Eight women-led social enterprises that received start-up grants from the Department of Science and Technology marked the end of their 10-month start-up incubation with a networking event dubbed “Tens of Nets: The WHWise – iBLEnDNICE 4 WomEn Networking Days.”
Tens of Nets, a palindrome in reference to the exponential power of networking, is supported under DOST’s “Women Helping Women Innovating Social Enterprises: innovation thru Building and Leveraging Entrepreneurship Development, Networking and Inclusive Community Engagement Program for Women Entrepreneurs” also known as WHWISE:iBLenDNICE 4 WomEn program.
DOST has partnered with three academic institutions that served as Technology Business Incubators for all eight start-ups namely, iDEYA run by Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Miriam College-TBI run by Miriam College, and UPGRADE InnoLab Inc. run by the University of the Philippines-Mindanao.