Rodolfo "Rudy" Agapay Salalima is a Filipino lawyer who was the first secretary of the Philippine Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) under the Duterte administration. Salalima is the former chief legal counsel and senior advisor of

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, one of the leading telecommunications firms in the country and has also served as Senior Vice President for Corporate and Regulatory Affairs and Managing Director of

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. He is also the former president of the Philippine Chamber of Telecommunications Operators (PCTO) and International Telecommunication Union Council working group for the amendment of ITU constitution and convention vice chairman for

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Region. In 2015, Salalima authored the book entitled "Telecommunications in the Information Revolution", a law book on telecommunication policies in the country.

Background

Salalima is a Bicolano from

Polangui, Albay Polangui, officially the Municipality of Polangui ( bcl, Banwaan kan Polangui; tl, Bayan ng Polangui), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Albay, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of people. Etymology ...

. He was Duterte's former classmate in

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Class of 1971, together with former Justice secretary

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, and Transportation secretary Arthur Tugade. He passed the

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in 1974.

Department of Information and Communications Technology

Salalima was appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte, became the first secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology. He resigned from the post on September 22, 2017. He cited corruption and interference as his reasons for resigning. Salalima was succeeded by DICT Undersecretary Eliseo Rio Jr. as an Officer-in-charge (OIC) of DICT.

External links

Salalima's profile at Bloomberg

References

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