The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) officially launched Tech Trends, an awareness program on disruptive innovations and emerging technologies on Thursday, April 28.
The DICT is set to provide cloud hosting of the Comelec’s online services, which includes the Registration Status Verifier, Precinct Finder, Online Voter Certification Application, and the National and Local Election Results Website.
Louis Casambre, the first and last executive director of the ICT Office, the predecessor of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), has died.
The DICT said preliminary findings suggest that a hack was not possible due to the Vote-Counting Machine (VCM) system being offline and the lack of existing data on the Automated Election System (AES) that could be breached.
DICT acting secretary Emmanuel Rey R. Caintic led on Tuesday, Jan. 11, the oath-taking and induction ceremony of the new officers and Board of Trustees of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP) via video conference.
National Privacy Commission (NPC) deputy commissioner John Henry Naga has been appointed as the new chair of the data privacy agency while Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) undersecretary Emmanuel “Manny” Caintic has been designated as the acting secretary at the ICT agency, a highly-placed source told Newsbytes.PH.
Sen. Ralph Recto said instead of replicating or doing redundant investments in areas that already have Internet coverage, the DICT should concentrate on underserved and unserved areas.