The I-Tech program also allows inventors to borrow up to 85 percent of the total loan amount or a maximum of P12.5 million, or what the borrower's repayment capacity is, whichever is lower.
In a decade, the country is expected to have 380 scientists, engineers, and researchers for every one million Filipinos, the suggested benchmark of the Unesco, a science and technology official said.
Even if the Philippines doesn?t do anything, new innovations from AI, data science, and space technology will eventually become the norm, the DOST official said during the meeting at the WVSU.
Raymond Liboro, assistant secretary of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), has been appointed by Pres. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III as the first commissioner of the newly created National Privacy Commission (NPC).
The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Science High School (DOST-PSHS) System, in partnership with First Pacific Leadership Academy (FPLA) will host the 2nd Philippine International Science Fair (PISF) which will take off this coming June 1, 2015 in Antipolo City.
The Science Education Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-SEI) recently led a brainstorming activity with key science education stakeholders in the country as it aims to review and update the list of priority science and technology (S&T) courses covered in its Scholarship Programs.
DOST?s Starbooks is an offline digital library lodged in a pod, which contains thousands of digitized science and technology resources in various formats such as full textbook titles, livelihood videos, research, and other information materials.
Under the DOST Smarter Philippines Program, a smarter city means that a city?has put in place enough ICT (information communication technology) infrastructure? that are ?instrumented? through the merging of data, ?interconnected? through networks, and ?intelligent? through data trends.
