The Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI) of the DOST has developed prototypes of 3D-printed parts for respirators and ventilators, as well as nano-filters for masks and nebulizers.
Although local enterprises can opt for a force majeure defense on failure to deliver any determinate thing or service, it will be a different matter when it comes to payments, according to DivinaLaw.
Aside from preparing emergency relief for their constituents, local government units (LGUs) can now deploy a contact tracing system funded by the DOST called “TanodCovid”.
Volunteers will download an app that works when their devices are otherwise idle or in light use. The app then distributes computational assignments and returns completed calculations to researchers via the IBM cloud.
After exceeding its projected life span of 18 months with four years of journey in space, the country’s first micro-satellite – Diwata-1 – is ending its mission and is expected to burn up as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere.
Ranging from nano-enhanced sanitizers to mobile AI-powered thermal scanners, the technologies are DOST’s quick response to the ongoing pandemic that has endangered the lives of many.
The website features a highly detailed map where users can zoom in or zoom out to see street or satellite views of the general locations and numbers of Covid-19 cases, hospitals, quarantine checkpoints, and other usable data.
The team of UP Diliman mechanical engineering students Patrick Parone and Hannah Ramos won the ‘Schneider Go Green 2020’ country finals for their project called Kislap, a portable water purifier designed to generate electricity through water evaporation.
