The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Region VI warmly welcomes the newly appointed Assistant Regional Director for Finance and Administrative Services, Engr. Gerbe B. Dellava. Engr. Gerbe B. Dellava has served as the Provincial Science and Technology Director (PSTD) in Capiz before the appointment. #ScienceForThePeople #DOSTRegion6
KitKontraSakit hygiene kits distributed to Iloilo City quarantine Facilities
The Department of Science and Technology VI, together with its MultiPurpose Cooperative turned over 100 hygiene kits for distribution to Iloilo City quarantine facilities channeled through the Iloilo City Mayor’s office. This donation aims to aid the limited supplies of hygiene kits in quarantine facilities in the city. The kit includes face masks, multivitamins, alcohol,
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DOST VI provides CLEAR monitoring of workforce’s state of health
There is no doubt that the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry has opened various job opportunities and became one of the important revenue earners for the country’s economy. In Iloilo City alone, the number of BPO companies under the Iloilo Federation of IT grew at 69 last 2019 with 26,820 employees. The industry is greatly
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11.7M gov’t assistance to support study of “spirulina” as health supplement
With support from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Region VI, the Applied Research and Innovation Laboratory (ARIL), an industry-based research facility with the funding support of P11.7M from DOST-Business Innovation through Science and Technology (BIST) Program, completed the pilot-scale of producing Spirulina tablet and caplet. Grows in both fresh and saltwater, Spirulina is
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1.4M CEST project to empower conflict-affected community in Aklan
As the country is considered to be a natural disaster-prone with a high incidence of poverty, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Region VI answers the call to address the issues with proper application of science and technology-based interventions to a conflict-affected community in Ibajay, Aklan. Through the department’s Community Empowerment thru Science and
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CEST Program in plight to value farming as noble profession
Considered to be a landlocked community, Brgy. Payauan in Candoni, Negros Occidental boasts of about 2,086 hectares of land area and the potential of growing all types of crops and commodities such as rice, sugarcane, corn, peanuts, ginger, and banana. While all of this sounds good in reality, most of the farmers in the community
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Coffee processing community in NegOcc to benefit the CEST Program
In the mountainous part of the Municipality of E.B. Magalona locates Brgy. Canlusong, a community with an ideal and privileged place to grow coffee trees. With its potential to participate meaningfully in the economy, it faces the challenge of strenuous and costly marketing of their coffee as they are producing hundreds of sacks per harvest
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DOST VI offers iFWD PH program to qualified OFWs
To start the implementation of the Innovations for Filipinos Working Distantly from the Philippines or the iFWD PH Program, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Western Visayas conducted a series of interview to the OFW applicants last April 14, 15, and 21 via teleconference. iFWD Regional Coordinator of DOST VI Ms. May Rose O.
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Orientation on tech assistance for micro entreps set in Aklan
In coordination with Kalibo Federation of Civil Society Organization (KFCSO) and the Local Government Unit of Kalibo, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Western Visayas facilitated an orientation on Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading (SETUP) Program and Packaging and Labeling Services to help the members of KFCSO in accessing the different programs and projects of
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DOST’s Balik Scientist developing ‘kadios’ as skin antibiotic
What is locally considered a minor crop grown in backyards or on a small amount of farm acreage in Panay Island has a very promising anti-bacterial activity against different types of skin diseases. Traditionally, Kadios is a popular, functional Ilonggo food that has long been an ingredient in the Ilonggo cuisine known as “KBL”, a
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