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Internet for far-flung areas: Project REIINN breaks ground for first LokaLTE tower in Rizal

Published Jun 3, 2022 02:51 pm

Helping students in their shift to remote learning, the Resilient Education Information Infrastructure for the New Normal (REIINN) project has started construction of the first LokaLTE in San Andres Elementary School, Tanay, Rizal.

DOST Provincial Director Fernando Ablaza (from left), REIINN Technical Lead Philip Martinez, EIAPI President Vic Gruet, Deped-Rizal Education Program Supervisor in Science Robert Dela Cruz, Tanay Municipal Mayor Rex Manuel Tanjuatco, DepEd-Tanay Public Schools District Supervisor Melissa Garrovillas, and Brgy. San Andres Chairperson Darwin Dela Rosa broke ground for LokaLTE tower. (Photo courtesy of DOST-STII / MANILA BULLETIN)

“Department of Science and Technology- Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) initiated the Project REIINN in 2021, believing that through technology-based interventions coupled with appropriate policies, access to the internet and information in unserved and underserved areas will be the new normal,” said DOST Secretary Fortunato T. dela Peña in his message.

Funded by DOST-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD), DOST said that Project REIINN focuses on the development of application frameworks and infrastructures to support the shift to remote learning and to narrow the digital divide in the country.

Construction development and deployment of small-scale, community-operated LokaLTE towers. of LokaLTE towers is one of the project’s initiatives.

At the official groundbreaking ceremony, the Project REIINN team led by Technical Lead Philip Martinez was joined by Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Rizal Provincial Director Fernando Ablaza, Electronic Industries Association of the Philippines, Inc. (EIAPI) Vice President Vic Gruet, Department of Education (DepEd) Rizal Education Program Supervisor in Science Robert Dela Cruz, and Tanay Municipal Mayor Rex Manuel Tanjuatco.

Meanwhile, Martinez reiterated the importance of the project in providing equal access to the internet, thereby levelling the playing field in education.

“May this groundbreaking (activity) be a trigger of many more groundbreakings in unserved and underserved communities in the Philippines, until such time that all students, regardless of where they are, have equitable access, reaping the same benefits of digital learning,” Martinez said.

The project eyes a community in Castillejos, Zambales as its second site for LokaLTE in June 2022.

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