PRESIDENT Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has issued an ad interim appointment to Ivan John Uy as secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT).

Uy was among the Cabinet secretaries who had been bypassed because the Commission on Appointments did not act on their appointments before Congress adjourned last week.

Uy, an information technology law expert, was appointed by the President as DICT chief in May.

Prior to his role in the Marcos administration, Uy served as the chair of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology under the administration of former president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino 3rd.

Uy also was the chief information officer at the Supreme Court during the term of then-chief justice Hilario Davide Jr.

He joined the Supreme Court as a legal researcher before moving up to the head of the Court’s management information system office.

The DICT was last headed by former senator Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan 2nd, who stepped down from the post after announcing his plan to return to the Senate.