Plans to make Pasig and Caloocan into “smart and sustainable” cities were turned over by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) to their respective local governments on Monday.
The plans were created by technical working groups in collaboration with the Pasig and Caloocan governments to focus on science, technology and innovation (STI), DOST Secretary Renato Solidum Jr. said in his keynote address at the 2025 celebration of National Capital Region (NCR) Science, Technology and Innovation Week in Quezon City.
“We deliberately used the term smart and sustainable communities because we want to emphasize that progress must reach everyone, not just those in urban centers, not just those with resources and not just those with access,” Solidum explained.
“What we strive for is the balance of both, technology that empowers people and development that can endure,” he added.
Pasig and Caloocan’s STI plans were the third and fourth such plans in the region to be turned over to their local governments, after Quezon City and Muntinlupa in 2024, according to DOST NCR technical support services assistant director Bianca Claudette Canlas in a press conference at the celebration.
Canlas cited that the challenge to the “smart and sustainable” cities plans was to ensure that marginalized and vulnerable groups, like persons with disabilities, senior citizens, and people who have digital illiteracy.
Nonetheless, citing a 2024 study, Solidum said 70 percent of local government units across the country already have a plan to become a “smart” city.
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