(10 Feb 2023) -- Philippine university representatives visited the Philippine Embassy in Jakarta for a courtesy call on 10 February 2023 to share their recent experience in Indonesia related to empowering women-led social enterprises, in partnership with the Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya. The Women Helping Women Innovating Social Enterprises (WHWise) is a program of the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development under the Department of Science and Technology focusing on supporting women entrepreneurs access technology solutions for their business. Three Philippine universities implement this program thru the iBLENDnICE 4WomEn program: Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (project lead), Miriam College (co-implementer), and UP Mindanao (co-implementer).

The iBLENDnICE 4WomEn provides an incubation program tuned with gender and social enterprise lenses to enable an ecosystem of support for women entrepreneurs. The program includes learning labs and dedicated mentoring from the program's intensive network of partners, with complementary funding provided by DOST-PCIEERD to the social enterprises.