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DOST Secretary Estrella F. Alabastro (center) and DOST ALS Dir. Elizabeth Fontanilla (5th from the L) launched the BOTIKA NG BAYAN SA DOST with DOSTwide Employees’ Associations Presidents (L-R) Arlene Centeno – STII; Rodel Lara – SIKAT; Rosemarie Olaer – TAPI; Jowi Carteciano – NRCP; (R-L) Teresita Bonifacio – ITDI; Ampy Olarte – SEI; Vilma Rosa Borja – PCASTRD; and Albert Mariño – PCIERD. PGEA National President Esperanza Ocampo (6th from the L) and PITC Pharma Inc. President Rolando Bautista (5th from the R) and PITC Pharma Inc. Vice President Jose Cortez (partly hidden R) witnessed the launching ceremonies.
DOST Secretary Alabastro launched the Botika ng Bayan sa DOST (BnB sa DOST) last February 16, 2009.
Botika ng Bayan is President Arroyo's program of providing cheap and quality medicine to the Filipinos. DOST is the first government agency to adopt the program to benefit the entire system.
BnB sa DOST is a collaborative project of the DOST Management and the DOSTwide Employees’ Associations. It aims to make low priced medicines easily accessible to all DOST employees and in the future to the people of the communities around of the Bicutan Science Community.
DOST Secretary Alabastro said that this project will surely help maintain the “well being of the mind and body” of the entire DOST manpower in its 21 attached agencies. At affordable prices, maintenance drugs for hypertension, diabetes, and other age related ailments would be readily available to the officials and rank-and-file of the department, she added.
On the other hand, the presidents of the 21 DOST Agencies employees’ associations were grateful to Secretary Alabastro and to her management team, particularly to DOST ALS Elizabeth Fontanilla and DOST ASEC Mario P. Bravo, for the logistical and financial support extended for the project’s initial phase.
National President Esperanza Ocampo of the Philippine Government Employees’ Associations and President Rolando Bautista of the PITC Pharma Inc. helped facilitate the implementation of this DOST project.
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The Philippine National Committee for the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) Forum is now accepting applications for the 47th and 48th IATSS Forum to be held in Suzuka, Japan from April to June and September to November 2010.
Read more: Applications for the 47th and 48th IATSS Forum (Leadership Training Program)
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The Industrial Technology Development Institute of the Department of Science and Technology successfully implemented a project entitled “Enhancement of the Technical Capabilities of DOST PSTDs and ARDs through Experiential Learning at the DOST RDIs” that was conceptualized earlier this year.
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Take for instance the story of a promising scientist who worked in a government research facility and developed an eco-friendly and organically grown bacteria-based fertilizer.
It was considered a major breakthrough in agriculture and pest control because it had the potential to practically eliminate the need for chemical pesticides that local farmers have grown dependent to. This unique fertilizer is simple, cheap, and easily commerciable.
The scientist however never even considered earning profit from her creation, fearing it would be pirated if she introduces it to the market. But because of the “publish or perish” culture in her profession, she had to report her findings in peer-reviewed journals.
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The 2009 Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies or APRICOT will be held from February 18 to 27, 2009 at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila, Philippines. This year's host is none other than the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), which is closely working along side with the Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA), a non-profit association that handles APRICOT.
APRICOT is Asia Pacific's premier annual educational conference that provides a neutral forum to advance the skills and understanding necessary to handle a robust Internet infrastructure in the region. It provides a unique opportunity for the region's Internet industry to converge and discuss today's Internet operational issues that affect all of us. Since 1996, APRICOT has been providing a unique and successful educational forum for Internet builders in the Asia Pacific region to learn from their peers and other leaders in the Internet community from around the world. It has established itself as Asia Pacific's premier regional Internet Summit where related organizations come together to meet and host their annual general meetings and other special events.
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