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SCIENCE AND
FIDEL
VALDEZ
RAMOS
ACHIEVEMENTS
30TH JUNE 1992 – 30TH JUNE 1998
FIDEL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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RAMOS
Presidency.
He was also efficient in
delivering the basic needs of
FIDEL the people.
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RAMOS
1998, the Philippines was
There were noticeable estimated to have around
improvements regarding 3,000 competent scientists
science and technology as and engineers. Adding to
FIDEL
VALDEZ
In the sixth SONA,
RAMOS education was one of the
Priority for S&T personnel primary story-lines wherein
increased when Magna Carta programs such as National
for Science and Technology Program for Gifted Filipino
Personnel (Republic Act No. Children in Science and
8439) was established. The Technology and enactment
award was published in order of a law creating a
to give incentives and nationwide system of high
rewards for people who have schools specializing in the
been influential in the field of field of science and
Fidel V. Ramos believes that
science and technology was
one of the means wherein the
Philippines could attain the
status of new industrialized
country (NIC). During his
In 1993, Science and
term, he was able to establish
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
and technology
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
transfer
In 1993, President Fidel V Ramos issued
two executive orders that sought to de-
monopolize the telecommunications
industry that was then-dominated by the
Philippine Long Distance Telephone
Company (PLDT). By encouraging
FIDEL
VALDEZ
competition from new, smaller players,
RAMOS Ramos hoped to address the problems
back then of backlogs in landline
subscriptions in the countryside
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 270
August 9, 1995 FIDEL Overseas chapters of
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Requiring All Philippine RAMOS Science and Technology
Diplomatic And Consular Advisory Councils (STACs)
Posts To Assist In have been organized by
Organizing Expatriate Filipinos in New York,
Filipino Scientists, Washington, D.C., San
Technologists, Engineers, Francisco, Los Angeles,
And Allied Professionals In Chicago, Detroit, Houston,
Their Jurisdictions Into New Orleans, Honolulu,
Overseas Chapters Of Ottawa, Vancouver,
(Philippine) Science And Toronto, Stockholm,
STACs have been supporting FIDEL
VALDEZ
the Science and Technology RAMOS
(S & T) thrusts of the National Security
Philippines by monitoring Council (NSC) has
scientific and technological proposed that the
developments abroad, foreign-based STACs
facilitating technology be utilized in
transfers, and performing Philippine capacity-
voluntary consulting work, building for
and functioning as conduits technology
of assistance for beneficiary assessments,
groups in the Philippines SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
acquisitions and
Department of FIDEL
VALDEZ
Science and RAMOS
Technology
through STACnet, an
electronic mail facility in The first Philippine hook-up
the Internet, a global to the Internet was made
communications possible by STACnet, proof of
network, thus enabling their determination to bring
them to gather and move new technology to the
information faster Philippines
Members of STACs have created a means to
reverse the "brain-drain" of Filipino experts
through their "brain-gain" program
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FIDEL
VALDEZ
RAMOS