All six Philippine youth delegates bagged major awards at the recently concluded 2014 Global IT Challenge (GITC) in Busan Exchange Convention, Busan, South Korea from December 9 – 13, 2014 which coincides with the ASEAN–ROK Commemorative Summit. Nathaniel Edward Q. Dimalanta from the Philippine School for the Deaf (PSD) won the gold award in “eLifeMap...
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Award Recognizing Accessible Websites launched
What better way to announce the new name of the award than to actually give the award itself. Thus, the “Award Recognizing Accessible Websites” or simply called ARAW Awards were given to top-level government agencies that complied with the minimum web accessibility recommended standards last July 17 coinciding with the nationwide celebration of 34th National...
MCCID Participates in Congress Hearing
https://picasaweb.google.com/jojomccid/CongressHearing# The entire MCCID student population trooped to the House of Representatives building to attend the House Committee on Social Services last January 24, 2011 to support the two house bills on telecommunication services for the deaf. MCCID was part of the government group which includes the National Computer Center, National Telecommunications Commission and the...
ADOC-NCC Donates Computers
http://picasaweb.google.com/jojomccid/Adocdonation Taiwan-based Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Digital Opportunity Center (ADOC) through its Philippine government partner, the National Computer Center – Commission on Information and Communications Technology (NCC-CICT) donated eight slightly used branded computers to MCCID College of Technology. In a simple turn-over ceremony held last December 22 at NCC Building, Philippine ADOC Project Manager Mr. Jose...
MCCID Trainor participates in UP Human Rights Discussion
Deaf Trainor Jerome Marzan represented MCCID College during the focus group discussion at the UP Institute of Human Rights last December 1 at the UP Law Center focusing on identifying human rights challenges and barriers to access to justice commonly experienced by persons with disabilities. Atty. Ibarra M. Gutierrez III UP Law School Director invited...
MCCID Supports Discrimination Case against BI Official
MCCID will completely support the case against the Bureau of Immigration Officer Raul Medina should the family of Deaf Franklin Corpuz decides for file a discrimination case. This developed as MCCID Training Director Jojo Esposa volunteered to interpret for Franklin when he was interviewed exclusively by ABS-CBN from October 4 to 6 aired at TV...
Philippine President’s SONA in Sign Language
The first historical State of the Nation Address (SONA) delivered by President Benigno Aquino III also had another first, that of an inset sign language interpretation. This is the first of its kind since SONA has ever been televised. It gives the Deaf people the right to participate in nation building, access to communication, access...
Students Attend Web Accessibility Forum
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 Third year batch 2010 students of MCCID attended the first Web Accessibility Forum conducted by the National Council on Disability Affairs Sub-committee on Information and Communications Technology held last July 20 at Philvolcs Auditorium in UP Diliman Campus, Quezon City. Aside from NCDA, other cooperating agencies include the Commission on Information...
MCCID contributes to Philippine Human Rights Action Plan
http://picasaweb.google.com/jojomccid/NHRAP09 MCCID Training Director Jojo Esposa together with Deaf Coordinator Ervin Reyes and Student Organization President Lucky McGill Paltep were invited to attend the National Human Rights Forum for the formulation of the Second National Human Rights Action Plan (NHRAP) from December 10-11, 2009 at Manila Grand Opera Hotel. The activity was spearheaded by the...
MCCID joins 1st National Disability Summit
MCCID Training Director Jojo Esposa together with MCCID deaf leaders Mark Sampang and Lucky McGill Paltep took part in the 1st National Disability Summit hosted by the National Council on Disability Affairs (NCDA) from September 24-25, 2009 held at the Manila Pavilion Hotel. The two-day event focused on the theme “Accessibility and Development for ALL”....