Government

Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT)

Government Agency

The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is the executive agency that leads the overall management on ICT development agenda. It aims at developing the advancement of ICT while boosting nation building and safeguarding information through ICT.

The DICT was created in 2016 via Republic Act 10844, replacing the Commission on Information and Communications Technology or CICT.

The department is led by the Secretary of Information and Communications Technology, who is appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress through the Commission on Appointments.

Acronym	DICT
Legal Mandate	Republic Act No. 10844
Date Established	May 23, 2016
Headquarters	C.P. Garcia Ave., Diliman, Quezon City
Website	https://dict.gov.ph/

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*comprises —% of the total national budget

P 19,491,495,000

Breakdown of the Budget

The total amount reflected above includes all automatically appropriated funds but excludes unprogrammed appropriations for the selected year.

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Source: Department of Budget and Management

DICT budget by programs and operating unit

Do you want to see how the Department of Information and Communications Technology allocates its budget to its various programs, activities, and projects? You can view the breakdown of the funding by program by the implementing office through the filters in the column.

NOTE: By default, the table displays the budget for the selected operating unit for the chosen fiscal year. To navigate across years, you can select the year you wish to view using the filter icon in the Fiscal Year column.

You can also filter items by Object of Expenditure or Expense Class, depending on what you wish to see, by clicking the filter icon.

Fiscal Year	Department	Agency	Operating Division	Operating Unit	Program Activity Project	Object of Expenditure	Expense Class	Amount

NOTE: This data was extracted from the General Appropriations Act (GAA) spreadsheet file published by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM). No processing was performed other than renaming the columns for clarity.

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