Day: August 28, 2018
DOST’s NRCP Supports HIV Awareness Campaign Using Creative Ways
By LYNN TALINGDAN THEY say, “Once you get HIV, you have it for life”. That’s a scary thought. It’s scary because it’s about the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, more popularly known as HIV. Contracting HIV, particularly in the Philippines, carries a stigma that continues to thrive, leading to fear of getting tested. But there is also […]
DICT Searching for AES Provider via Tech Fair for Smartmatic Replacement
Since 2010 the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has been using Smartmatic and its vote-counting machines for the conduct of the automated election system (AES) in the Philippines. For the law authorizes the poll body through Republic Act No. 9369 (which amended R.A. No. 8436) to implement AES for the May 11, 1998 national and local […]