OneStore Hub soon at press club?

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Science and Technology and Filipino Inventors Society Producers Cooperative have forged a pact with the National Press Club for the establishment of a DOST-FISPC Inventrepreneurs’ OneStore Hub at the NPC building in Intramuros, Manila.

Science Secretary Fortunato dela Peña, FISPC president and CEO Francisco Pagayon and newly elected NPC president Rolando Gonzalo signed last month a memorandum of understanding for the building of a OneStore Hub at the NPC complex located along Magallanes Drive in Intramuros district.

Also signatories to the MOU signing were DOST Region 2 director and onestore.ph national program leader Sancho Mabborang; DOST National Capital Region director Jose Patalinjug III, DOST Region 1 director Armand Ganal, DOST Cordillera Administrative Region officer-in-charge Nancy Bantog and DOST Region 3 director Julius Caesar Sicat.

Dela Peña welcomed the partnership forged by the DOST with the inventors cooperative as well as the country’s oldest organization of journalists to further help micro, small to medium enterprises (MSMEs), as well as inventor-entrepreneurs sell their products to a wider public.

“With this partnership, the MSMEs assisted by the DOST and the inventor-entrepreneurs we help in developing their inventions and ideas will have another venue to showcase their products in the home of our country’s respected journalists,” Dela Peña said.

Gonzalo, for his part, said the presence of OneStore Hub in the NPC compound will allow MSME business owners especially struggling inventor-entrepreneurs to introduce their products to media members who can write or feature them in their respective outlets.

He pointed out that the NPC complex, beside Jones Bridge, is a a strategic location near the Binondo shopping district of Manila.