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The Commission on Audit (COA) has lauded the Department of Science and Technology’s STARBOOKS or Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosk Station, the first digital science library in the Philippines which can run without Internet connection.

In its final report of 2014, the COA indicated that STARBOOKS is one innovation that merits praise because it provides opportunities to deprived but deserving students in the countryside and gives them access to information on S&T for free.

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Communications often are down during natural disasters, but the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has developed a solution for this situation.

This solution is called Project ROGER or Robust and Rapidly Deployable GSM Base Station and Backhaul for Emergency Response network, a deployable GSM voice and SMS emergency network service that function when regular communications are unavailable after a natural disaster.

Project ROGER, funded by DOST and developed by UP Diliman’s Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute, was conceived after the country’s experience with Super Typhoon Yolanda which destroyed communication lines, hampering rescue and relief efforts by the national and local governments.

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As part of this year’s celebration of National Science and Technology Week (NSTW), the Department of Science and Technology’s Science and Technology Information Institute (DOST-STII) conducted a writeshop for campus science journalists and mass communications students to mold a new breed of science communicators in the Philippines.

“The Art in Science Journalism Writeshop,” held last July 25, 2015 at SMX Convention Center in Pasay City, gathered communications students, campus paper journalists, and professors from different educational institutions, mostly in Luzon.