SECTOR: Education
SONA YEAR: 2022
Provide internet and electronic devices so children can participate fully
PROMISE STATUS - DATE: In progress as of 07/17/2023
- DepEd partnered with the National Development Company and ABC Tech Ventures, Inc. in May to provide tablets for school children. The partnership aims to limit the use of physical textbooks and merge them into one device, with parental controls to keep children from accessing inappropriate content online.
- Preliminary data from DepEd showed that as of May 2023, at least 38,194 schools have received learning resources out of the 44,984 targeted for 2022. These resources are worksheets, self-learning modules, and devices like tablets and smartphones used for the adopted learning delivery mode in public schools.
- Central Visayas and Central Mindanao achieved full distribution to all 6,014 target schools in the regions.
- The CAR (4,048 beneficiaries) and Western Visayas (1,844 beneficiaries) exceeded their target number of school beneficiaries.
- Region IV-A (CALABARZON) showed the lowest distribution rate to target schools, with only 30% or 1,071 out of 3,545 school beneficiaries reached.