PhP

3600 PhP

2000 PhP

980985 PhP

Bank

Evaluation result after 1 year operation

Statistics

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1st YEAR - Income/Expenses/ Overflow per month

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Income Expenses Overflow

Statistics

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Total users (1st year)

23 2133 29 25

4426 27

14 19 13 15 13

7

1511 13

27

34 37

20 1011 15 13

18

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20

40

60

80

avg Sep 04* Oct 04 Nov 04 Dec 04 Jan 05 Feb 05 Mae 05 Apr 05 May 05 Jun 05 Jul 05 Aug 05

locals tourists

Project results

• Computer literacy– 90% of students are IT literates– School ranked 13 out of 105 (before project start 85) – Teachers use internet for research– Barangay papers are printed and done in Comp.lab

• Indirect results– Small projects have been set up (water collection)– New school building in place – Sterngthen “self-esteem” of Islanders

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Last word

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Strengthen the communities and involve them from the project start on …

… and they will be successfull

Thanks to …

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The solar powered Computer Laboratory is made possible for the people of Cabilao Island through the consolidated efforts of the Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE) and the German Development Service (DED) with funding

assistance from the GATE-program/Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and the Municipality of Loon, Bohol