President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who also chairs the National Innovation Council (NIC), has approved the 2022-2023 National Innovation Agenda and Strategy Document (NIASD), a 10-year plan to improve the country’s innovation governance, Malacañang said.
Under the NIASD, the government aims to make Filipinos proactive, smart, and innovative by improving the country’s education and healthcare system, the Palace said.
“It also plans to secure proper and affordable nutrition while providing income to local producers, and further improve financial and digital literacy as well as manufacturing and trade.”
The NIC said by 2032, Filipinos will have accessible energy resources; efficient, inclusive and safe land, water and air transportation, as well as reliable government institutions.
“Chapter 8 of the PDP (Philippine Development Plan) elaborates on this strategy by situating it within the continuum of research and development, innovation, technology adoption, then commercialization,” Socio-economic Planning Secretary Arsenio Balisacan Balisacan, vice chair of the NIC, said Saturday in a statement.
The NIC is a 25-member policy advisory body consisting of 16 department secretaries and seven executive members from the private sector.