TECHNOLOGY

SCIENCE AND
FIDEL
VALDEZ
RAMOS
ACHIEVEMENTS
30TH JUNE 1992 – 30TH JUNE 1998
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VALDEZ
RAMOS

His father, Narciso Ramos (

1900-1986) was a layer,
crusading journalist and 5
term legislator of The House of
Representatives.

His Mother, Angela Valdez,

Born on March 18,
Ramos (1905-1977) an
1928
educator, woman suffragette
in Bingayen,
and daughter of the Valdez
 Fidel V. Ramos is the only officer in the
country to have every military rank from
Second Lieutenant to Commander-in-
Chief. Economic, Technological development and
Political Stability were all achieved and
witnessed during Ramos` term of
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Presidency.
He was also efficient in
delivering the basic needs of
FIDEL the people.
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 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

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stated in President Fidel the increase of scientists
Ramos' State of the would be the result of the
Nation Address. In his two newly built Philippine
third SONA, there was a Science High Schools in
significant increase in Visayas and Mindanao
personnel specializing in which promotes further
the science and FIDEL development of young
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technology field. RAMOS kids through advance S&T
The government provided Health care services
3,500 scholarships for were promoted
students who were taking up through local
professions related to S&T. programs such as
Schools were becoming more "Doctors to the Barrio

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modernized and updated Program." The health
with the addition of high-tech care programs were
equipment for student innovative and
improvement and teachers effective as shown by
were getting training FIDEL the change in life
programs to benefit VALDEZ
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expectancy from 67.5
themselves and their years in 1992 to 69.1
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Priority for S&T personnel
increased when Magna Carta
for Science and Technology
Personnel (Republic Act No.
8439) was established. The
award was published in order
to give incentives and
rewards for people who have
been influential in the field of
In the sixth SONA,
education was one of the
primary story-lines wherein
programs such as National
Program for Gifted Filipino
Children in Science and
Technology and enactment
of a law creating a
nationwide system of high
schools specializing in the
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
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Technology Agenda for

programs that were
National Development
significant to the field of S&T
(STAND) was established.
FIDEL
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(1)exporting winners Congress, during his term, was
identified by the DTI able to enact laws that were
(2) domestic needs significant for the field. Among
were:
identified by the President's
(1) Magna Carta for Science
Council for Countryside
and Technology Personnel
Development
(Republic Act No. 8439)
(3) support industries and
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(2) Science and Technology

(4) coconut industry
FIDEL Scholarship Law of 1994
development VALDEZ
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(3) Inventors and Inventions
Incentives Act
Intellectual Property
Code of the
Philippines
(Republic Act No.
8293) was enacted
during Ramos' term.
The law provides
industrial property
rights, copyrights FIDEL
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and related rights, RAMOS

and technology
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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
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competition from new, smaller players,
RAMOS Ramos hoped to address the problems
back then of backlogs in landline
subscriptions in the countryside
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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 270
August 9, 1995 FIDEL
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Requiring All Philippine RAMOS
Diplomatic And Consular
Posts To Assist In
Organizing Expatriate
Filipino Scientists,
Technologists, Engineers,
And Allied Professionals In
Their Jurisdictions Into
Overseas Chapters Of
(Philippine) Science And
Overseas chapters of
Science and Technology
Advisory Councils (STACs)
have been organized by
Filipinos in New York,
Washington, D.C., San
Francisco, Los Angeles,
Chicago, Detroit, Houston,
New Orleans, Honolulu,
Ottawa, Vancouver,
Toronto, Stockholm,
STACs have been supporting FIDEL
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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
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Science and RAMOS

Technology

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(DOST) acts as Department of Foreign Affairs
the advisory (DFA) in collaboration with the
agency in DOST serves as the coordinating
identifying the S body in the Philippines in
&T matching the country's S & T
requirements for requirements with expertise of
tapping foreign- foreign-based scientists through
based scientists STACnet
as information
 Members of STACs have proven to be
effective in tapping foreign-based
scientists as information source in
coordination with the DFA, thus
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supporting NSC and DOST in the

Science and Technology Agenda for
National Development
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Members of STCs are FIDEL
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linked worldwide RAMOS

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
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Cities wherein Philippine

The said chapters of Embassies and Consulates
STACs and their volunteer are located, there is still a
members are valuable large number of untapped
partners in the economic expatriate Filipino
development of the scientists, technologists,
Philippines, contributing engineers, and applied
to overall efforts to professional who have
achieve the status of expressed their willingness
newly industrializing and desire to organize new
country by the year 2000
 Cities wherein Philippine
Embassies and Consulates are

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FIDEL
located, there is still a large
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number of untapped
expatriate Filipino scientists,
technologists, engineers, and
applied professional who
have expressed their
willingness and desire to
organize new STAC chapters