Smart’s Batibot app nominated for global award
The Batibot mobile application co-developed by Smart Communications has been shortlisted for the Best Mobile Innovation for Education or Learning citation of the prestigious Global…
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More than a sports league: Season 17 of Cesafi brain wars opens
AFTER the athletic and physical contests, it’s now time for a contest of different skills sets as the 2016-2017 season of the Cebu Schools Athletic…
Smart innovation improves delivery of rural health services
Digitizing healthcare with SHINE OS+ Dr. Mimi Bondoc, municipal health officer of Zarraga, Iloilo, has worked in public health service for the past 26 years,…
Do you want to build Android apps? Learn how through TESDA-Smart online course
Aspiring developers can now learn how to build Android mobile applications at no cost, via an online course available on the website of the Technical…
Smart nominated as CSR company of the year
PLDT mobile unit Smart Communications is shortlisted by the prestigious Asia CEO Awards for the Corporate Social Responsibility Company of the Year. The Asia CEO…
Globe launches free eLibrary to benefit over 15 million public school students nationwide
Over a thousand educational e-books for K-12 learning will be made available to over 15 million public elementary and high school students and some 500,000…
Smart calls for partners to bring digital learning to schools without electricity
Eleven-year-old Sheran Bueramo walks through hills and forests to go to school in Tanay Rizal in pursuit of his dream to be an engineer someday….
PLDT Gabay Guro gathers 20,000 teachers in festival to honor country’s educators
ON the eve of #TeacherFest2016, teacher Chita Mejia was told by her husband, “don’t go home without the key to that house they are giving…
PLDT Gabay Guro continues to soar higher heights
Nine years ago, a small group of like-minded PLDT executives banded together over coffee for an advocacy for teachers. With a common dream of being…
4 Cebu schools get tablets, gadgets, connectivity under PLDT, ACC program
Four public schools in Cebu Province benefitted from the recent holding of the Asian Carriers Conference (ACC) 2016 in Lapu-Lapu City, having been picked as…
Teachers attend Smart-run technopreneurship training program in Cebu
Tagbilaran City in Bohol is gateway to such top tourism attractions as the Chocolate Hills and the white sand beaches of Panglao, but it is…
Smart makes Fortune magazine’s ‘Change the World’ list
Top international business magazine Fortune included Philippine mobile leader Smart Communications in its list of 50 companies around the world that are creating “important social…
Power Mac Center partners with University of Visayas New School of Art & Design
Premium Apple reseller Power Mac Center recently signed a partnership with the University of Visayas New School of Art & Design (UVNS) to strengthen the…
Smart’s mobile digital lab for preschoolers wins award in Singapore
Smart TechnoCart – a mobile digital laboratory donated to public schools to develop literacy among kindergarten students – won the Social Contribution Award at the…
OLX, PPCRV partner to promote responsible voting
As part of its commitment to promote responsible voting among Filipinos, OLX partnered with the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), the citizen arm…
Carmudi Philippines picks son of fisherman and vendor as first scholar
Carmudi Philippines, the leading online vehicle platform in the country, has selected the son of a fisherman and a vendor as the first sole recipient of its scholarship program. Aljohn Torreta, a senior student from the University of the Philippines Visayas taking up a BA in Communications and Media Studies, was chosen from a highly competitive batch of Cum Laude standing students from different universities who participated nationwide.
Jpark Island Resort lights up tree, brings joy to disadvantaged kids
This Christmas, Cebu beach resort Jpark Island Resort and Waterpark has a simple wish and that is to to lighten and brighten lives. As the resort marked the start of the Christmas season by lighting up its tree last Friday, December 4, it treated disadvantaged kids from the Home Care Foundation in Lapu-Lapu City to a day of fun and treats.
CIC-Cebu to stage Sound of Music
After giving a taste of Chinese in its The Flower Drum Song last December 2014, the Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion (CIC)–Cebu this time will wow Cebuanos with another Rodgers and Hammerstein musical: The Sound of Music.
DepEd integrates Smart video materials into disaster preparedness education
“Maging Laging Handa,” a series of disaster-readiness videos developed by Smart Communications (Smart), has been distributed to public elementary schools nationwide in support of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) initiative to integrate Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the education curriculum.
Eats Meets West showcases the best of Midwest Cebu towns
Crabs simmered humba style, skewered squid cubes turned golden brown on a clay grill, and native chicken cooked in fermented coconut juice as five towns in midwestern Cebu prepared their entries for the Eats Meets West culinary competition held in Tabuelan.