World Wide Web, here we come! - INQ7.net: "DID you know that less than 40 percent of the country's public high schools have computer laboratories and only 4 percent of these labs are connected to the Internet?

To the rescue comes Project Gilas, an acronym for Gearing up Internet Literacy Access for Students. It is a multi-sectoral initiative that aims to provide Internet access to students and basic Internet literacy programs in all the 5,433 public secondary schools in the Philippines.

The mission is led by a consortium of private corporations and civic organizations in coordination and cooperation with the Department of Education.

Senior high school students in the country's public schools will be the first beneficiaries. Depending on student density and availability of PC workstations, the Internet laboratories may be made available to high school students in lower years as well."