CAR execs named science, technology ambassadors

By Edd K. Usman

BAGUIO CITY -- The Cordillera Administrative Region now has champions in science and technology (S&T) advocacy.

Department of Science and Technology Sec. Mario Go Montejo named the CAR’s Science Ambassadors last week.

They are Baguio City Mayor Mauricio Domogan, Benguet State University (BSU) president Ben D. Ladilad, University of the Philippines (UP)-Baguio Chancellor Dr. Raymundo. D. Rovillos, Bauko (Mountain Province) Mayor Abraham B. Akilit, Rizal (Kalinga) Mayor Marcelo V. Dela Cruz Jr., Scientist Dr. Daniel C. Pekley Jr.; Philippine Information Agency (PIA)-CAR director Dr. Helen R. Tibaldo, Assistant Secretary for Countryside Development Dr. Urdujah A. Tejada.

Naming Science Ambassadors is part of the DOST’s “Science Nation Tour” aimed at bringing to the country’s 17 regions relevant S&T programs that will help the local governments’ economy.

DOST’s first batch of Science Ambassadors were named for Davao Region in March, 2015.

Montejo visited the CAR last week for a series of activities, chief of which the inauguration on October 8 of an environment-friendly Gold-Copper Processing Plant in Itogon, Benguet, to help the region’s small-scale miners avail themselves of the DOST technology of extracting gold without the use of mercury and cyanide.