Ex-SC CIO is new CICT chair

Manila, PHILIPPINES (Newsbytes.ph) — Ivan Uy, a lawyer who used to be the chief information officer of the Supreme Court, has been named the new chairman of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), various sources have confirmed.

Prior to his new appointment, Uy was the president of the CIO Forum Foundation, an association of government CIOs.

As the SC’s CIO during the time of Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban, he led wide-ranging IT implementation in the country’s judiciary system. He was also in charge in the dissemination in the legal profession of the IRR (implementing rules and regulation) of the E-Commerce Law.

Uy, a former professor at the UP College of Law, is regarded as one of the few lawyers in the country who has firm grasp of the complex IT issues and local tech sector.

His appointment to the CICT is considered by observers as an indication that new Aquino administration will keep — and not abolish, yet — the country’s main ICT policy-making body.

Uy was not in the initial shortlist of candidates to head the CICT. One of those who reportedly considered for the post were IBM Philippines executive Bambi Sevilla, a classmate of Aquino at Ateneo de Manila University. (Melvin Calimag / Newsbytes Philippines)