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NORMINET, which stands for Northern Mindanao Information Network is a collaborative project among Regional Development Council (RDC-10) member agencies/units with the goal of setting up an Internet domain for Northern Mindanao government and non-governmental organizations.

Conceptualized and owned by RDC-10 in 1997, the project took off in 1998 with an initial funding from the Department of Science and Technology, Regional Office 10. A Mail and Web Server was purchased for the project and was co-located in one of the local Internet Service Providers. Currently, NORMINET's servers are maintained by Websprinter Cable Internet.

The norminet.org.ph domain is paid up by the Regional Development Council and its servers are open for hosting webpages of government and RDC-NGO member agencies/units/offices in Northern Mindanao without cost. E-mail accounts can also be provided to the same entities for free.

At the moment, the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA-10), Regional Office No.10, as secretariat of the RDC, develops and maintains the NORMINET mother homepage (see webteam). It also coordinates with the local government units and other national government agencies at the regional level in the updating of the NORMINET information.

While NEDA-10 oversees the implementation of the NORMINET homepage, its contents are not entirely done by the NEDA/RDC staff. We intend to make the NORMINET as a portal to regional information and thus encourage every major institution in the region to develop their own websites and either link it to or publish it in the NORMINET server.