DTI-CAR, DICT-CAR, and StartUp Village Launched "Certified Digital Negosyo," a Full-Stack Digital Training for Cordillera MSMEs That Goes From AI Tools to Tax Filing
Apr 23, 2026
DTI Apayao Trained 16 Kabugao Coffee Farmers in Bean Grading to Close the Gap Between Farm Quality and Market Price
Apr 22, 2026
Twenty Cagayan Valley MSMEs Sold ₱2.9 Million at the National Food Fair in Five Days. Here Is What That Number Actually Means.
Apr 22, 2026
Two UC Senior High School Students From Baguio Won the 2026 National Robotics Championship. Now They Represent the Philippines in China.
Apr 21, 2026
The US and Philippines Are Building a 4,000-Acre AI Industrial Hub in Luzon. Here Is What It Could Mean for Northern Luzon.
Apr 21, 2026
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Santa Barbara
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Batac, Ilocos Norte
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Baguio City
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Baguio City
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Baguio City
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Baguio City
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Baguio City
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Baguio City
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Cauayan City, Isabela
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Baguio City
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Baguio City
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Baguio City
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Two UC Senior High School Students From Baguio Won the 2026 National Robotics Championship. Now They Represent the Philippines in China.
Zyrus Whayne Naganag and John Victor Advincula of UC SHS defeated teams from 15 regions at the TechQuest National Robotics Challenge for Academia on April 16–17, 2026 in Makati, taking the champion title, the Best Robot Design Award, and a slot at an international robotics competition in China.
The US and Philippines Are Building a 4,000-Acre AI Industrial Hub in Luzon. Here Is What It Could Mean for Northern Luzon.
Announced on April 16, 2026, the Luzon Economic Corridor's new economic security zone targets semiconductors, critical minerals, and AI-powered manufacturing. The hub is still conceptual, but its supply chain implications are already real for the region sitting on top of some of the Philippines' most critical mineral reserves.
San Vicente, Ilocos Sur Ran a Kakanin Innovation Competition. The Brief Was Simple: Preserve the Tradition, Win the Modern Market.
The Innovative Kakanin Competition at the Rambak ti Kankanen nga Ilocano on April 21, 2026, challenged participants to preserve traditional Ilocano rice delicacies while redesigning them for today's consumers, running alongside the Kayamanan Trade Fair and One Kadiwa inside the San Vicente Muebles Festival.
A €60M EU Programme Just Opened a Youth Startup Track for Cordillera Founders
Circle Works, backed by the EU-PH Green Economy Partnership's €60 million fund, opened its Baguio leg on April 13, 2026, at the University of Baguio, offering students a structured pathway from circular economy concept to funded green venture.
DOST Ilocos Region Releases ₱6.4 Million in Tech Upgrades to Six MSMEs Across Ilocos Sur, La Union, and Pangasinan
Dubbed "Batch SIBOL," the second SETUP cohort of 2026 includes a ricemill, a food products company, a printing shop, a woodworks firm, a chicken dealer, and a mushroom farm, covering three provinces in one release.
BFAR-CAR Brought Cordillera Fisherfolk Leaders to a Working Hatchery and a Crayfish Farm to Show What Aquaculture Innovation Looks Like in Practice
A two-day benchmarking and consultation workshop on April 7–8, 2026, put fisherfolk leaders from across Cordillera directly inside the MITH-i hatchery system and a regulated crayfish facility, pairing hands-on learning with policy clarity and a leadership election.
He Joined a Government Competition Just to Get the Certificate. His Bean Chicharon Ended Up in Switzerland.
Ryan Rebolledo of FRANS Food Processing in Tabuk City, Kalinga, started Beancharon as a classroom feasibility study. It is now a DA-grant-funded, DTI-registered enterprise that won at the provincial and regional levels of the Young Farmers Challenge and is heading to the national stage.
Apr 23, 2026
He Did Not Want to Waste a Single Strawberry. Now He Is Building a Premium Wine Brand That Tastes Like Benguet.
John Glenn Libag is a fourth-year student in La Trinidad who turned a supply problem into Bo-oy Food Products — a circular, zero-waste enterprise built entirely around the strawberry, and one of the most quietly ambitious young ventures in the Cordillera.
Mar 20, 2026
Geneva Gañalon Started a Duck Farm in La Union. Now She Is Building an Agri-Tourism Enterprise That Employs Mothers and Out-of-School Youth.
G's Duckery Food Processing in Bacnotan is what happens when a young farmer decides that a duck farm can be more than a duck farm — and builds a social enterprise around that belief.
Mar 20, 2026
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