The 48-hour hackathon gathered over 90 IT developers, designers, students, data experts, disaster experts, and ordinary citizens under one roof to collaborate in teams and develop locally relevant Web and mobile applications to help solve Disaster Risk Management (DRM) challenges.
The DOST, through the Information and Communications Technology Office (ICT Office), has started a series of start-up workshops this year, which will be held in various cities of Lingayen, Iligan, Tuguegarao, Naga, Dumagete, and General Santos City.
Ambassador to Malaysia Eduardo Malaya, however, said that based on the country?s laws, franchise from Congress would be required if the operation of a radio frequency is intended for commercial purposes.
Bluetooth shipments broke an annual two billion shipments in 2012 and are set to surpass three billion shipped during 2015 and four billion during 2018, according to analyst firm ABI Research.