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The latest IT and advanced science books may now be accessed by students and researchers at the Department of Science and Technology’s information agency. Located at the DOST Complex in Bicutan, Taguig City, Metro Manila, the Science and Technology Information Institute (STII) recently acquired the library collection of the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD).

With the transfer of the books and materials from PCIEERD to STII, the latter further beefed up its already vast selection of science and technology (S&T) resources being the central library of the DOST system.

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By February 2014, expect the long queues for government transactions to start disappearing as PhPay – an Internet-based electronic payment facility developed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) – is expected to go live by that month.

This was revealed during the year-end activity of the Integrated Government Philippines iGovPhil) Project last December 11, 2013 at Ayala Land Techno-Hub in Quezon City.

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Welcome 2014 to the rhythm of one common beat.

The country’s network giants are set to synchronize their timepieces with the official Philippine Standard Time (PhST) in greeting the New Year after consultations with officials from the Department of Science and Technology led by Secretary Mario G. Montejo.

President Benigno Aquino III signed into law Republic Act 10535 or the Philippine Standard Time Act of 2013 requiring all national and local government offices as well as broadcasting organizations to display PhST as provided by the DOST’s Philippine Atmosperic, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration or PAGASA, the country’s official timekeeper.

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Department of Science and Technology Secretary Mario Montejo is all ears as rehab czar Ping Lacson examines the Tacloban City map showing the damages wrought by Super Typhoon Yolanda. In this meeting, held recently at the University of the Philippines-National Engineering Center, Engr. Louie Favila presented her team’s damage assessment on Tacloban City based on the map generated through the project called Disaster Risk and Exposure Assessment for Mitigation-Light Detection and Ranging or DREAM-LiDAR. Said project, a component of DOST’s- Project NOAH or the Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards, develops flood hazard maps using LiDAR technology, with priority on the 18 major river basins in the country. (Photo by Henry A. de Leon/Text by Framelia V. Anonas, S&T Media Service)