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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 270 - REQUIRING
ALL PHILIPPINE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR POSTS TO ASSIST IN ORGANIZING
EXPATRIATE FILIPINO SCIENTISTS, TECHNOLOGISTS, ENGINEERS, AND ALLIED
PROFESSIONALS IN THEIR JURISDICTIONS INTO OVERSEAS CHAPTERS OF
(PHILIPPINE) SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY COUNCILS (STACs)
WHEREAS, overseas chapters of
Science and Technology Advisory Councils (STACs) have been organized by
Filipinos in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Chicago, Detroit, Houston, New Orleans, Honolulu, Ottawa, Vancouver,
Toronto, Stockholm, Vienna and Bangkok;
WHEREAS, the said chapters of STACs have been supporting the Science
and Technology (S & T) thrusts of the Philippines by monitoring
scientific and technological developments abroad, facilitating
technology transfers, and performing voluntary consulting work, and
functioning as conduits of assistance for beneficiary groups in the
Philippines;
WHEREAS, the National Security Council (NSC) has proposed that the
foreign-based STACs be utilized in Philippine capacity-building for
technology assessments, acquisitions and referral;
WHEREAS, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) acts as the
advisory agency in identifying the S & T requirements for tapping
foreign-based scientists as information sources;
WHEREAS, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in collaboration with
the DOST serves as the coordinating body in the Philippines in matching
the country’s S & T requirements with expertise of foreign-based
scientists through STACnet;
WHEREAS, members of STACs have proven to be effective in tapping
foreign-based scientists as information source in coordination with the
DFA, thus supporting NSC and DOST in the Science and Technology Agenda
for National Development;
WHEREAS, members of STCs are linked worldwide through STACnet, an
electronic mail facility in the Internet, a global communications
network, thus enabling them to gather and move information faster;
WHEREAS, the first Philippine hook-up to the Internet was made possible
by STACnet, proof of their determination to bring new technology to the
Philippines;
WHEREAS, members of STACs have created a means to reverse the
“brain-drain” of Filipino experts through their “brain-gain” program;
WHEREAS, the said chapters of STACs and their volunteer members are
valuable partners in the economic development of the Philippines,
contributing to overall efforts to achieve the status of newly
industrializing country by the year 2000.
WHEREAS, in cities wherein Philippine Embassies and Consulates are
located, there is still a large number of untapped expatriate Filipino
scientists, technologists, engineers, and applied professional who have
expressed their willingness and desire to organize new STAC chapters;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order all
Diplomatic and Consular Posts through the Secretary of Foreign Affairs
to assist in organizing expatriate Filipino scientists, technologists,
engineers, and allied professionals in their jurisdictions into
overseas chapters of the Science and Technology Advisory Council.
This order shall take effect immediately.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 9th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety-five.
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