City Mayor promotes computer literacy as key to progress

BALANGA CITY, Bataan –  City Mayor Francis Anthony S. Garcia is determined to speed up the promotion of computer literacy perceived crucial in enhancing the component city’s competitiveness in the systematic technology advancement scheme.

With the establishment of the barangay learning hub, a pet project of multi-sectoral coalition of the City, aimed to provide essential and supplemental education, productive approaches to computer utilization and internet accesses are now operational  in the countryside and two public high schools here.

Mayor Garcia, an American-trained computer engineering specialist from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, has enumerated various features  of the program which started from the distribution of 101 sophisticated computers in nine (9) barangay learning hubs  and 75 computers to the City of Balanga National High School (COBNHS).

Speaking before Balanga City High School teachers and students, Department of Education district supervisors, municipal and barangay officials during the simple turnover-over rites of 100 brand-new computer equipment held recently at Balanga City High School compound, Mayor Garcia reiterated that the arrival of the latest computer units would serve as a major instrument in attaining business friendly-environment status of the city government in the high-tech entrepreneurial system.

The 100 computers are donated by the San Miguel  Corporation, the country’s largest food conglomerate  and its subsidiary  Bataan Petron Refinery, one of the top oil refineries to participate in the upgrading the computer proficiency  of the students and residents.

He cited the corporate responsibility gesture   of the two leading food manufacturing and energy producing firms basically illustrates the intensity of the competition level and performance category in the area of information, communication and technology particularly in Central Luzon.

Metro Manila businessmen are keenly evaluating the existing economic policies and incentives given the bright prospect of expanding business process outsourcing industry in the province in three to five years.

Photo courtesy of Mayor Francis Garcia FB page.