President Aquino signed Republic Act 10844 on May 23 establishing the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) as the primary policy, planning, coordinating, and implementing entity in the government that will promote the national ICT development agenda. All offices in this field now with the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) will be placed under DICT. The DOTC, to be renamed Department of Transportation, will deal exclusively with transportation.
The creation of DICT is seen as an enabler for the ICT industry, and as an important step towards more widespread use of e-governance services, and increased cyber security.
