PROFILE
Biography
Atty. Jocelle Batapa-Sigue is a lawyer, law professor and technology advocate from Bacolod City who served as Undersecretary for ICT Industry Development at the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) from 2022 to 2025. A three-term Bacolod City councilor, she co-founded the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP), served as its president from 2010 to 2012, and helped shape national ICT legislation, including the law creating the DICT. She also champions women in technology and anti-trafficking work. Her honors include being named an Asia Society Philippines 21 Young Leader (2009), Eisenhower Fellow (2012) and TOWNS awardee for ICT (2016).