Mobile app links rural health workers to city doctors

07/05/2016

MOST government health facilities in the provinces have a shortage of doctors. Health workers who badly need the advice and expertise of medical specialists have to fend for themselves in both routine and emergency situations. Hx Factfinder,…

Lapu schools get digital science library

Norman V. Mendoza 11/15/2015

Seven schools and two institutions in Lapu-Lapu City each received a digital science library from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). The beneficiaries are the Science and Technology Education Center, Felipe F. Matbagon Memorial High School,…

FREE WI-FI AHEAD

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/03/2015

  Gov’t project for public sites in Cebu City But 250 kbps speed too slow for videos, music Want to access Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts or free? Some public places in Cebu City like…

Cebu City is free Wi-Fi beneficiary

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/02/2015

Cebu City is chosen as one of the 967 beneficiary areas of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)’s P1.4 billion free Wi-Fi Internet service initiative. In a letter to Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama, DOST Undersecretary…

Techno centers in all Mandaue barangays

Norman V. Mendoza 06/18/2015

City government partners with Department of Science and Technology for project The 27 barangays in Mandaue City will soon have technology or techno centers. These are areas where people in the barangay especially those underserved or from…

Free Wi-Fi hotspots eyed in Cebu by July

Aileen Garcia-Yap 06/04/2015

Public areas in Class 3 to 6 towns prioritized The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) plans to start setting up free Wi-Fi access points in public areas in Cebu in July, an official said. Cebu is…

Creation of DICT seen to boost digital economy

Aileen Garcia-Yap 06/04/2015

THE creation of a Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) will strengthen the government’s push for a digital economy. Mon Ibrahim, executive director of the ICT Office under the Department of Science and Technology, said his…

SMEs urged to submit tech upgrading proposals

Vanessa Claire Lucero 06/02/2015

DOST allots P20M for small businesses in Cebu The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has called on small and medium enterprises to avail of a government program to adopt technological innovations to improve their products and…

Two USC graduates top chem eng’g exam

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 05/22/2015

Two graduates of the University of San Carlos (USC) ranked among the top 7 successful examinees of the May 2015 chemical engineering licensure examinations. Aljon Mayol Alivio, 22, placed second with a rating of 83 percent while…

E-train for Cebu City

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/07/2015

Route may go farther to Mactan airport; DOST signs agreement with Cebu City gov’t Metro Cebu may see a hybrid electric road train running in its streets by next year. Under an agreement signed yesterday with the…

A bright future looms for mechanical eng’g board top notcher

Apple Ta-as 03/15/2015

After landing fourth place in the nationwide mechanical engineering board exam, 21-year-old Michael Ray Sumalinog Wenceslao keeps busy on a project that could help the environment. He’s taking his master’s degree degree in the University of San…

DOST working on village level early warning

Victor Anthony V. Silva 10/03/2014

To cope with the effects of climate change and prepare for the threat of calamities as disastrous as supertyphoon Yolanda/Haiyan, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is doubling its efforts to equip vulnerable communities with relevant…

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