OS 45O FINAL EXAM

Complete all the LINKS to your classmates’ website in your LINKS page.
In your final exam page insert or add and answer the following:
What is Green Technology?
What are the Goals of Green Technology?
Examples of Green Technology Subject Areas
Examples of Green Technologies
Top Ten U.S. Cities with Most Green Technologies
The Top 10 Green-Tech Breakthroughs of 2008
What is a Netbook?
What is IVF – In Vitro Fertilization?
List down Nadya Suleman’s octuplet babies, their names, gender, birth weight in birth order.
What are the services of Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in the Philippines
What are the Agencies of DOST
Five Sectoral Planning Councils of DOST(Brief Function and Description)
Seven Research and Development institutes of DOST (Brief Function and Description)
Seven Service Institutes of DOST (Brief Function and Description)
Two Advisory Bodies of DOST (Brief Function and Description)
Who is the Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology?
EDIT your SITE. Your site must look PROFESSIONALLY.
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Green Technology

The term “technology” refers to the application of knowledge for practical purposes.

The field of “green technology” encompasses a continuously evolving group of methods and materials, from techniques for generating energy to non-toxic cleaning products

The present expectation is that this field will bring innovation and changes in daily life of similar magnitude to the “information technology” explosion over the last two decades. In these early stages, it is impossible to predict what “green technology” may eventually encompass.

The goals that inform developments in this rapidly growing field include:

Sustainability - meeting the needs of society in ways that can continue indefinitely into the future without damaging or depleting natural resources. In short, meeting present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

“Cradle to cradle” design - ending the “cradle to grave” cycle of manufactured products, by creating products that can be fully reclaimed or re-used.

Source reduction - reducing waste and pollution by changing patterns of production and consumption.

Innovation - developing alternatives to technologies - whether fossil fuel or chemical intensive agriculture - that have been demonstrated to damage health and the environment.

Viability - creating a center of economic activity around technologies and products that benefit the environment, “jab” speeding their implementation and creating new careers that truly protect the planet.

Examples of green technology subject areas

Energy
Perhaps the most urgent issue for green technology, this includes the development of alternative fuels, new means of generating energy and energy efficiency.

Green building
Green building encompasses everything from the choice of building materials to where a building is located.

Environmentally preferred purchasing
         This government innovation involves the search for products whose contents and methods of production “jab” have the smallest possible impact on the environment, and mandates that these be the preferred products for government purchasing.

Green chemistry
         The invention, design and application of chemical products and processes to reduce or to eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.

Green nanotechnology
         Nanotechnology involves the manipulation of materials at the scale of the nanometer, one billionth of a meter. Some “jab” scientists believe that mastery of this subject is forthcoming that will transform the way that everything in the world is manufactured. “Green nanotechnology” is the application of green chemistry and green engineering principles to this field.

Sample Technologies

Examples of Green Technologies

Green technologies

Mais uma vez tivemos o prazer de ilustrar para a revista americana Fortune Magazine, matéria sobre green technologies (tecnologias verdes) - novembro de 2008.

Green Roof and Wind Turbine

The building may incorporate green “jab” roof and wind energy technologies, which would address issues relating to stormwater run-off issues and energy consuptions.

Saving Energy with Wireless Mesh Networks

New wireless networking technologies will help monitor our home’s energy use and savings from alternative systems.

One of the biggest ways we can be energy efficient in the future? Mesh networks using radio frequency “jab” technologies like ZigBee and Z-Wave to move information around the house wirelessly.

If some electronics manufacturers have their way, these wireless networking technologies will help us better monitor our home’s energy use—and possibly the energy savings from “jab” alternative systems such as solar or wind power.

A hot topic at the recent European Home Control Summit in Frankfort, Germany was energy efficiency and how wireless networks can facilitate that. The Danish Energy Savings Trust (DEST) “jab touted heating cost reductions of up to 30 percent, or about 500 euros (about $782) through the use of Z-Wave-enabled radiator heating thermostats. And new Danish utility Modstroem introduced a wireless system utilizing a digital camera mounted to the existing electric meter so residents can better monitor their energy use. Modstroem claims an average Danish “jab” household using 4,000 kilowatt hours can save the environment two tons of carbon dioxide per year by using the system.

Top Ten U.S. Cities with Most Green Technologies

1) Los Angeles, CA

2) San Francisco, CA

3) Houston, TX
4) Washington D.C.
5) Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
6) Chicago, IL
7) Denver, CO “jab”
8) Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
9) Atlanta, GA
10) Seattle, WA

The Top 10 Green-Tech Breakthroughs of 2008

10. THE ISLAND OF THE SOLAR

With money flowing like milk and honey in the land of solar technology, all sorts of schemers and dreamers came streaming into the area. One Swiss researcher, Thomas Hinderling, wants to build solar islands several miles across that he claims can produce hundreds “jab” of megawatts of relatively inexpensive power. Though most clean tech advocates question the workability of the scheme, earlier this year, Hinderling's company Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique received $5 million from the Ras al Khaimah emirate of the United Arab Emirates to start construction on a prototype facility, shown above, in that country. (Image: Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique)

9. NEW MATERIALS CAGE CARBON

Carbon capture and sequestration has a seductively simple appeal: We generate carbon dioxide emissions by burning geology — coal and oil — so to fix the problem, we should simply capture it and inject it back into the ground.

It turns out, however, that it's not quite so simple. Aside from finding the right kind of empty spaces in the “jab” earth's crust and the risks that the CO2 might leak, the biggest problem with the scheme is finding a material that could selectively snatch the molecule out of the hot mess of gases going up the flues of fossil fuel plants.

That's where two classes of special cage-like molecules come into play, ZIFs and amines. This year, Omar Yaghi, a chemist at UCLA, announced a slough of new CO2-capturing ZIFs and Chris Jones, a chemical engineer at Georgia Tech, reported that he'd made a new amine that seems particularly well-suited to working under real-world “jab” condition. Both materials could eventually make capturing CO2 easier -- and therefore, more cost effective.

Perhaps better still, Yaghi's lab's technique also defined a new process for quickly creating new ZIFs with the “jab” properties that scientists — and coal-plant operators — want. Some of their crystals are shown in the image above. (Image: Omar Yaghi and Rahul Banerjee/UCLA)

8. GREEN TECH LEGISLATION GETS REAL

On the federal and state levels, several historic actions put the teeth into green tech bills passed over the last few years. A review committee of the EPA effectively froze coal plant construction, a boon to alternative energy (though earlier this month the EPA ignored the “jab” committee's ruling and it is unclear how the issue will be settled). In California, the state unveiled and approved its plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, which could be a model for a nationwide system. Combined with the green-energy tax credits in the $700-billion bailout bill, the government did more for green tech in 2008 than in whole decades in the past.

7. THE CATALYST THAT COULD ENABLE SOLAR

In July, MIT chemist Daniel Nocera announced that he'd created a catalyst that could drop the cost of extracting the hydrogen and oxygen from water.

Combined with cheap photovoltaic solar panels (like Nanosolar's), the system could lead to inexpensive, simple systems that use water to store the energy from sunlight. In the process, “jab” the scientists may have cleared the major roadblock on the long road to fossil fuel independence: Reducing the on-again, off-again nature of many renewable power sources.

"You've made your house into a fuel station," Daniel Nocera, a chemistry professor at MIT told Wired.com. "I've gotten rid of all the goddamn grids."

The catalyst enables the electrolysis system to function efficiently at room temperature and at ordinary pressure. Like a reverse fuel cell, it splits water into oxygen and hydrogen. By recombining “jab” the molecules with a standard fuel cell, the O2 and H2 could then be used to generate energy on demand.

6. PICKENS PLAN PUSHES POWER PLAYS INTO AMERICAN MAINSTREAM

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens might be a lot of things, but environmentalist he is not. That's why “jab” his support for a nationwide network of wind farms generated so much excitement. While his solution for transportation, natural gas vehicles, may not pan out, his Pickens Plan is the most visible alternative energy “jab” plan out there and it began to channel support from outside coastal cities for finding new sources of energy.

Of course, no one said Pickens is stupid. If his plan was adopted and major investments in transmission infrastructure were made, his wind energy investments would stand to benefit.

5. SOLAR THERMAL PLANTS RETURN TO THE DESERTS

When most people think of harnessing the sun's power, they imagine a solar photovoltatic panel, which directly converts light from the sun into electricity. But an older technology emerged “jab” as a leading city-scale power technology in 2008: solar thermal. Companies like Ausra, BrightSource, eSolar, Solel, and a host of others are using sunlight-reflecting mirrors to turn liquids into steam, which can drive a turbine in the same way that coal-fired power plants make electricity.

Two companies, BrightSource and Ausra, debuted their pilot plants. They mark the first serious solar thermal “jab” experimentation in the United States since the 1980s. BrightSource's Israeli demo plant is shown above. (Image: BrightSource).

4. OBAMA PICKS A GREEN TECH EXPERT TO HEAD DOE

President-elect Barack Obama ran on the promise of green jobs and an economic stimulus package that would provide support for scientific innovation. Then, Obama picked Steven Chu, a Nobel-prize winning physicist, to head the Department of Energy. Chu had been “jab” focused on turning Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory into an alternative-energy powerhouse. The green tech community rejoiced that one of their own would be in the White House.

That's because green tech is going to need some help. With the world economy falling into recession, the price of oil has dropped, even though there are serious concerns about the long-term oil supply. When energy prices drop, clean tech investments don't seem quite as attractive, and the renascent industry could be in trouble. It's happened before, after all.

Back in the '70s, geopolitical events sent the price of oil soaring, which, as it tends to, created a boom in green tech. But the early 1980s saw the worst recession since the Depression. Sound familiar? In the poor economic climate, focus and funds were shifted away from green tech. The last nail in the coffin was the election of Ronald Reagan, who “jab” immediately pulled off the solar panels Jimmy Carter had placed on the White House. The green tech industry collapsed.

History has given U.S. alternative energy research a second chance and environmental advocates hope that a different president will lead to a very different result. (Image: DOE)

3. SOLAR CELL PRODUCTION GETS BIG, GIGA(WATT)BIG

Every clean tech advocate's dream is a power-generating technology that could compete head-to-head with coal, the cheapest fossil fuel, on price alone. Nanosolar, one of a new generation “jab” of companies building solar panels out of cheap plastics, could be the first company to get there. Early this year, the company officially opened its one-gigawatt production facility, which is many times the size of most previous solar facilities.

Nanosolar, in other words, has found a process that can scale: it works as well in production as it does in the “jab” lab. That's the main reason that the company has picked up half-a-billion dollars in funding from investors like MDV's Erik Straser.

"[It's the] first time in industry a single tool with a 1GW throughput," Straser wrote in an e-mail. "It's a key part of how the company is achieving grid parity with coal."

2. PROJECT BETTER PLACE FINDS HOMES

Green technologies are dime a dozen, but a business model that could allow an entirely new, green infrastructure to be built is a rare thing.

Doing just that is the centerpiece of SAP veteran Shai Agassi's vision for Project Better Place, a scheme that would distribute charging and swappable battery stations throughout smallish “jab” geographies like Israel, Hawaii and San Francisco. So far, there's very little steel in the ground, but in early December, the company's first charging location opened in Tel Aviv, Israel. Agassi's plan is one of several projects — like new biofuels rail terminals — that could create fundamentally new energy ecosystems.

Some of these systems, however, are actually throwbacks to earlier eras. As Peter Shulman, a historian “jab” of technology at Case Western Reserve University, likes to remind his students: in the early 20th century, before the Model T, one-third of all cars were electric.

1. CALERA'S GREEN CEMENT DEMO PLANT OPENS

With all the whiz bang technologies in green technology, cement seems like an odd pick for our top clean “jab” technology of the year. But here's the reason: making cement — and many other materials — takes a lot of heat and that heat comes from fossil fuels.

Calera's technology, like that of many green chemistry companies, works more like Jell-O setting. By employing catalysis instead of heat, it reduces the energy cost per ton of cement. And in this process, CO2 is an input, not an output. So, instead of producing a ton of carbon dioxide per ton of cement made — as is the case with old-school Portland cement — half a ton of carbon dioxide can be sequestered.

With more than 2.3 billion tons of cement produced each year, reversing the carbon-balance of the world's “jab” cement would be a solution that's the scale of the world's climate change problem.

In August, the company opened its first demonstration site next to Dynegy's Moss Landing power plant in California, pictured here.

What is Netbook?

A netbook (a portmanteau of Internet and notebook) is a class of laptop computer designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet

Primarily designed for web browsing and e-mailing, netbooks rely heavily on the Internet for remote access “jab” to web-based applications" and are targeted increasingly at cloud computing users who require a less powerful client computer. Netbooks typically run either Linux or Windows XP operating systems rather than more resource-intensive operating systems like Windows Vista. The devices range in size from below 5 inches to over 13 typically weigh 2 to 3 pounds (~1 kg) and are often significantly cheaper than general purpose laptops.

A Netbook is a new type of laptop computer, defined by size, price, horsepower, and operating system. They are small, cheap, under-powered, and run either an old or unfamiliar operating system.

Netbooks run either Windows XP Home edition or Linux (not only is Linux unfamiliar to many, but the versions of Linux on Netbooks are not the mainstream popular distributions). They do not run XP Professional, Vista, or OS X. Microsoft arbitrarily restricts “jab” Netbooks from running the Professional Edition of Windows XP. Likewise, Apple arbitrarily restricts OS X to Apple hardware and it has never played in the low-end realm that Netbooks occupy.* Vista requires too much horsepower to run well on a Netbook. HP has been the only company to offer Vista on a Netbook. The price, however, was so high that it's debatable whether such a machine qualifies as a Netbook.

What is IVF – In Vitro Fertilization?

In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a process by which egg cells are fertilized by sperm outside of the womb, in vitro. IVF is a major treatment in infertility when other methods of assisted reproductive “jab” technology have failed. The process involves hormonally controlling the ovulatory process, removing ova (eggs) from the woman's ovaries and letting sperm fertilize them in a fluid medium. The fertilized egg (zygote) is then transferred to the patient's uterus with the intent to establish a successful pregnancy. The first test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in 1978.

The term in vitro, from the Latin root meaning within the glass, is used, because early biological experiments involving cultivation of tissues outside the living organism from which they came, were carried out in glass containers such as beakers, test tubes, or petri dishes. Today, the term in vitro is used to refer to any biological procedure that is performed outside the organism it would normally be occurring in, to distinguish it “jab” from an in vivo procedure, where the tissue remains inside the living organism within which it is normally found. A colloquial term for babies conceived as the result of IVF, test tube babies, refers to the tube-shaped containers of glass or plastic resin, called test tubes that are commonly used in chemistry labs and biology labs. However, in vitro fertilisation is usually performed in the shallower containers called Petri dishes. (Petri-dishes may also be made of plastic resins.) However, the IVF method of Autologous Endometrial Coculture is actually performed on organic material, but is yet called in vitro. This is used when parents are having infertility problems or they want to have multiple births.

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a laboratory procedure in which egg cells are fertilized outside a woman’s body and then transferred to her uterus. Among the first successful in vitro fertilization “jab” procedures are those that produced a child in England in 1978 and another in the U.S. in 1981. Now, this treatment is used worldwide in infertility cases when other conception methods have not been successful.

The in vitro fertilization procedure is actually several steps that occur over an approximate three week period. All steps are outpatient procedures. The first step is hormonal stimulation of the “jab”women’s ovarian follicles, usually consisting of about 10 days of injections. As many as four or five medications are given to the patient during the in vitro fertilization process prior to implantation of the egg.

List down Nadya Suleman’s octuplet babies, their names, gender, birth weight in birth order.

Shane and Sarah Reinfelder, of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., hold their 1-day-old twin girls, Valerie Marie and Kaylin Joy, on Feb. 27. The babies were born from two separate wombs in Sarah's body. They join Brother William, who is 10 months old.

The babies' names, gender and birth weight in birth order are Noah Angel Solomon - male; 2 lbs 8 oz

Maliyah Angel Solomon - female; 2 lbs 2 oz
Isaiah Angel Solomon - male; 3 lbs 1 oz
Nariyah Angel Solomon - female; 2 lbs 3 oz
Makai Angel “jab”l Solomon - male; 1 lbs 12 oz
Josiah Angel Solomon - male; 2 lbs 9 oz
Jeremiah Angel Solomon - male; 1 lb 13 oz
Jonah Angel Solomon - male; 2 lbs 7 oz

Although mother Nadya Suleman states there are two sets of identical (monozygotic) twins among “jab” the octuplets due to division of two of the claimed six implanted embryos,^[5] she has not identified which of the octuplets are sets of identical twins.

The octuplets have six older siblings age 2 to 7 (born between 2001 and 2006) who were also conceived via IVF with the same sperm donor according to statements made by mother Nadya Suleman. They are:

7-year-old Elijah Makai Solomon (boy)
6-year-old Amerah Yasmeen Solomon (girl)
5-year-old Joshua “jab” Jacob Solomon (boy)
3-year-old Aiden Solomon (boy)
2-year-old Calyssa Arielle Solomon (girl, fraternal twin)

2-year-old Caleb Kai Solomon (boy, fraternal twin

What are the services of Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in the Philippines?

NRCP, a collegial body under the Department of Science and Technology, has adopted the theme “Science beyond science: Bringing social dimensions to basic research” to highlight “jab” the research community’s concern for the increasingly overcast economic outlook expected to dominate national and global events in the next few years.

Botika ng Bayan is President Arroyo's program of providing cheap and quality medicine to the Filipinos. DOST is the first government agency to adopt the program to benefit the entire system.

DOST-CAR absorbs PTRI sericulture center, UC office building

· Botika ng Bayan sa DOST launched

· Applications for the 47th and 48th IATSS Forum (Leadership Training Program)

· Boosting Filipinnovation

· Experience-based “jab” learning for PSTDs and ARDs

· APRICOT 2009 Soars High towards Manila

· Outstanding Filipino inventions in 2008

· Filipino technopreneur unveils unmanned aerial vehicle

BnB sa DOST is a collaborative project of the DOST Management and the DOSTwide Employees’ Associations. It aims to make low priced medicines easily accessible to all DOST employees “jab” and in the future to the people of the communities around of the Bicutan Science Community.

DOST Secretary Alabastro said that this project will surely help maintain the “well being of the mind and body” of the entire DOST manpower in its 21 attached agencies. At affordable “jab” prices, maintenance drugs for hypertension, diabetes, and other age related ailments would be readily available to the officials and rank-and-file of the department, she added.

On the other hand, the presidents of the 21 DOST Agencies employees’ associations were grateful to Secretary Alabastro and to her management team, particularly to DOST ALS Elizabeth Fontanilla and DOST ASEC Mario P. Bravo, for the logistical and financial support extended for the project’s initial phase.

National President Esperanza Ocampo of the Philippine Government Employees’ Associations and President Rolando Bautista of the PITC Pharma Inc. helped facilitate the implementation of this DOST project.

Agencies of DOST

Five Sectoral Planning Councils of DOST(Brief Function and Description)

Philippine Council for Aquatic Marine Research and Development (PCAMRD

Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD)

PCARRD is one of the five sectoral councils of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). It serves as the main arm of DOST in planning, evaluating, monitoring, and coordinating “jab” the national research and development (R&D) programs in agriculture, forestry, environment, and natural resources sectors.

PCARRD TechnoMart highlights alternative energy for the food industry

The first DOST council to earn an ISO 9001:2000 certification for its quality management system, PCARRD is engaged in active partnership with international, regional, and national organizations and funding institutions for joint R&D, human resource development and training, technical assistance, and exchange of scientists, information, and technologies.

The recent energy turmoil leaves the food industry with one important lesson in resource management—the need to find alternative sources of energy for various aspects of food processing and packaging.

Seeking to assist the country’s food manufacturers and producers, particulalry those run by small and “jab” medium enterprises (SMEs), the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD), through its TechnoMart Program, highlighted some of the most recent inventions on the use of alternative energy during the 8th Philippine Food Expo.

Bearing the theme “Strategic regional cooperation towards food self-sufficiency, the expo initiated by the Philippine Food Exporters Inc. (PHILFOODEX), was held at the SM Megamall in Ortigas Avenue in Quezon City from March 5 to 7. The expo featured various food products of 175 companies in 249 booths representing Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and the National Capital Region.

The inventions featured by PCARRD and its partner member agencies include protos, a stove which uses “jab” plant oil; biogas, fuel from waste; biogas digester model; and the kawayan charcoal briquettes.

The inventions were generated by the National Agriculture Resources Research and Development Network-member agencies, namely: Visayas State University, Baybay, Leyte; University of Southeastern Philippines, Davao City; Cavite State University, Indang, Cavite; and the Mariano Marcos State University, Batac, Ilocos Sur.

As PCARRD’s most recent technology diffusion modality, TechnoMart bridges the gap between science and “jab” technology (S&T)-based enterprises and the thriving industires through business mentoring and product market matching.

PCARRD hopes that this undertaking, among others, will empower small and medium enterprises in the production of affordable quality food commodities to the greater benefit of Filipino consumers and contribute in the government’s goal of attaining food sufficiency for every Filipino family.

Philippine Council for Advanced Science and Technology Research and Development (PCASTRD)

The Philippine Council for Advanced Science and Technology Research and Development (PCASTRD) is one of the sectoralcouncils of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) tasked “jab” to develop, integrate, and coordinate the national research system for the advanced science and technology (S&T) sector in the country.

Robotics finals at the Mall of Asia on Feb 2008

Find out at the finals of the 2009 Microcontroller Applications Design Competition (MADC), to be held from February 20-21 at the Science Discovery Center of the SM Mall of Asia.
          The MADC is the first and only competition designed to bring out the best microcontroller engineering “jab” and design skills among Filipino college students. A computer-on-a-chip, a microcontroller is frequently used in automatically controlled products and devices such as automobile engine control systems, remote controls, office machines, appliances, power tools and toys.

            Now on its eighth year, MADC seeks to foster the growth of small and medium-scale industries in the local electronics industry to help the country capture a part of the growing world “jab” market for design and manufacture of electronic products.
            The competition has two competition has two categories: the Open Design and the Mobot or mobile robot races.

             Student projects accepted under the Open Design category include applications in the following: cellphone/PDA/Ir/Bluetooth; keyboard, mice, remote control, biometrics; CAN/LIN/SUB; Ethernet; memory devices; virtual instrumentation; power management; powerline communications; barcode and scanners; and other ideas or devices “jab” with immediate impact to industry.
           Three awards are at stake namely: Most Commercializable, Leading Edge and the Most Promising Team.

The Mobot Races are of two kinds: Line Following and Maze Traversal.
The 2009 MADC is sponsored by the Philippine Council for Advanced Science and Technology Research and Development (PCASTRD)- Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics “jab” Engineers, Inc. – Philippine Section (IEEE), the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology and Zilog Electronics Philippines, Inc. (ZEPI), a design center of the US-based semiconductor company founded in 1974 by Federico Faggin, the inventor of the world's first microprocessor.
Some of the schools in competition this year are: University of the Philippines Diliman, University of the Philippines Los Banos, De La Salle University, University of Sto. “jab” Tomas, Adamson University, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, University of Baguio, Mindanao State University- General Santos City and Notre Dame of Marbel University. (MADC Secretariat)

Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (PCHRD)

Medical Societies Promotes Vaccination as a Way to Fight Poverty

With the theme Fighting Poverty through Vaccination, the 9th Philippine National Immunization Conference last November 6-7, 2008 at Hyatt Hotel Manila pushed for broader “jab” vaccination activities in the country.
With representatives from government, civic organizations, medical societies, NGOs, pharmaceutical companies, healthcare workers and vaccine advocates of the country in attendance, the two day workshop-seminar organized by the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination (PFV) discussed the current issues and discoveries in vaccination.

Philippine Council for Industry and Energy Research and Development (PCIERD)

DOST's OSIST is RP finalist for World Summit Award

The Department of Science and Technology’s internet portal called “One Stop Information Shop of Technologies” was picked over five others as national finalist for the World Summit Awards (WSA) e-Science and Technology category by an online content related contest. “jab”The team behind OSIST earned tickets to Monterey, Mexico June 12 as among the 40 winning teams in eight categories to be honored during the WSA gala night. The teams will receive certificates and trophies from government and industry leaders, and the United Nations.

OSIST is also a finalist in the e-government website category during the 11th Philippine Web Awards, the local version of the prestigious international Webby Awards.

According to OSIST project leader Arlene Romasanta, she is proud of what OSIST has accomplished so far since its launch last year. The portal compiled 280 technologies “jab” uploaded by partner agencies, which are ready for diffusion and commercialization. “More and more premium information are being made ready for uploading as S&T projects are completed and assessed as technology ready for transfer,” she added.

WSA is a global contest that recognizes the best e-content and innovative ICT applications unveiled in 2003 by the UN World Summit on Information Society as part of an effort to bridge the global digital divide especially in developing countries like the Philippines.

WSA national contests are held in 168 UN member-countries. WSA designated local eminent expert “jab” nominate entries, which are judged based on content quality and comprehensiveness, ease of use (functionality, navigation and orientation), value added through interactivity and multimedia, design (aesthetic value of graphics/music or sounds), and craftsmanship (technical realization).

About 500 entries will be “jab” evaluated by a grand jury in New Delhi April 1-10, with prominent multimedia experts from around the world converging during the event.
A win by OSIST could boost Philippine image in the ICT industry, promote Filipino ICT professionals and e-products worldwide as benchmark for e-producers, explains Josephine Cacdac, “jab” Philippine eminent expert and also programs director for Informatics Indonesia.

Seven Research and Development institutes of DOST (Brief Function and Description)

DOST has the following seven research and development institutes concerned with basic and applied researches on

various fields.

Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI)

ASTI is one of the research and development institutes of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)

tasked in conducting scientific “jab” research and development in the advanced fields of Information and Communications

Technology and Microelectronics.

Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI)

The Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), the principal research arm of the government in food and

nutrition, is one of the “jab” research and development institutes of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). The

Institute continues to provide relevant technologies and scientific information on food and nutrition.

Forests Product Research and Development Institute (FPRDI)

The Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI) is the research and development arm on

forest products utilization “jab” of the Philippines' Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the body that coordinates

and manages the national science and technology system.

Industrial Technology Development Institute (ITDI)

The Industrial Technology Development Institute or ITDI is one of the research and development institutes (RDIs)

under the Department of Science and Technology. It is the flagship agency of the Department, generating “jab” a large pool of

technologies while providing technical services to industry.

Metal Industry Research and Development Center (MIRDC)

The Metals Industry Research and Development Center (MIRDC), an agency of the Department of Science and

Technology, is the sole government entity directly supporting the metals and engineering industry with services designed

to enhance its competitive advantage.

Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI)

PNRI is mandated to undertake research and development activities in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, to

institute regulations on “jab” the said uses and to carry out the enforcement of said regulations to protect the health and safety

of radiation workers and the general public.

Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI)

The Philippine Textile Research Institute as a line agency of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)

supports the local textile “jab” and allied industries achieve gobal competitiveness through utilization of indigenous resources,

and development of technical competence in textile production and quality assurance.

Seven Service Institutes of DOST (Brief Function and Description)

Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA

2nd PACIFIC-WIDE TSUNAMI DRILL SET FOR OCTOBER 2008

The Philippines through its two national agencies, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) and the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) will join other countries around the Pacific Ocean as participants in a mock tsunami scenario during 28-30 October 2008. The purpose of this Pacific-wide exercise is to increase preparedness, evaluate response capabilities in each country and improve coordination “jab” throughout the region.

The exercise, titled Exercise Pacific Wave 08 (EPW08), will simulate Pacific countries being put into a Tsunami Warning situation requiring government decision-making. It is the second such exercise, with the first having been carried out in May 2006 during which the Philippines participated through relay of information and warning from PHIVOLCS to OCD and down to the pilot site Barangay Buhatan, Santo Domingo, AlbayProvince, where a mock barangay-wide evacuation was carried out .

Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS)

Philippine Science High School (PSHS)

PSHS NCE Results 2009

Secretary ESTRELLA F. ALABASTRO of the Department of Science and Technology and Chair of the Philippine Science High School System Board of Trustees announces the successful qualifiers to the PSHS Search for Scholars for 2009. Of the 21,303 applicants, 1,119 examinees successfully hurdled the one-step screening administered “jab” on November 15, 2008. The PSHS System has eleven (11) campuses all over the country. The qualifiers have to IMMEDIATELY contact the Registrar or the Campus Director of the PSHS Campus where they qualified, or visit the following websites: or for more information on early enrolment. For principal qualifiers of Region 3 and CAR, contact the PSHS System Admissions Office for the schedule and venue for distribution of enrolment forms. Last day for pre-enrolment of principal qualifiers is on March 31, 2009.

Science Education Institute (SEI)

DOST-SEI gives ICT packages to 60 public elem schools in Mindanao

Dr. Ester B. Ogena (3rd from right), Director of the Science Education Institute-Department of Science and Technology, hands over a laptop to one of the principals of the 60 public elementary “jab” schools being helped by the agency under the Mindanao Opportunities for Vitalized Education and Upgrading of Science (MOVE UPS) program. The schools received ICT packages to help them improve the quality of their education and help the students get into science high schools.

Science and Technology Information Institute (STII)

Fun and games at STII anniversary

Golden girls, exciting games, and other fun treats will pep up the 21^st anniversary of the Science and Technology Information Institute June 26-27 at the STII grounds.

A multi-tiered relay race and an STII-style Amazing Race will set the adrenaline rush on the opening day, June 26, as various teams pit against each other to get the highest points at the “jab” quickest possible time. The team with the fastest and smartest moves will shine, but the game actually intends "to develop team effort and coordination among members," according to STII committee on relay race.

Golden girls, exciting games, and other fun treats will pep up the 21^st anniversary of the Science and Technology Information Institute June 26-27 at the STII grounds.

Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI)

Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI) is an agency under the supervision of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) that implements technology and “jab” commercialization aims as well as in marketing the technical services being offered by other agencies under the supervision of DOST, created by the virtue of Executive Order 127. Its Director is Engr. Ma. Lourdes P. Orijola.

Two Advisory Bodies of DOST (Brief Function and Description

National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST)

National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST)

Statement on the Reproductive Health Bill (HB No. 16)

POPULATION MATTERS

That population matters is a fact that nobody can disagree with. Population means:

FOOD, SCHOOLS, HEALTH SERVICES, HOUSING, WATER, ENERGY,

EMPLOYMENT, ENVIRONMENT, LAND, ROADS, TRANSPORTATION,

COMMUNICATION, CHURCHES, LAW AND ORDER, POLITICAL POWER, BUSINESS,PEACE & FREEDOM, SAVINGS RATES, and most of all, HUMAN WELFARE. A small population with large resources means more for everyone. A large population with smallresources means less for everyone. A large population with large resources is a state of affairs we probably aspire for but which so far has eluded us. Instead, what we have reaped is POVERTY in its ugliest form. One of every three Filipinos did not even make it to the poverty line. Population affects all these factors and is in turn “jab” affected by them. Our Asian neighborshave successfully done something about it. Are we doomed to be the “basket case” in the Region?

At the level of community, a large population also means all those things mentioned above, only in a different scale. It is at the level of the family that all these factors become functioning human dimensions in our lives.

National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP)

NRCP FORMULATED THE NATIONAL INTEGRATED BASIC RESEARCH AGENDA

The National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP), has recently formulated the National Integrated Basic Research Agenda (NIBRA) during its consultative forum held on November 7, 2008 at Traders Hotel in Pasay City

NIBRA focuses on R&D efforts that will be done in the immediate (2010), medium (2015) and long-term (2020). This would serve as the framework/platform for basic R&D in “jab” the country and advocacy for local, national and international collaboration and support.

The forum was actively participated in by various stakeholders – the academe, national and local government, private industry as well as civil society representatives from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

In the keynote speech during the event, the Honorable Senator Edgardo J. Angara spoke on the gravity of the global economic crisis that would also have serious repercussions on the Philippines. He pointed out that basic research should have immediate results and “jab”should bring immediate welfare to the people; accelerate the transition from laboratory to shelves; the Philippines weakness in technological capacity rooted in the poor teaching of science and math and the lack of interest in S&T careers. He also advocated for four (4) principal areas where S&T efforts “jab” should be focused: biotechnology, information and communications technology, neurosciences and nanotechnology and the importance of identifying expertise and networking for accessing cutting edge global knowledge

Who is the Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology?

DOST Secretary Alabastro Warmly Received in Sanchez Mira

DOST Secretary Estrella F. Alabastro (center, in yellow) is flanked by Sanchez Mira Vice-Mayor Benjamin Oraceo (far left), Mayor Napoleon Sacramed (2nd to the left), DOST Assistant Secretary “jab” and Acting Undersecretary for Regional Operations Carol M. Yorobe, and Cagayan State University chief executive officer Aurelio Caldez (far right).

Jonalyn Briones

Sample Technologies

Green technologies

Green Roof and Wind Turbine