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Information Technology Law and Policy in the Philippines

The author of this site, Gilbert E. Lumantao, is a Certified Public Accountant who used to work as researcher for the Institute of International Legal Studies of the University of the Philippines Law Center, particularly, in the Information Technology Law Program of the Institute. He now works as an employee of a national government agency. He used to be the editor of the e-Legal and two of his works have been published by the Philippine Star's Network Section. There is a UP write-up on a seminar he organized and lecture made on Free/Open Source software. He was involved in efforts to create an organization representative of Internet users at-large but has recently resigned. He now maintains several blogs, namely, Pinoy Seminars, Quick & Random, Kontrakablag, and Bol-anon, and is the moderator of the Yahoo Group ITLAWPHIL .
Contents

To understand the issues, a definition of terms is provided in the introduction.  It is based on the definitions provided by Electronic Commerce Act (ECA) and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR), whose features I tried to explain, as well as the Rules on Electronic Evidence (REE) adopted by the Supreme Court, which I also discussed.  These documents (the ECA, its IRR and the REE) form the core of what can be described as IT law and policy in the Philippines.

In relation to this, there are intellectual property issues related to IT and foremost of which is the issue on the ECA’s anti-piracy provision (Section 33b).  Another is the issue on free software and/or open source.  This very creative response to intellectual property is the handiwork of truly revolutionary people like Richard Stallman whom I got to interview by email.  Following their example, the University of the Philippines (UP) is now shifting to Bayanihan Linux and OpenOffice.

Recently, the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) isued the final guidelines on the administration of DotPH. To provide some background on the matter, you may wish to read the articles I have written on the PH country-code top level domain (ccTLD), on the issue of regulation, and the comments I sent to the ITECC and the NTC Advisory Board before the release of the final guidelines.

I also wrote on other IT law and policy matters like the ICANN meetings which I got to attend, e-mail order brides, IT and transparency in government, the best evidence rule in the REE and librarianship. I am still trying to come up with articles on privacy and consumer rights, wireless data networks, voice-over-ip (VOIP), and the digital divide.

To understand the issues, a definition of terms is provided in the introduction.  It is based on the definitions provided by Electronic Commerce Act (ECA) and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR), whose features I tried to explain, as well as the Rules on Electronic Evidence (REE) adopted by the Supreme Court, which I also discussed.  These documents (the ECA, its IRR and the REE) form the core of what can be described as IT law and policy in the Philippines.

To understand the issues, a definition of terms is provided in the introduction.  It is based on the definitions provided by Electronic Commerce Act (ECA) and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR), whose features I tried to explain, as well as the Rules on Electronic Evidence (REE) adopted by the Supreme Court, which I also discussed.  These documents (the ECA, its IRR and the REE) form the core of what can be described as IT law and policy in the Philippines.

In relation to this, there are intellectual property issues related to IT and foremost of which is the issue on the ECA’s anti-piracy provision (Section 33b).  Another is the issue on free software and/or open source.  This very creative response to intellectual property is the handiwork of truly revolutionary people like Richard Stallman whom I got to interview by email.  Following their example, the University of the Philippines (UP) is now shifting to Bayanihan Linux and OpenOffice.

Recently, the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) isued the final guidelines on the administration of DotPH. To provide some background on the matter, you may wish to read the articles I have written on the PH country-code top level domain (ccTLD), on the issue of regulation, and the comments I sent to the ITECC and the NTC Advisory Board before the release of the final guidelines.

I also wrote on other IT law and policy matters like the ICANN meetings which I got to attend, e-mail order brides, IT and transparency in government, the best evidence rule in the REE and librarianship. I am still trying to come up with articles on privacy and consumer rights, wireless data networks, voice-over-ip (VOIP), and the digital divide.

 Check out Batasayti, my new blog on information technology law and policy in the Philippines and in other Asian countries. Visit also my other blogs, namely, Pinoy Seminars, Quick & Random, Kontrakablag and Bol-anon. See you there.

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