DAVAO, Apr. 18 The Department of Science and Technology Region XI, together with the Davao City community of innovators, inventors, startups and technopreneurs, welcomes the approval of the landmark ordinance establishing the Davao City Inventions and Innovations Center (DCIIC) during the 14th Regular Session of the 19th City Council of Davao on April 13, 2021.
Authored by Councilor Pilar Braga, chairperson of the Committee on Education, Science and Technology, Art and Culture, the said ordinance seeks to provide a venue where Davao City-based inventors, innovators and startups can access goods, services, and capital so that their inventions and innovations can be fully developed, promoted and funded.
DAVAO CITY – A Davao City-based environmental group called on policymakers to come up with stricter regulations to address plastic pollution as various single-use plastic (SUP) wastes were left on the streets in the aftermath of the flooding here Saturday.
Published January 29, 2021, 1:41 PM
DAVAO CITY – Davao City-based environmental group Interface Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS) found a dead Philippine Sailfin Lizard, considered an endemic species of the Philippines that is already vulnerable to extinction, which was reportedly shot along the riverbanks of Panigan-Tamugan watershed in Baguio District here.
Dead Philippine Sailfin Lizard, or known to locals as “ibid,” was found along the riverbanks of Davao City’s next water source. (Photo courtesy of Atty. Mark Peñalver, IDIS executive director / MANILA BULLETIN)
IDIS executive director Mark Peñalver said, in an interview, that the dead creature, known to locals as “ibid”, was found during a routine river clean-up and brand audit conducted by the environmental group with members of Bantay Bukid last Wednesday, January 27, along the riverbanks of the watershed, considered as Davao’s next water source.
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China-backed Dito Telecommunity Corp. has hired at least nine former military officials, including a retired colonel, in a move to allay lingering fears that the government-chosen third telecommunications player would be used by Beijing to spy on the country.
During a virtual briefing on Thursday, Dito Chief Technology Officer Rodolfo Santiago, himself an ex-general, said hiring retired army men could ease critics’ fears.
He also insisted that ensuring his company’s network would not be used to compromise the country’s security was part of Dito’s commitment to the government.
Santiago also defended the hiring, telling reporters that “if you’re going to scan the local cybersecurity industry, [it’s] true, even in other countries, [that] those that have been with the Armed Forces are the best persons to be utilized for very critical cybersecurity requirements.”