IT bill OK’d

THE House of Representatives has approved on second reading the bill proposing the creation of a Department of Information and Communication Technology.

The authors, led by Camarines Sur Rep. Luis Villafuerte and Camarines Sur. Rep. Diosdado Macapagal-Arroyo, said that the proposal will prevent the country from being left out of the sprinting pace of development in the area of information andcommunications technology.

Speaker Prospero Nograles praised the members of Congress for the immediate action on the House Bill 4300, which he said will ensure a focused attention on a really fast-evolving and increasingly complex global technological phenomenon.

The measure proposed splitting the Department of Transportation and Communication into two departments.

“Our future would depend on our competitiveness and grasp of modern technologies.

Almost every day, new breakthroughs are announced in the IT field. New technologies are becoming more compact but are more powerful. We have to be at pace with technology,” Nograles said.

Other principal authors of the measures are Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez; Paranaque Rep. Roilo Golez; Sorsogon Rep. Jose Solis; Cebu Rep. Pablo John Garcia; Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara; Northern Samar Rep. Paul Daza; Tarlac Rep. Jesli Lapus; and Western Samar Rep. Sharee Ann Tan.
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