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The Executive Director of the ICT Office of the Department of Science and Technology, Louis Napoleon Casambre said yesterday that around 93% of the country may have access to free Wi-Fi services by the end of the year.
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‘Yung remaining 7 percent, ‘yan ‘yung mahirap pasukin like ‘yung Turtle Island, but we will look for other solutions for them — DOST Undersecretary Louis Napoleon Casambre to ABS-CBN News

Once fully implemented, it will be subjected to data volume based Fair Usage Policy to promote an equitable distribution of the public service. The daily data usage is set to 50MB to manage the estimated 117,000 internet users who will access the free WiFi service across the country.

The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Office has asked for a P3.2 billion budget for 2017 to fund and complete this project.

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In Davao City, a man named Jose Guardo Jr., developed a new magnetic levitation (Maglev) system that could pave the way to better transit solutions. According to Sun Star Davao, it will be the third Maglev system after Germany and Japan.

Guardo’s invertion works using the gyroscopic spin induced Lenz’s law. “It uses a permanent magnet that is twisted, then returned to the conductor (can be aluminum or copper), and then refilled, causing the train to levitate.”, the local news source said. This method is different from Japan and Germany.

Their team is currently looking for potential investors to make the project come to life and the national goverment, through Department of Science and Technology-Technology Application and Promotion Institute (DOST-TAPI), is willing to help and finance Guardo’s vision.

A test trail and an incubation center will be constructed, to be shared with other inventors, once funding pushed through.

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