Pres.

Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo (2001-2010)

Presented by:
Herberto B. Bayang Jr.
Dhereck Ong
Jake Nathaniel Daen
Bryan Kevin Miranda

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 Pres. Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo (2001-2010)

- Served as president of the Republic of the

- The country's second female president.

- She was also the country's first female vice

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LET’S START

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Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo’s
accomplishment(s)

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who is she? Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
(2001-2010)
• Macapagal was born April 5, 1947.
• Her father was Diosdado Macapagal, who later served as Philippine president
from 1961 to 1965.
• She studied at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and graduated magna
cum laude from Assumption College with a bachelor's degree in commerce.

• She earned a master's degree in economics from the Ateneo de Manila University,
and a master's degree and Ph.D. in economics from the University of the
Philippines.
• She began her professional career as a teacher at Assumption College.
• She later became an assistant professor at the Ateneo de Manila University and a
senior lecturer at the UP School of Economics.

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 Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's
contributions in Science and Technology

Phil GEPS

First, The Electronic Procurement System, one initiative of government to improve and moderness government
procurements services. It involves the creation and operation of a central and portal of government document. Binding
and supplying information requirements and the intensiveness of the portal among government agencies. The
electronic procurement system is expected to attain transparency in public procurement activities.

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Filipino Strategic Areas of Innovation
First ever national innovation summit 2007, the national innovation called Filipinnovation was presented
to the president to increase the productivity from science and technology moreover the term
Filipinnovation contagiously picking the Philippines to be one that produce innovator in Asia. President
Arroyo took off from the ground. Work science and technology, plans and policies in accomplishment.

Filipinnovation took the essence of achievement making the technology the foundation of future
Economics development.

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Biofuels offer greater energy security, reduced emissions of greenhouse gases and particulates, rural
development, better vehicle performance, and reduced demand for petroleum. With the purpose of achieving
energy self-sufficiency and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, Philippines enacted the Biofuels Act of
2006, also known as the Republic Act No. 9367. It mandates the blending of bioethanol to gasoline and
biodiesel to petroleum diesel.

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The Strong Republic Nautical Highway is a 919-kilometer nautical highway system of ports and roads
developed by the Arroyo administration to connect the major islands of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.

Through its establishment, shipping lines plying its routes are able to reduce the usual travel time by 17
hours to different key cities. It also helped enhance the accessibility of prime tourist destinations, and
minimize the handling expenses of goods all over the country. The concept of this is something that
could revolutionize not just business and agriculture in our islands, provinces, but also domestic
tourism.

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Republic Act 10601 “Agricultural and Fisheries Mechanization Law of 2012”
- refers to the development, adaptation, manufacture and cost effective agricultural and
fisheries machinery using human, animal, mechanical and electrical, renewable and
other nonconventional sources of energy for agricultural production (pre-postharvest
production) operations towards modernization of agricultural and fisheries. (Section
3.b)
- Covers research, development, and extension (RDE), promotion, distribution, supply,
assembling, manufacturing, regulation, use, operation, maintenance, and public
implementation of agricultural and fisheries machinery and equipment (Section.4)

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President Arroyo took off from the groundwork of S&T polices put in place, resulting in the
accomplishment of five broad tiers of S&T programs. These programs include research and
development program, S&T human resource development services, S&T promotion and information
services, and scientific linkages and international cooperation.

With regard to S&T education, the challenge is to provide the environment for the youth to learn and
hone their skills to become achievers. Their future innovations are expected to generate more jobs, and
turn out new products and services. In this light, for new Philippine Science High School Campuses
were established during her term.

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 S&T undergraduate scholarship program
aims to stimulate and entice talented Filipino youths to pursue lifetime production careers in science and
technology and ensure a steady, adequate supply of qualified S&T human resources which can steer the country
towards national progress.

 Republic Act No 7687 “Science and technology Scholarship Act 1994”

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 Under the Executive Order 583, the NSC and EDRT was established by President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo at University of the Philippines Diliman.

National Science Complex of the College of Science (NSC) has three phases:

(1) involved the completion of the buildings of the National Institute of Physics and the NSC road network.
(2) the construction of buildings for the Institute of Chemistry, Institute of Biology and the National Institute
for Microbiology and Biotechnology (NIMBB).
(3) involved completion of the NIMBB and construction of the Institute of Environmental Science and
Meteorology, the College of Science Administration building as well as technology incubation centers.

The ERDT, or the Engineering Research and Development for Technology was established to:
• deliver high impact research aligned with the country’s National Science and Technology Plan and the
Medium-Term Development Plan;
• to attain a critical mass of MS and PhD graduates;
• to upgrade the qualifications of practicing engineers and to develop a culture of Research and
Development.

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