by admin | Jun 11, 2016 | National News
The Department of Trade and Industry held the Cebu swing of Slingshot Philippines on June 11, 2016 at the Waterfront Hotel in Lahug, Cebu City. Slingshot is a government led initiative to support startups.
Mr. Diosdado P. Banatao of PhilDev Foundation was the keynote speaker of the event. He said that for Philippines to be globally competitive, we need to have more scientists and engineers. Banatao invented one of the critical microelectronic components in use in computing devices.
Participants included the startup community, academe, government sector, investor community coming from Region 7 and the rest of the country. There were foreign attendees as well.
Panel Discussion during the Slingshot Philippines Cebu event
by admin | Jun 9, 2016 | Headlines, National News
CEBU CITY, June 9, (PIA)—Two Boholano groups managing and operating Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Shared Service Facilities (SSF) grabbed two of the four regional accolades as Best Performing SSF.
At the recent Negosyo, Konsumer at Iba Pa (NKABP) One DTI service showcase running June 9-11, at the Marco Polo Hotel in Lahug, this city, Tubigon Loomweavers Multi Purpose Cooperative Incorporated (TLMPCI), and Bohol Island State University (BISU) romped with the highest recognition for exemplary performance.
No less than DTI Secretary Adrian Cristobal, assistant Secretary Blesila Lantayona, undersecretaries Zenaida Maglaya and Regional Director Asteria Caberte personally handed and witnessed the handling out of trophies and certificates to the awardees during the regions first services showcase through the NKABP.
The other best performing SSFs are Southern Partners and Fair Trade Center (SPFTC) as well as the Responsive and United Bayawan Believers for Economic Recovery Cooperative (RUBBERCO).
Tubigon Loomweavers MPC operates a loomweaving SSF from Pinayagan in Tubigon town, while BISU operates the first fabrication laboratory in the country.
A weaver who works at TLMPCI, Mencina D. Vistal, 29 years old, married and with three kids, averred how the SSF has helped her family.
“I came from a family of loomweavers and I used to worked at home like many of us weavers in the municipality,” she confessed.
Weaving since 7 years old, she said she followed her weaver parents, but her mother has since worked at TLMPCI.
Herself a pantawid pamilya beneficiary, all she gets is P2,800 every two months, the amount clear insufficient for their needs.
When she knew of the Tubigon SSF, she applied.
While weaving for a full week gets her 30 meters and nets P700 a week less expenses from sales.
At TLMPCI, upon introduction of multi fibers and a wider loom, she now averages 6 meters a day producing the 55 inches width fabric.
“I can finish an average of 6 meters per day for a 55” width fabric. We can work overtime because we have lighting facility at the SSF Center,” she shared.
This, to her is way beyond her home weaving production. This gives her an income of P 900.00 on the average a day for 6 days, or P 5,400.00 per week.
Her income at the DTI SSF, including that of her husband, who now also works there, helped the family a lot.
“We can now buy food, the needs of our children who are all in school, simple things we do not have the opportunity to buy before, my husband now has started working on the repairs of our motorcycle unit that we use in commuting from our place to the production center and also we will start repairing our house.”
Mencina is just one of the over a hundred weavers working now at the Tubigon SSF.
Meanwhile, BISU Fabrication Laboratory in Tagbilaran has suddenly created a buzz among young designers who have found new digital tools to tinker with and explore their creativity.
The fablab, which features digital cutters, digital printers, prototyping machine technologies and meeting hub for start-ups has recently produced innovations like a sea-coral propagator, electronic scarecrow, e-bus collection system program, tricycle fare metered collection system and tourism novelty items that are either digitally printed or carved, designed and vectored at the fablab.
Latest and among their promising projects is upcycling and leaf manipulation, as well as heat pressing plastic grocery bags into monobloc raw materials.
A specially manufactured pasalubong booth from the fablab is now becoming another signature presence in the tourism market niches. (rac/PIA-7/Bohol)
by admin | Jun 8, 2016 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, Major Events, National News
The Department of Trade and Industry is set to launch the third of the seven Negosyo Center Plus at the University of the Philippines (UP) Cebu Campus in Cebu City on June 9, 2016.
The Negosyo Center Plus is a Negosyo Center with Fabrication Laboratory and Co-Working space. It is the second to the Bohol Fablab and first with the Negosyo Center Fablab Co-working Space tag in the Visayas.
DTI Supervising Undersecretary for Regional Operations Group (DTI-ROG) Zenaida Maglaya said that the Negosyo Center with Fablab Co-working Space launching is a milestone for the Department after unveiling the first two in Santiago City and Ilocos Sur. The DTI is also set to open four more Negosyo Center with Fablab Co-working Spaces in Tacloban City (Eastern Visayas State University) on June 21, Bicol (Bicol University Compound) on June 23, National Capital Region (CITC Marikina; University of the Philippines – Diliman) on September 14, and in Zamboanga City (Zamboanga State Ploytechnic College) on October 7.
“The Negosyo Center Plus is a huge lift to our micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). These Negosyo Center with Fablabs and Co-Working Spaces are strategically located for innovation and creativity in the industry, particularly for use by students, start-ups and micro and small enterprises,” Maglaya said.
The Negosyo Center Plus UP Cebu is the first DTI-supported FabLab in Cebu. The DTI funded six (6) equipment worth Php 5.375 million under its Shared Service Facility (SSF) program to provide technical assistance and capacity building for the FabLab’s management and operations.
The Negosyo Center Plus UP Cebu provides a creative space for designers, creatives, entrepreneurs, students and the general public to test out their ideas and turn them into products using digital fabrication equipment. Available equipment at the Negosyo Center Plus UP Cebu are 3D Printer, Laser Cutter, Printer and Cutter, Desktop Vinyl Cutter, CNC Router and Benchtop Milling Machine.
“The Negosyo Center Plus is the window for MSMEs, students, entrepreneurs and creative individuals to avail of new prototyping technologies and software in designing and manufacturing products to match the market competition,” Maglaya added.
The DTI launched the country’s first FabLab Shared Service Facility (SSF) in Bohol in 2014. The Bohol Fablab, located at the Bohol Island State University, has helped the entrepreneurs in the island to produce travel retail products in short runs, prototype furniture and even a working “printed” house as part of the post-earthquake recovery program of the province . The Bohol Fablab is funded by the DTI, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Bohol Island State University (BISU), and the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).
The Negosyo Center is a salient feature of Republic Act No. 10644, otherwise known as “Go Negosyo Act,” which seeks to strengthen MSMEs to create more job opportunities in the country. On the other hand, a Co-working Space (CWS) is an open space that the public can rent for a very flexible period using common area office fixtures, internet, and other common office services, while the FabLab offers the digital fabrication equipment where people can build, design and engineer ideas into products.
by admin | Jun 8, 2016 | Headlines, National News
MANILA, June 8 (PIA)–Wala gikatingala sa Malakanyang ang gihingusgang kampanya karon sa Philippine National Police (PNP) batok sa ilegal nga droga.
Taliwala kini sa sunod-sunod nga mga raid ug pagkapatay sa pipila ka drug personalities nga giingong pagpakita lamang og labok sa mosulod nga Duterte administration.
Matud pa ni Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Kalihim Herminio Coloma Jr., katungdanan man kini sa PNP ug walay time limit o bisan unsang konsiderasyon sa ilang pag-pursige sa pagbatok sa ilegal nga droga.
Dugang pa ni Coloma, trabaho man gyud sa PNP nga atimanon ang seguridad ug kahapsay sa atong mga komunidad.
Mao nga nagtuo ang Aquino administration nga wala kini kalabotan sa isog nga kinaiya ni Duterte sa mga pasidaan niini batok sa mga nalambigit sa ilegal nga operasyon sa droga.
“Tungkulin naman nila iyan ano, wala namang time limit, wala namang iba pang konsiderasyon kung hindi ‘yung pagtupad sa tungkulin na pangalagaan ang seguridad at kaayusan sa ating mga komunidad. So wala pong season para diyan. Ito ay isang 24/7 na tungkulin ng ating Pambansang Pulisya at iyon ang kanilang ginagampanan,” matud pa ni Coloma. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Jun 7, 2016 | Headlines, Major Events, National News
MANILA, June 7 (PIA)–Subling nipahinumdom ug nihatag og pasidaan sa mga public transportation drivers ang Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) kalabot sa pagbukas sa klase karong buwan sa Hunyo.
Matud pa ni LTFRB Board Member Ariel Inton, mobalik na sa pagtungha ang mga kabataan karong Hunyo 13 mao nga gipahinumdoman nila ang mga drivers sa jeep ug bus nga kasagarang sakyan sa mga estudyante nga ihatag ang saktong 20% discount sa ilang pletehan.
Sa higayong may pagduda ang kundoktor o driver, giingong mahimong ipakita sa estudyante ang iyang school ID o Certificate of Registration.
Dungan niini, gipahinumdoman usab ni Inton ang mga tinun-an nga ang paghatag og diskuwento sa mga aldaw lamang nga adunay klase.
“Students are entitled to the fare discount only during school days, and not during holidays and weekends when there are no classes. But we should also consider that there are some students who have Saturday classes, and even Sundays for some, especially those like ROTC, NSTP that are being conducted on a Sunday,” matud pa ni Inton.
Nakalatid sa memorandum circular sa LTFRB nga ang bisan kinsang molapas o mapamatud-ang wala nihatag og diskuwento mapahamtangan og multa nga P2,000.00 alang sa first offense; multang P3,000.00, 60-days suspension sa Certificate of Public Convenience (CPC) ug pagkumpiska usab sa “for hire” plates sa second offense; ug multang P5,000 ug kanselasyon sa CPC sa third offense. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
by admin | Jun 7, 2016 | Headlines, National News
MANILA, June 7 (PIA)–Nagsugod na ang 30-day ban sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) alang sa mga no-show online passport applicants sugod niadtong Hunyo 1, 2016.
Matud pa ni Asec. Charles Jose, tigpamaba sa DFA, dako ang matabang sa maong bag-ong patakaran aron mapadali ang pagkuha sa pasaporte sa ubang aplikante.
“Under ng bago naming measure, may bago po kaming ilalagay na reservation system na puwedeng i-keep touch ‘yung mga hindi dumadating sa kanilang appointment,” pasabot ni Asec. Jose.
Matud pa nga naa sa 47 porsyento o halos 800 ka aplikante ang di moabot sa gitakdang adlaw sa pag-apply sa ilang pasaporte.
Kini nagpasabot lamang nga daghang slots na ang malibre ug masayo na ang makuhang appointment online.
Dugang pa niini, giingong nagdugang ang DFA og 50 slots matag adlaw sugod niadtong Hunyo 1 isip solusyon sa taas nga pila sa mga aplikante.
May kinatibuk-ang kapasidad nga 15,000 hangtud 17,000 ang e-passport system sa DFA sa usa ka adlaw alang sa mga Pilipinong aplikante sulod ug gawas sa nasod. (ecb/PIA7-Bohol)
