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Announcements, event notes, and field notes in ECAIR's own voice: milestones, governance lessons, and handover patterns from the build-and-prove work — the full archive.
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ECAIR launches Project Ugnay at the 3rd Joint Educational Trifocal Management Committee Meeting
On July 16 and 17, 2026, ECAIR launched Project Ugnay at the 3rd Joint Educational Trifocal Management Committee Meeting in Baler, Aurora, alongside the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement that operationalizes Project TAHANAN.
Read note →SABAY earns endorsement from speech-language pathologists
Between April 18 and May 15, 2026, the ECAIR team validated SABAY with the Philippine Association of Speech-Language Pathologists, advanced a new set of illustrated assets, and presented the project at the UK-SEA Digital Health Symposium.
Read note →TALAAN advances pre-pilot with school leaders and teacher ideation workshops
Between April 21 and May 12, 2026, Project TALAAN oriented the leaders of its three Las Piñas pilot schools and ran a series of Teacher Ideation Workshops, gathering field-level input on dropout risk indicators and platform design.
Read note →LIGTAS+ earns conditional acceptance in UAT with DRRMS
LIGTAS+ completed User Acceptance Testing with DRRMS on April 19, 2026 and earned conditional acceptance, after debuting to the DepEd Executive Committee on March 31.
Read note →ECAIR turns over TAHANAN Blueprint at inaugural EWDG convening
On April 22, 2026, the ECAIR team turned over the TAHANAN Blueprint during the inaugural convening of the Education and Workforce Development Group (EWDG), setting out a practical path to harmonizing education data across DepEd, CHED, and TESDA.
Read note →ECAIR celebrates the first cohort of its Education AI Research Internship
On April 10, 2026, ECAIR's inaugural Education AI Research Internship concluded with a Discovery Showcase at SEAMEO INNOTECH, marking a step toward building the next generation of AI and data talent for public service.
Read note →SIBOL research guides DepEd's Library Hub investments into a second cycle
On April 10, 2026, ECAIR presented and validated with the Bureau of Learning Resources a refined five-step prioritization methodology for the 2027 Library Hub cycle, building on the SIBOL research that helped shape DepEd's PHP 1-billion 2026 Library Hub allocation.
Read note →ECAIR joins the Singapore AI Safety Red Teaming Challenge 2026
From January 19 to 21, 2026, ECAIR joined the Singapore AI Safety Red Teaming Challenge 2026, a regional exercise hosted by the Infocomm Media Development Authority that brought AI developers, policymakers, linguists, researchers, and safety practitioners across Southeast and East Asia together to stress-test large language models.
Read note →DUNONG strengthens DepEd's school leadership pipeline
In 2025, ECAIR's DUNONG analytics system supported the Bureau of Human Resource and Organizational Development as the National Qualifying Examination for School Heads passing rate rose from 27% in 2024 to 39% in 2025.
Read note →ECAIR marks Year One with a Year-End Presentation to Secretary Angara
In December 2025, ECAIR capped its first full year with the "ECAIR Year One" Year-End Presentation at SEAMEO INNOTECH, where Secretary Sonny Angara and education leaders engaged directly with its AI systems, following the Center's showcase of STRIVE, SALIKSEEK, and TALINO at the DepEd Classroom Summit.
Read note →DepEd launches ECAIR, the country's first AI research center for education
On February 20, 2025, DepEd launched the Education Center for AI Research (ECAIR), the Philippines' first hub dedicated to applying AI to basic education, building on the work begun by CAIR in 2024.
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