SKILLS TRAINING. A total of 31 beneficiaries/scholars of the Perpetual Help Community Cooperative, Inc. in Negros Oriental are signed up for a month-long training on social media marketing and advertising. The technical training, launched in Dumaguete City on Wednesday (Sept. 7, 2022) is done in collaboration with the Department of Information and Communications Technology and the Cooperative Development Authority. (Photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) on Wednesday launched the country's first-ever collaboration with a private entity here for a digitaljobsPH (djPH) technical training. Unlike in the past when the digitaljobsPH program of the DICT was brought to different sectors through government agencies or local government units (LGUs), this time it is now being offered for free to select beneficiaries/scholars of the Perpetual Help Community Cooperative, I
MOU SIGNING. The Perpetual Help Community Cooperative Inc. (PHCCI) signs on Friday (Oct. 15, 2021) a memorandum of understanding with the Cooperative Development Authority and Department of Information and Communications Technology for the digitaljobsPH project. In photo are CDA-Region 7 director Engr. Doreen Ancheta and PHCCI board of directors chair Romulo Amarado (3rd and 4th from left). (Photo courtesy of PHCCI) DUMAGUETE CITY - Key officials of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) on Friday assured Negros Oriental residents of benefiting in the future from a joint job generation project dubbed "digitaljobsPH". CDA Assistant Secretary Vidal Villanueva III, Engr. Doreen C. Ancheta, CDA-Region 7 director; and officer-in-charge regional director Frederick Amores of DICT Regions 7 and 8, gave the assurance during the launching and signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Perpetual Hel
(Infographic courtesy ofPHCCI) DUMAGUETE CITY - The Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) and the Department of Information and Communications (DICT) have tapped a local cooperative here as partner in their joint undertaking for a nationwide digital job generation program. Gracia Nenita Banogon, acting head of the Cooperative Research, Information and Training Section (CRITS) of the CDA in Region 7 (CDA-7), in an interview with the Philippine News Agency on Thursday afternoon said a memorandum of understanding (MOU) will be signed with the Perpetual Help Community Cooperative, Inc. (PHCCI) here on Friday. This will be the first time in the country that the CDA-DICT joint venture on creating digital jobs will partner with a local cooperative, she said. The CDA had earlier signed a memorandum of agreement with the DICT on the latter's digitaljobsPH program that aims to capacitate and empower people in the countryside through training and other activities to enhance their employabil
The Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) has bared plans to create a special type of cooperative federation that would offer e-commerce-related products to accelerate digitization of cooperative operations nationwide. In a news statement, CDA said that it intends to create a special type of secondary cooperative called Technology Service Cooperative (TSC)…