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CICT- A Brief History

The Commission on Information and Communications Technology or the CICT was created under Executive Order 269 in January 2004 to serve as the primary policy, planning, coordinating, implementing, regulating and administrative entity of the executive branch of the Government that will promote, develop, and regulate integrated and strategic ICT systems and reliable and cost-efficient communication facilities and services. The National Computer Center (NCC), Telecommunications Office (Telof) and the Communications component of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) will form part of the CICT with the National Telecommunications (NTC) and the Philippine Postal Corporation (PPC) as attached agencies.  With the transfer of the NTC back to DOTC by Executive Order 454 on August 2005 and Telof and the DOTC Communications on February 2007, the CICT today is manned by NCC personnel and the Office of Chairman and a few others from Telof to handle admin matters. CICT at present is headed by Chairman Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua III. Commisioners who head the different groups, Commissioner Angelo Timoteo M. Diaz de Rivera for eGoverment ,Commissioner Monchito B. Ibrahim for Cyber Services and newly appointee Com. Atty. Consuelo S. Perez for Human Capital Development Group.