The DOST created the EPDC (Electronics Product Development Center) in response to an industry need for facilities to improve product design, development, test, and to spur even more electronics manufacturing in the country.
The DOST's Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD) said it is looking at two ways to fast-track its technology transfer program to spur the growth of health startups in the country.
Newly appointed DICT assistant secretary Felino Castro V said that while average data connection in the country is at 4 Mbps, the agency is already working on installing free Wi-Fi in public areas across the Philippines that would offer a data connection of at least 10 Mbps.
Dubbed the "University Laboratory for Small Satellites and Space Engineering Systems" or ULyS³ES, the facility is intended to serve as an academic hub for interdisciplinary R&D and instruction innovations in space technology in the Philippines.
Building owners and government agencies can now purchase USHER (Universal Structural Health Evaluation and Recording System), an apparatus developed through a research funding from the DOST.
DOST secretary Fortunato dela Pena also led the groundbreaking and capsule-laying for the establishment of the Synoptic Weather Station in Caipilan, Siquijor to monitor weather conditions and provide information for safety and control for the would-be operation of Siquijor’s international airport.
This is despite the fact that the Philippine Space Agency will be placed under the administrative supervision of the Office of the President (OP) and not as an attached unit of the DOST as originally intended.
This is only the second time, after the 58th IMO in 2017, that all six members of the Philippine team won a medal. The Philippines also ranked 31st out of 112 countries, up from last year’s 38th out of 107 countries.
