Atty. Jocelle Batapa-Sigue is Co-Founder and Past President, and currently the Vice President of the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP). In 2012, she pioneered the clustering of NICP and served as lead convenor of the Visayas ICT Cluster Organization (VICTOR). She was chosen as Asia Society Top Ten Philippines 21 Fellow in 2009 and Eisenhower Fellow of the Philippines for 2012. Last March 2014, she was named as Philippine Individual Contributor of the Year during the International ICT Awards given by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in the Philippines. She served as city councilor of Bacolod for 9 years and founded the Bacolod-Negros Occidental Federation for Information and Communications Technology (BNEFIT) in 2008 . She chaired the NICP eGov Awards or the Awards for Excellence in ICT for Good Governance. She developed the Negros First CyberCentre and the first Technology Business Incubator (TBI) for tech startups in the province. In 2016, she founded the Philippine ICT Innovation Network which seeks to create platforms for all ICT champions to collaborate on seeking solutions and strategies for the Philippines to thrive in the digital age. Her passion is to help build ICT councils in the countryside as a venue for academe, government and industry to come together and develop strategies to generate ICT-enabled jobs and investments and drive innovation. In 2016, she was named as one of The Outstanding Women in Nation Service (TOWNS) awardee in the field of ICT.