Midterm

Week 8
Science and Technology During the 5th Republic (Corazon Aquino - Gloria Arroyo)

Corazon Aquino - Privatized the Philippine Airlines

- De-monopolized Philippines Long
 1986- 1992 Distance Telephone Company
- The first woman President of the
Philippines and in Asian Country JOSEPH ESTRADA
- Prominent figure in the People Power
Revolution  1998-2001
- Abolished Marcos dictatorship - A first film actor president of the
- Restored democracy Philippines
 In 1986, the National Science and - He faced impeachment
Technology Authority was replaced by the - He ran unsuccessfully for president in
Department of Science and Technology, 2010
giving science and technology a - The launching of the Mobile Information
representation in the cabinet. Technology Classroom
- The strengthening of National computer
 On August 8, 1988, created the Presidential
center
Task Force for Science and Technology
- The creation of Job Net
which came up with the first Science and
- Regional Food Microbiology
Technology Master Plan or STMP. The goal
Laboratories
of STMP was for the Philippines to achieve
newly industrialized country status by the GLORIA ARROYO
year 2000.
 2000- encouraged scientists and inventors to  2001-2010
bring the Philippines to its former position as - First to take outside the Philippines
second to only Japan in the field of science - Professor of Benigno Aquino III in
and technology. Only of the goals of her Ateneo de Manila University
administration was to achieve the status as - Ex- classmate of the former US
being an industrialized country by 2000 President Bill Clinton
o Science and technology’s role in economic - “Filipinnovation”
recovery and sustained economic growth - R.A. 9367 or the “Biofuels” act
o Reorganization of Philippine bureaucracy that - Drought- free rice
Executive Order No. 128 abolished R.A No. - Republic Act 10601 which improves the
3859, also known as the “Philippine Agriculture and Fisheries Sector through
Inventors Incentive Act.” Mechanization (AFMech)
o R.A. 6655 or the Free Public Secondary
Education together with this was the “Science
for the Masses Program”
o The Family Code was legalized on July 6,
1987= The basic law covering persons and
family relations governs marriages, legal
separations, property relations between
spouses, and parental authority, among others.

Fidel Ramos

 1992- 1998
- Chief of staff of the armed forces of the
Philippines before becoming the
president
- The first non- catholic president of the
Philippines
- Issued licenses to independent power
procedures (IPP) to provide additional
power plants.
- Philippines 2000