Standing committee of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
The Philippine House Committee on Information and Communications Technology, or House Information and Communications Technology Committee is a standing committee of the Philippine House of Representatives.
Jurisdiction
As prescribed by House Rules, the committee's jurisdiction includes the following:[1]
- Any and all other public and private electronic means of capturing, processing, storing and transmitting of information for information technology
- Information systems including hardware, software and content applications
- Mobile short messaging system (SMS) applications affecting upstream and downstream business application
- Networks that enable access to online technology
- Postal, telegraph, radio, broadcast, cable television, telephone, convergence, computers and telecommunications technologies including but not limited to broadband access to wired and wireless connectivity to the internet such as voice over internet protocol (VOIP), video conferencing and audio/video/data streaming
