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

Ayala Corporation Ayala Corporation (, formerly ''Ayala y Compañía''; ) is the publicly listed holding company for the diversified interests of the Ayala Group. Founded in the Philippines by Domingo Róxas and Antonio de Ayala during Spanish colonial rule, ...

. 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. He was Duterte's former classmate in

San Beda College of Law San Beda College of Law is the law school of San Beda University, a private, Roman Catholic university run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines.Directory of Higher Education Institutions, Commission on Higher Education, 2006-2007. The mai ...

Class of 1971, together with fellow Duterte Cabinet members Vitaliano Aguirre II and

Arthur Tugade Arthur "Art" Planta Tugade (born January 9, 1946) is a Filipino people, Filipino businessman and lawyer from Cagayan who served as the Secretary of Transportation (Philippines), Secretary of the Department of Transportation (Philippines), Depar ...

. He passed the

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in 1974.

Department of Information and Communications Technology

Salalima was appointed by President

Rodrigo Duterte Rodrigo Roa Duterte (, ; born March 28, 1945) is a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022. He is the first Philippine president from Mindanao, and is the oldest person to assum ...

, became the first secretary of the

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. 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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