1 (G) "Indigenous Cultural Communities/ Indigenous Peoples (ICCIP)" - as defined in the 2 Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997, refers to a group of people or homogenous societies 3 identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized 4 community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of 5 ownership since time immemorial, occupied, possessed customs, tradition and other distinctive 6 cultural traits, or who have, through resistance to' political, social and' cultural inroads of 7 colonization, non-indigenous religions and culture, became historically differentiated from the 8 majority of Filipinos. ICCs/lPs shall likewise include peoples who are regarded as indigenous 9 on account of their descent from the populations which inhabited the country at the time of 10 conquest or colonization, or at the time of inroads of non-indigenous religions and cultures, or 11 the establishment of present state boundaries, who retain some or all of their own social, 12 economic, cultural and political institutions, but who may have been displaced from their 13 traditional domains or who may have resettled outside their ancestral domains. 14 (H) "Information Technology" - refers to any equipment or interconnected system or 15 subsystem of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, analysis, evaluatibn, 16 manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or 17 reception of data or information. It includes computers, ancillary equipment (including imaging 18 peripherals, input, output, and storage devices necessary for security and surveillance), 19 peripheral equipment designed to be controlled by the central processing unit of a computer, 20 software, finnware and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related 21 resources. 22 23 (I) "NCC" - refers to the National Computer Center under the Department of Science and Technology. 24 (J) "NTC" - refers to the National Telecommunications Commission. 25 (K) "Technical Assistance" - refers to the facilitation of skills and knowledge 26 27 28 III plmming, developing, assessing, and administering eligible activities. (L) "Training and Technical Assistance Grant" - refers to a grant provided under Section7. 4