The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) aims to raise the Philippines’ innovation and technology quotient to strengthen local economies and grow their industries while focusing on making the country relevant in digitalisation and Web 3.0 conversation.įor Makati City, long a centre for the country’s biggest businesses, the move is in response to Metro Manila’s low ranking in the latest Global Startup Ecosystem Index (GSEI) which ranks startup ecosystems across 1000 cities and 100 countries around the world. Specifically, DTI-BOI has partnered with Makati City’s Resilience Innovation Sustainability and Entrepreneurship (RISE) Certification Program and a public sector for technology movement to form the Innovative Cities Initiative. At the onset, the City of Makati was chosen as the program’s pilot in the collaboration setting the premier city up to be the country’s homegrown version of Silicon Valley - the global centre of high technology and innovation in Northern California. It plans to link the local government units, the academe, and the private sector in creating multiple centres of excellence. There are children and women-friendly spaces, psycho-social interventions, modular tents, mobile showers, and provision for food and non-food relief assistance.In an initiative called Innovative Cities, the Department of Trade and Industry, Board of Investments (DTI-BOI) has partnered with the private sector to tech up one Philippine city at a time. I am proud that Makati’s DRRMO and MSWD disaster response teams are well-trained and well-equipped to provide our constituents holistic social services during disasters,” Binay said.īesides covering basic needs, Binay made sure the evacuation center was complete with facilities, spaces, and services that are responsive to the specific needs of the evacuees. “An evacuation and assistance center is only a primary response to an emergency situation, but people need more than that. They have been given food, water, clothes, and blankets to keep warm. The mayor said modular tents were put up so the affected residents would have a place to sleep and keep whatever belongings they were able to rescue. San Isidro, the MSWD and DRRMO quickly set up an evacuation and assistance center at the barangay covered court. Following the fire that razed a residential area and displaced some 170 families in Brgy.
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