The DOST Advanced Science and Technology Institute is a research and development organization based in the

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. It is one of the research and development institutes of the Department of Science and Technology of the Philippine government.

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information and communications technology Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computer ...

and

microelectronics Microelectronics is a subfield of electronics. As the name suggests, microelectronics relates to the study and manufacture (or microfabrication) of very small electronic designs and components. Usually, but not always, this means micrometre ...

led to the establishment of the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) in the 1980s. The National Science and Technology Authority (NSTA) was renamed and reorganized as the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in 1987 by then President

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. The ASTI itself was established on January 30, 1987, through ''Executive Order No. 128'' issued by Aquino. The institute became one of the government's agency which focuses on the field of research and development, information and communications technology and microelectronics.

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