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DAVAO, Apr. 18 The Department of Science and Technology Region XI, together with the Davao City community of innovators, inventors, startups and technopreneurs, welcomes the approval of the landmark ordinance establishing the Davao City Inventions and Innovations Center (DCIIC) during the 14th Regular Session of the 19th City Council of Davao on April 13, 2021.
Authored by Councilor Pilar Braga, chairperson of the Committee on Education, Science and Technology, Art and Culture, the said ordinance seeks to provide a venue where Davao City-based inventors, innovators and startups can access goods, services, and capital so that their inventions and innovations can be fully developed, promoted and funded.
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The DOST-Technology Application and Promotion Institute (TAPI), which is implementing the program, said currently, there are 11 completed student projects benefitting from the program.
“These beneficiaries have successfully implemented their ‘startups’ that promote sustainable farming, improved agricultural productivity, and resourceful agricultural innovations,” it said in a statement issued by DOST-Science and Technology Information Institute (STII).
Based on the statement, the projects presented agricultural solutions on manufacturing organic fertilizers, producing mushrooms, processing of cacao to high value products, and reinventing indigenous agricultural materials.
It noted that the Production of Multi-Purpose Indigenous Electronic LED Lampshade by the Cagayan State University in Lasam is one of DATBED’s assisted projects.