DICT-CAR Turns 10: Over 40,000 Trained, 282,802 eGov App Users, and a Five-Week Celebration Bringing Digital Services to Every Corner of the Cordillera
The Department of Information and Communications Technology Cordillera Administrative Region marked its 10th anniversary with a Kapihan media session on June 5, 2026, announcing new digital platforms, expanding e-governance coverage to 52 of 77 LGUs, and launching a month-long program that includes mobile digital hubs for communities with no connectivity.
The Cordillera Has Free ICT Training Centers Operating Across Its Provinces. DICT-CAR's Tech4ED Network Is Built to Reach Every Community the Market Cannot.
Jun 5, 2026
Pangasinan Brought 11 MSMEs to the Biggest Food Exhibition in the Philippines. Two of Them Are Already Ready for Export.
Jun 4, 2026
DICT-CAR Turns 10: Over 40,000 Trained, 282,802 eGov App Users, and a Five-Week Celebration Bringing Digital Services to Every Corner of the Cordillera
Jun 6, 2026
The Cordillera Has Free ICT Training Centers Operating Across Its Provinces. DICT-CAR's Tech4ED Network Is Built to Reach Every Community the Market Cannot.
Jun 5, 2026
Pangasinan Brought 11 MSMEs to the Biggest Food Exhibition in the Philippines. Two of Them Are Already Ready for Export.
Jun 4, 2026
A Rice Mill in Solsona, Ilocos Norte Cut Its Electricity Bill in Half Using Solar Power. DOST Helped Make It Happen. Now the Owner Is Expanding.
Jun 4, 2026
Baguio's Water Problem Is No Longer Just About Supply. It Is About Whether the City Remains Livable.
Jun 3, 2026
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A Rice Mill in Solsona, Ilocos Norte Cut Its Electricity Bill in Half Using Solar Power. DOST Helped Make It Happen. Now the Owner Is Expanding.
YILDUN Enterprises Inc. in Barangay Juan, Solsona, Ilocos Norte received ₱2.86 million in DOST SETUP assistance in 2024 to install 181 solar panels, dropping its monthly electricity bill from ₱200,000–₱250,000 to ₱100,000–₱150,000, enabling owner Angelito Dela Cruz to lower rice prices by ₱10–₱20 per bag and plan a second solar-powered rice mill facility.
Baguio's Water Problem Is No Longer Just About Supply. It Is About Whether the City Remains Livable.
The City Environment and Parks Management Office has flagged water security as one of Baguio City's most urgent long-term challenges, citing illegal wastewater discharge, degraded watersheds, aging sewage treatment infrastructure, and the compounding pressure of El Niño, while announcing feasibility studies completed for facility rehabilitation and a new partnership with the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation under the BRIDGE project supported by Global Affairs Canada.
MMSU's Bannuar TBI Is Building the Ilocos Region's Technology Startup Pipeline. From a P12.7 Million Launch to Its First Graduates, Here Is What It Has Built So Far.
The MMSU Bannuar Technology Business Incubator, the first HEIRIT-TBI in Region I funded by DOST-PCIEERD at P12.7 million, has moved from its 2023 launch to its first batch of graduates, its first MOA with food startup incubatees, a second TBI in the pipeline for agri-fishery enterprises, and a vision to become the center for research-based technology commercialization in Northern Luzon.
DTI Ilocos Region Is Telling MSMEs to Adapt or Fall Behind. It Is Also Handing Them the Tools to Do It.
DTI Ilocos Region Director Merlie Membrere used a virtual government service forum to call on MSMEs across the region to adapt and innovate in the face of changing consumer behavior, rising costs, and global competition, while announcing the first batch of 57 mentees under this year's Kapatid Mentor ME program, supported by DOST, DOLE, BIR, and the Intellectual Property Office.
Lagayan, Abra Is Becoming a Tourism Capital. It Is Doing It With Filipino-Made Electric Vehicles and Smart Mobility Technology.
The Municipality of Lagayan, Abra, as the pilot LGU for DOST's Smart and Sustainable Community Program in the province, has begun preparing for the deployment of e-mobility technologies through a benchmarking visit to UP Diliman, CHRG Electric Vehicle Technologies, and Tojo Motors Corporation, with Mayor Edmarc Crisologo leading the initiative alongside DOST-Abra.
Baguio Just Held Its Biggest MSME Gathering of the Year. Here Is What the 2026 MSME Innovation Summit Delivered.
The 2026 MSME Innovation Summit, themed "NextGen MSMEs: Innovating for Impact," was held on May 29 and 30 at the University of the Cordilleras Theater, convening entrepreneurs, innovators, national government agencies, financing institutions, universities, and business solution partners from Alibaba to GCash in a two-day free summit designed to help Baguio and Benguet enterprises start, grow, and compete in the next economy.
She Built SPC Juice to Help Her Cousin. Her Cousin Did Not Live to See How Far It Has Come.
The founder of Vidad Food Processing, Darizel C. Vidad of Brgy. Binacag, Banna, Ilocos Norte, developed a sweet potato with calamansi juice from a college feasibility study, transforming it from a product with a 2-day shelf life to one with a 2-month shelf life at room temperature and up to 5 months when refrigerated, into an FDA-eLTO-approved food enterprise, and representing Region 1 at the National Young Farmers Challenge Season 5 in April 2026. The people who inspired her most did not make it to that stage, but she kept going anyway.
May 18, 2026
Destined to Hustle, Designed to Deliver. How Disenyo Digitals Is Closing the Creative Gap in Northern Luzon.
Jennifer Fuentes Castro of Destine Events and Disenyo Digitals started with a single creative gathering during a transition period after working overseas. What grew from it is a creative and digital solutions platform now working with LGUs, training young creatives, and building the kind of regional creative economy that Northern Luzon has always had the talent for but not always the infrastructure to support.
May 12, 2026
For the Millions, Not the Millionaires — How Alam Mo Ba Baguio Is Giving Baguio's Small Businesses the Visibility They Were Never Getting
Josh Inman and co-founder Karen Perez launched Alam Mo Ba Baguio in November 2025 to solve a problem they lived personally — and in six months, the platform has clocked over 60,000 unique visits and advertised more than 1,000 events, activities, and deals from Baguio's small business community.
May 8, 2026
She Went Looking for Cacao and Found Farmers Who Had Already Given Up. Eva Padua Decided That Was Not the End of the Story.
Eva Ritchelle D. Padua started Dulche Chocolates in Baguio City as a chocolate lover who wanted to make healthier bars. She ended up becoming the Cordillera's first bean-to-bar chocolate producer, a DOST grant recipient, a BPI Sinag national winner, and the founder of an enterprise that now exports to five countries — built on a promise she made to farmers she had never planned to meet.
May 4, 2026
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