Jocelle Batapa-Sigue

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The Honorable
Jocelle Batapa-Sigue
Undersecretary for Informations and Communications Technology Industry Development
Assumed office
August 4, 2022
Website jocellebatapasigue.com

Jocelle Batapa-Sigue (born December 14, 1972) is a Filipino politician, [1] currently serving as Undersecretary for Informations and Communications Technology Industry Development of the Department of Information and Communications Technology. [2] [3] She previously served as a member of the Bacolod City Council. She is the founding chairperson of the Bacolod – Negros Occidental Federation for Information and Communications Technology, [4] [5] one of the founding organization of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines where she became president from 2010-2012.

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Political career

Member of the Bacolod City Council

Batapa-Sigue first ran for office as a member of the Bacolod City Council in 2001 but lost the race. However, in the 2004 local elections, she was finally elected into the city council where she headed the nascent committee that eventually became the committee on information and communications technology, where she facilitated the start of the ICT-BPO industry in Bacolod. [6] She led the Bacolod City Gender and Development Council, extending her women empowerment and protection advocacy in public service. [7]

She was recognized in 2016 as one of The Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service (TOWNS), alongside then Olympic silver medalist Hidilyn Diaz, for her work in growing the ICT industry not just in Bacolod, but also the other parts of the Philippines. [8]

Candidacies for Representative and Mayor

In 2010, despite being qualified for another term as member of the city council, Batapa-Sigue filed her candidacy as an independent candidate for representative of the Lone District of Bacolod where she lost to businessman and physician Anthony Golez, Jr. Meanwhile, in 2019, she came out as a surprise candidate for Mayor of Bacolod under the MKK coalition slate, led by former Rep. Monico Puentevella, with former Vice Mayor Thaddy Sayson as runningmate. She lost to then incumbent mayor Bing Leonardia. [9]

Other involvements

Before entering public service, she worked as a local reporter and news writer for the Bacolod stations of GMA Network in 1990 and then ABS-CBN Regional, while she studied law as one of the pioneer law students of the University of St. La Salle, passing the bar in the 1997 bar examination and inducted to the Roll of Attorneys in May 7, 1998. [10]

Batapa-Sigue worked as gender rights advocate, former in-house counsel of the Victorias Milling Company, and professor at the University of St. La Salle College of Law since 1998. She was granted fellowship in two international leadership institutions, the Hawaii-based Haggai Institute for Advanced Leadership and the Einsenhower Fellowships. [11] [12] Upon retirement from elected office in 2016, she became the chief consultant for ICT development programs by the late Gov. Alfredo Marañon, Jr.

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, in May 2020, Batapa-Sigue initiated the barter movement [13] as a way to acquire scarce resource and food products as people found themselves without jobs and salaries. [14] [15]

Prior to her appointment to the Department of Information and Communications Technology, she was Consultant for Digital Transformation in the office of Sen. Sonny Angara.

Awards and citations

From 2002 to present, Batapa-Sigue has been given awards for services in public service and private advocacies. Prominent local and international awards include the ff.:

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