Digital public goods (DPGs) are digital tools that can be used to address key development and humanitarian challenges in different countries and contexts. They can be software, content, or services, but all have to demonstrate the use of an approved open license that allows them to be modified or built on by other developers to meet context-specific needs or, where able and appropriate, serve outside their intended use.

As the country braces for the impacts of storm surges and tsunamis being one of the longest coastline in the world, the country’s first coastal engineering and management research and development center will soon rise in Ilocos region through the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST’s) Science for Change Program (S4CP) – Niche Center in the Regions (NICER).

Unleashing their creativity to inspire Filipinos to pursue science and research, an engineering college student from Mapua University bagged the first-ever #PinoyInnovator TikTok Hashtag Challenge.

To jumpstart the Philippine economy and help it bounce back from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Science and Technology Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST PCIEERD) is pouring in PHP43 million as research and development grant 14 startup companies.

Filipinos can now reduce their electricity bill and save more money using a Filipino-developed smart energy analytics platform.

Achieving sustainability in the minerals industry and charting a greener community, researchers from UK and Philippines bagged research grants to facilitate and develop innovative solutions that can promote responsible mining and maximize value-adding from minerals.

Researchers from the Technological Institute of the Philippines (TIP) have developed a battery that lights up the path of fisherfolks and cleans the polluted water at the same time.

Aiming to upskill science researchers on publishing their work, the Department of Science and Technology Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development and global scientific publication aggregator Elsevier trained 4,000 scientists and engineers from 26 countries on using the scientific search engine.

As the Philippines commemorate the National Innovation Day, the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) unveiled Thursday (April 22) 100 completed innovative projects aimed at helping Filipinos through research, development, and innovation.

From applications in agriculture to the education sector, the Department of Science and Technology Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development launched on Thursday nine (9) new projects on artificial intelligence (AI) research and development aimed at spurring growth in this emerging industry in the Philippines.