The DOST-developed mobile app called FastPass serves as contact tracing system to allow the documentation of travelers, to filter health status and manage border control by using the QR code to fill out the necessary information particularly on health declaration and check-list.
The DOST now allows a 100-percent remote engagement of Balik Scientists under Short-Term category to ensure the health and safety of both the Balik Scientists and host institutions.
Sen. Franklin Drilon expressed his concern that the National Task Force to End Local Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) has a higher budget of P30 billion compared to the DOST’s 2022 budget of P23.793 billion.
New DOST-TAPI director Marion Ivy D. Decena is one of the first certified patent valuation analysts (CPVA) in the Philippines and is one of the few recognized CPVAs in Southeast Asia.
The main intention of artificial intelligence (AI) is not to take away jobs and livelihood opportunities from Filipinos, but to help them become more efficient and productive in performing their tasks.
The country is now eyeing at developing economical lead-acid batteries with optimal performance capacity as a better alternative energy storage to lithium-ion that can eventually be used for electric vehicles.
The Philippines marked another milestone in its nascent space industry as Maya-3 and Maya-4, the country’s first university-built cube satellites (CubeSats), were released to space from the International Space Station (ISS) on October 6, 2021 at 5:20 in the afternoon.
A collaboration between a local eye center and a Europe-based school has resulted in the first successful use of artificial intelligence (AI) in ophthalmology in the Philippines.
Due to the pandemic and decreasing budget for research and development (R&D), the Philippines fell by a notch from 50th place last year to the 51st spot in the 2021 Global Innovation Index (GII) report.
In a bid to spark the interest of Filipinos in the country’s space programs, the DOST’s Advanced Research Institute launched the ASTI Virtual Reality Simulation mobile app last Wednesday, August 25.
