1 (9) ,evaluate eligible activities to ascertain and promote effective 2 telecommuqications and information technology development practices and 3 usages among ICClP; or , , 4 (10) provide research, analysis, data collection, data organization, and 5 dissemination of information relevant to telecommunications and infonnation 6 technology to ICC/IP for the purpose of promoting effective telecommunications 7 and information technology development practices and usages among them. 8 (F) "Eligibl~ Entity" - refers to an organization of indigenous peoples, indigenous 9 cultural communities, private or public institution of higher education acting under an ! i i I 10 , , agreement with th~ ICC/IP. i 11 (G) "Indigenous Cultural Communities/ Indigenous Peoples (ICCIP)" - as defined 12 in the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997, refers to a group ofpeopJe or homogenous 13 societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously 14 lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who 15 have, under claims of ownership since time immemorial, occupied, possessed customs, 16 tradition and other distinctive cultural traits, or who have, through resistance to political, 17 social and cultural inroads of colonization, non-indigenous religions and culture, became 18 historically differentiated from the majority of Filipinos. ICCs/IPs shall likewise include 19 peoples who are regarded as indigenous on account of their descent from the populations 20 which inhabited the country at the time of conquest or colonization, or at the time of 21 inroads of non-indigenous religions and cultures, or the establishment of present state 22 boundaries, who retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural and political 23 institutions, but who may have been displaced from their traditional domains or who may 24 have resettled outside their ancestral domains. 25 (H) "Information Technology" - refers to any equipment or interconnected system 26 or subsystem of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, analysis, 4