Philippines Projects

From 2006 to 2020, Reneal installed 36 computer labs in public schools on the island of Cebu in the Philippines.  Because a major government program is now providing computers to public schools, Reneal has ceased operations in the Philippines as of the end of 2021.

Our work began in the Philippines in 2006 at Compostela National High School (CNHS) in Cebu.  In March of 2013, all of the computers were upgraded to the newest version of the Linux Ubuntu operating system.  In February of 2019, extensive upgrades were performed on all three of the Reneal servers at Compostela NHS.
 
The Reneal IEO system was installed at seven new schools in the Philippines in 2014.  See the 2014 plan here and 2014 hardware request here.  A blog post summarizing the 2014 work is here. 

We returned in 2015 and installed the system at seven new schools in Cebu.  We also did updates at each of the eight prior schools and provided additional computers for four of the 2014 schools.  The 2015 plan is here.  The 2015 effort culminated on July 6th with the first-even Cebu Open Source Software Championship -- see the blog post here.

Ten new schools were added in Cebu in 2016.  The project plan for March 2016 is here, and you can check out the summary of completed work here.  We headed back to Cebu in September, and the project plan for September is here.  You can check out the summary of completed work here.

In 2017 we were back in Cebu.  Two new Reneal systems were added, and thanks to Free Geek in Portland, Oregon, we were able to replace many old CRT monitors with more efficient flat panel displays.

Early 2018 brought installations at Compostela Science and Technology High School and in two computer labs at Cebu Technological University in Carmen. These were our first tertiary-level installations.  Later in 2018, our team installed computer labs Cantumog National High School in Carmen, Calero Integrated School in Liloan, and in libraries at CTU Carmen and Daanbantayan National High School.

In 2019, a Reneal computer lab was installed in the library at Compostela Science and Technology High School. 

2020 brought a Reneal computer lab to the library at Bakhawan National High School in Daanbantayan, Cebu.

In November of 2021, Reneal’s Board of Directors voted to end Reneal’s long-standing computerization program in the Philippines as of the end of 2021.  About the time Reneal began expanding its program in Cebu, the Philippines Department of Education initiated the DepEd Computerization Program (DCP) with the intention of providing schools with ICT resources.  With the widespread distribution of government-sponsored computer equipment to public high schools, it was found that Reneal’s labs were no longer meeting the needs of the schools.  When the pandemic hit in early 2020, in-class teaching ceased, exacerbating the lack of usage.  In late 2020 about half of the computer labs were deactivated, and the rest were deactivated in December of 2021.