The Philippines adopts the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) definition of information and communications technology (ICT) which refers to a combination of manufacturing and service industries that electronically captures, transmits, and displays data and information. ICT is commonly used as a collective term to describe the new generation of information technology spawned by the Internet. ICT broadly includes the following: telecommunications industry, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), e-commerce models, hardware and software application for communications technology, business process outsourcing—e.g. contact center operations, and multi-media applications.>>read complete document
