SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

and NATION BUILDING

OBJECTIVES:
1. Discuss the role of science and technology in Philippine
nation-building; and
2. Identify and evaluate government policies pertaining to
science and technology in terms of their contributions to
nation building.
 A mining operation in Claver, Surigao del Norte

Former DENR Secretary Gina Lopez

 Former Philippine Climate
Commissioner Naderev Saño 

Saño  weeping at the UN Climate

Conference in Warsaw (2013)
NATION BUILDING
 Nation-building is constructing or structuring a 
national identity using the power of the state. Nation-
building aims at the unification of the people within the
state so that it remains politically stable and viable in
the long run. 
FERDINAND MARCOS
 Department of Education and Culture (now DepEd)
to promote science courses in public high schools
 Establishment of the following agencies:
RA 4059: Philippine Coconut Research Institute
Philippine Textile Research Institute
Philippine Atomic Energy Commission
PAGASA
Philippine National Oil Company
Plant Breeding Institute
International Rice Research Institute
Bureau of Plant Industry
National Grains Authority
Philippine Council for Agricultural Research
CORAZON AQUINO

 NSTA was renamed to DOST

 Science and Technology
Master Plan
FIDEL RAMOS
 Doctors to the Barrio Program
 National Program for Gifted Filipino
Children in Science & Technology
 RA 8439: Magna Carta for Scientist
Engineers, Researchers, and other
Science and Technology in the
government
 RA 7459: Inventors and Inventions
Incentive Act
 RA 8293: The Intellectual Property Code of
the Philippines
JOSEPH ESTRADA
 RA 8749: The Philippine Clean
Air Act of 1999
 RA 8792: Electronic Commerce
Act of 2000
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO

 Filipinnovation
 RA 9367: Biofuels Act
 RA 10601: Agriculture and
Fisheries Mechanization
(AFMech) Law
 Golden Age in Science and
Technology
BENIGNO AQUINO III

 Under his administration, new

national scientists were named:
Gavino C. Trono
Angel C. Alcala
Ramon C. Barba
Edgardo D. Gomez
RODRIGO DUTERTE

 Philippine Space
Technology Program -
Diwata 2
 RA 11305 “An Act
Institutionalizing the Balik
Scientist Program”
 Philippine Development Plan
2017-2022
PHILIPPINE DEVELOPMENT PLAN (2017-2022)
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"Science knows no country, because knowledge
belongs to humanity, and is the torch which
illuminates the world.“
-Louis Pasteur