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Dr. Enrico , leader of the DREAM-LiDAR or the Disaster Risk and Exposure Assessment for Mitigation project of the Department of Science and Technology, shows a copy of the high resolution flood hazard maps of the province of Palawan where 10 out of the 15 river basins of the province of Palawan have been mapped. Dr. Paringit said that mapping will be completed by the end of the year. Aside from identification of safe and risky areas, the DREAM-LiDAR high resolution hazard maps can also be used for other local government projects such as comprehensive land use and tax mapping, among others Receiving the electronic copy of the map is Puerto Prinsesa Mayor Lucilo Bayron as witnessed by DOST Region IV-B Director Ma. Josefina Abilay. (Photo by Ceajay Valerio, S&T Media Service, DOST-STII)   

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The Philippines will host the Global Forum on Research and Innovation for Health 2015 or Forum 2015 on August 24-27, 2015 where over 2,000 delegates from the government, business, non-profit organizations, and academic and research institutions from at least 50 countries will convene to discuss and identify solutions to unmet global health needs.

To be held at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City, Forum 2015 is jointly organized by the Department of Science and Technology through the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) and the Department of Health (DOH) in cooperation with Council on Health Research and Development (COHRED), an international non-government organization that supports health research initiatives of developing countries.

Pres. Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III will keynote the opening ceremony on August 24.

Read more: DOST leads PH in hosting Global Forum on Health

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At first, you might think "I Hear U" is just a textspeak, sounding hip especially for today's text generation. But I Hear U somewhere in Palawan is beyond that. It is an android mobile application to help persons with hearing impairment learn the ropes on finger spelling or communicating using alpha and numerical systems through hand gestures.   

While most teens are busy posting status messages and selfies, Marian Elaine Dechaves and Charmaine Aubrey Galindez are doing something more serious for their age. They hang out longer on their computers, not to post their outfits of the day or OOTDs, throwback Thursday or TBT photos, and hashtags but rather, they are writing program codes which someday could become huge especially in the age of the Internet of Things.

Read more: MIMAROPA pupils develop app for Pinoy PWDs

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Gina P. Lopez, managing director of ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation, singled out a Department of Science and Technology (DOST) program for community empowerment as a way to get the Philippines out of poverty.

Dubbed as Community Empowerment through Science and Technology or CEST, the program is targeting to empower the poorest and most depressed communities in the country, via S&T interventions in health and nutrition, water and sanitation, basic education and literacy, livelihood/economic enterprise development, and disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation.

“We can get our country out of poverty,” said Lopez during the CEST Forum, one of the events during the recently concluded 2015 National Science and Technology Week at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City last July 27.

Read more: CEST program by DOST, a solution to poverty – Gina Lopez