00:00Resourceful, creative, innovative, how do Filipinos make do with so less to find ways
00:05and means when financial work with all is absent?
00:09And in Davao City, an exposition of homegrown products or creations were showcased, men
00:14of which cater to the service grassroots communities.
00:17Philippine Information Agency Davao's Genevieve Abangan reports.
00:24Filipinos are naturally innovative.
00:26It can be found in the things created to address the needs of our everyday lives.
00:30Department of Science and Technology Secretary Renata Solidum recently attended the Grassroots
00:35Innovations and Circular Economy Expo held in Davao City, which showcased several grassroots
00:41innovations.
00:42Grassroots innovations as local solutions, although often supported by limited resources,
00:47contribute to inclusive and sustainable development.
00:52The implementation of GRIND through its 4L framework, learning, leveraging, linking and
01:00legitimizing, brings our grassroots innovators or GRITORs.
01:06Presented at the expo were more than 600 grassroots innovations documented under the Grassroots
01:10Innovations for Inclusive Development or the GRIND program.
01:14Our innovation, our S&T interventions should be inclusive.
01:20It means that it should include everyone, including those in our grassroots communities
01:27because they are the ones who really need S&T interventions so that they can use S&T
01:34or Science and Technology in their businesses, in their livelihoods.
01:38Creative and affordable inventions are among those showcased in the expo.
01:43One of these innovations is the Do-It-Yourself Egg Incubator from Panabo City.
01:48From PIA Davao, Genevieve Abangan for Balitang Pampansa.
