00:00Okay, so sir, how do you think important is this kind of export in terms of showcasing the innovations and grassroots love?
00:07Well, I think it's just really uplifting. I think here in the Philippines, I mean I've been to every province,
00:13and you can see how local communities are really disc-a-arte. But in this case too, disc-a-arte, they're just leveling it up now
00:19and applying more science and technology to make it very usable all over the country and all over the world.
00:24So it's very just uplifting to see, and it makes you a very proud Filipino.
00:28What's your experience here at the NSDW for the past few days? What have you learned so far?
00:34So, I just got here yesterday, but I mean, having seen a lot of what the DRST's been up to, especially the past five years,
00:41it's been really interesting, very, very cool. Like I went to the Centennial Arena, and when I went there, for example,
00:49you see the different umbrella agencies. So let's say I went to the FPRDI, and you look, I'm like, oh, what's this?
00:55I've developed, for example, school desks made in engineered bamboo. But then they're also not just that.
01:01If there's a typhoon and you have to turn the school into a relief center, the desks actually transform and flip and become beds.
01:08So the DRST and local Filipinos are really thinking outside the box of what can be really helpful in society.
01:14I don't know if you guys saw yesterday, they put up the first bamboo waiting shed, or I don't know if you went into the hybrid electric train.
01:21You know, so it's just, it's been really fun, and it was really, really great.
01:25It's seeing a lot of youth and a lot of young students visiting these different exhibits or expos, or like, here today at JICE,
01:32and giving themselves this kind of new mindset to think outside the box, and to see if they apply themselves or study what they could possibly create.
01:40So I think this whole kind of thing really plays really well into that kind of discarding ingenuity side of Filipino culture.
01:46What do I love the most about the Philippines?
01:49What do I love the most about the Philippines? Well, Filipinos themselves.
01:52But I think it's just the idea, in the Philippines, we don't really say no.
01:57It's like, there's no, we can't do it. It's more, wait a minute, we're going to figure this out and figure out a way to do it.
02:02And I think that's what you're seeing when you come to these kind of things that the DUST puts on.
02:06It's that, hey, look, you know what, we're not going to just waste this tire.
02:10We're going to turn it into something that can be really cool, or, you know what, our house is sinking?
02:15Nah, we're going to make it float, you know?
02:17Filipinos, that's what really gets me excited.
02:19This yes attitude will figure it out.
02:22You've seen the Philippines and this particular department focuses on the grassroots in different areas.
02:29How about the support of the government is focusing or giving funds to these people to have this kind of inclusivity?
02:37And how about finding chances for them for whatever technology that they have?
02:41So I think what's really interesting is, especially being somebody who's traveled around the country for the past 12 years,
02:45and seeing the growth of technology nowadays, and especially with media, you know, how we can all kind of, I think,
02:51probably nowadays, you can go almost anywhere in the country,
02:55to these very, very rural communities, and they're online.
02:59They're connected, so a lot of them see Facebook, right?
03:01So what's really nice is nowadays seeing the government go into these rural communities,
03:06and also help them develop, and then also give them opportunities to share on a national level,
03:11and possibly get more funding or more support, or not even just national support, but international.
03:16You know, you have the UNDP coming in, or you have, I think, ADB,
03:19and different, these kind of organizations that can help fund and develop.
03:23I think it's really positive.
03:24Also, I mean, let's just be very honest and blunt.
03:28He's been very tense lately, right, in the Philippines.
03:31And I think what's really nice, though, I mean, even, it doesn't really matter what side you're on.
03:37What matters is when you look at this, grassroots is an all-around-the-country thing,
03:42and it brings us together.
03:44So I think this is a very awesome thing for Filipinos to latch onto,
03:48and grow together as a country and as people, regardless of what side of the fence you sit on.
03:53You know, it's just very, very an uplifting thing that can bring us together more,
03:57which I think the country really needs.
03:59Oh, man!
04:29You
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