REQUIRING ALL PHILIPPINE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR POSTS TO ASSIST IN ORGANIZING EXPATRIATE FILIPINO SCIENTISTS, TECHNOLOGISTS, ENGINEERS, AND ALLIED PROFESSIONALS IN THEIR JURISD…

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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 Philippine
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.

(Sgd.) FIDEL
V. RAMOS
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) RUBEN D. TORRES
Executive Secretary

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