Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) acting secretary Manny Caintic said his agency will review existing protocols to address the concern of Independent Tower Companies (ITCs) that permits are still not being issued fast enough by government instrumentalities.
The DICT, which serves as the regulatory authority over courier and delivery operators in the country, relayed its expectations to industry players during a recent consultation meeting.
It was just recently made known that as many as 800 teachers from Quezon City who will serve in the May 9 elections have not yet been issued digital signatures.
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.
