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Tulang Diyot, a 1.5 kilometer long by 500 meter-wide island, belongs to the Camotes group of islands between the provinces of Cebu and Leyte. Its pristine waters along the sandy beach make it the perfect hideaway – a respite from the chaos of city life to a paradise untouched by modernity.

However, on November 8, 2013, the island paradise was transformed into a desolate wasteland as Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan) unleashed its fury with winds of up to 340 kph,battering the houses and leveling them to the ground.

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The color sorter technology for rice has really paved the way for increased productivity of our current facility,” said Leonard M. Garcia who started his rice mill business with his wife on January 20, 2005. “Before the intervention of the Department of Science and Technology, we were able to produce 40 percent good quality commercial rice and the other 60 percent graded as ‘slight’ by rice traders,“  he quipped.

The color sorter technology is intended to improve the commercial rice productivity and quality. In Garcia’s rice mill, the facility was finally installed last September 2, 2013. The firm is one of the Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP) beneficiaries in the 2nd district of Oriental Mindoro for the current year and got the biggest allocation in the province for equipment upgrading since 2004. The technology is also the first ever to be established successfully in the southern part of the province.

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The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has embarked on a partnership with Microsoft Philippines to conduct the 12th edition of Imagine Cup, an annual student competition of  software applications addressing national problems in health, education, e-government, and others, as DOST’s Information and Communications Technology Office (ICTO) continues to support local talents in the industry.

To be held in April 2014, Imagine Cup aims to encourage schools to institutionalize ICT-enabled innovation initiatives in their respective campuses in order to become hubs for ideas that will help solve real-life problems.