Globe, Quezon City empower students and residents with digital tools

Globe is working with the Quezon City government to keep local residents and learners digitally empowered.

The partnership includes the expansion of Globe’s GoWiFi and KonekTayo WiFi as well as the activation of Globe Labs’ SMS API, School Bus WiFi, and Load Up services in the city.

One thousand GoWiFi access points will be deployed in several key establishments in the city—an addition to the 2,000 existing and 1,000 newly on-aired access points. These will be located in select hospitals, barangay halls, supermarkets, malls, police and fire stations, and coffee shops for wider access to QC’s E-Services hub.

QCitizens can connect to GoWiFi with free 30 minutes daily while the QCWiFi will provide an additional free one hour daily. Citizens will just need to register at the QC E-Services site to avail of the additional daily free WiFi.

QC E-Services is an online access to QC government services, making transactions contactless, easier, and faster.

SMS API by Globe Labs, on the other hand, enables the QC Government to send OTP/SMS notifications for its ID registration program and allow electronic payments to the city’s e-services hub.

Meanwhile, KonekTayo WiFi will be expanded to the following sites: Bistekville 4, Bistekville 15, Sitio Pingkian, Republic Residences, and Bagong Lipunan Pag-asa Condominium.

Ensuring that no student gets left behind by online learning, Globe has deployed school buses equipped with special antennas that will provide internet connectivity to teachers and students from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. These buses will be stationed in the following barangays: Sta. Lucia (Aguinaldo Street. cor. Lakandula), Commonwealth (Nokia Street, Dona Nicasia Subdivision), Sauyo, and Pasong Tamo (Marcel Village – Himlayan Road).

Globe has also provided 176,000 data SIM cards for students and 17,582 data SIM cards for elementary school teachers in the city through Load Up, a secure web-based platform that can automatically seed internet prepaid credits to beneficiaries that are part of the Home-Based Learning Program of QC.

In its commitment to keep communities safe from online dangers and threats, Globe is also working with QC in conducting virtual workshops for parents, children, and community leaders through its Digital Thumbprint Program (DTP), which aims to deepen netizens’ knowledge on digital citizenship and cybersafety.

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Source: Speed Magazine PH