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“The needs and opportunities are better known at the region, province, town, and community level”, Secretary Fortunato T. de la Peña said in his concluding remarks at the High-Level Policy Dialogue on Inclusive Innovation held on 17 September 2021.

The Dialogue titled “Accelerating COVID-19 Recovery through Inclusive Innovation” was jointly organized by the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It was participated in by high-level officials from the Philippine Government including those from the Offices of the President’s Cabinet Secretary Karlo Alexei Nograles, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, Senator Juan Edgardo Angara, and the DOST Secretary.

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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), despite dropping one rank at 51st in the Global Innovation Index (GII) for 2021 from last year’s 50th, maintains its strong bearing that “it remains committed in bringing science closer to society, empowering Filipino-made breakthroughs and innovations to increase productivity and drive prosperity.”

World Intellectual Property Organization Assistant Director General Marco Aleman, emphasized that the country’s 51st ranking puts the Philippines “together with China, Turkey, Vietnam, and India as part of the group of the only five countries, which made significant progress in the GII innovation rankings overtime.”

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The resource speakers on the 4th episode of DOST-NRCP’s Expert Class: Vaccines and Vaccination. (Photo Credit: DOST-NRCP’s Expert Class webinar) 

“The longer we wait to get vaccinated, we are giving more time for the virus to mutate.” 

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(In this photo, from top left clockwise: Bizooku Philippines President Alejandro James A. Chiongbian, DOST-ASTI Director Dr. Franz A. de Leon, Bizooku Philippines Chief Operating Officer Zar Castro, and DOST-ASTI Chief Science Research Specialist Joanna G. Syjuco.)

As part of its aim to improve business and government agency efficiencies through the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), a research and development institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), has signed a 3-year partnership with Bizooku Philippines last 27 August 2021.