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new avenues for criminal, including fraudulent, activities; new threats for
protection of confidential information and important infrastructure; as
well as new risks of disruption of social and economic life; and ensuring
that those dangers are properly addressed and managed, in particular
through appropriate preparedness, education and awareness building.
Individual privacy should be maintained throughout.
Locally Relevant Content: Increasing availability of locally relevant
sustainably supported content, especially by making global content
accessible in local languages.
Capacity Building: Enhancing skills necessary to utilize and develop
ICTs, especially in the public service.
Platform for Multi-Stakeholder and Multi-Sector Coordination and
Collaboration: Recognizing that any pre-established policy cannot
foresee every initiative that could benefit the development of the ICT
sector, neither any one central agency can envisage and direct all of
them; and therefore setting up a platform for expertise, knowledge and
skills to be shared among various stakeholders and sectors, duplications
to be eliminated and potential synergies exploited, thereby enabling a
substantially self-organizing (although enabled and coordinated) ICT
development process.
Annex B sets out anticipated results (in terms of outcomes and impacts) that the
Government expects to achieve by addressing the Priorities above.
General Considerations
The Government acknowledges that the Priorities above do not include immediate and ambitious agenda in certain important areas, including health and productive sectors as well as disaster management. The Government considers, however,
that the effective utilisation of ICTs in such areas requires strengthening of the
preparedness of respective institutions first, and applying an appropriate process
of strategic planning. This is needed to ensure that the promotion of ICTs does
not become a standalone isolated activity, but that it meaningfully contributes to
the operation and development of the respective sectors. This will be achieved by
implementing strategies under Priorities 4 and 7.
Importantly, implementation of strategies under the Priorities above, in
particular Priorities 1, 2, 3 and 5, will prepare the ground and provide a platform
for initiatives in other areas. Implementation of Priority 8 will facilitate utilisation
of ICTs across all areas important for socio-economic development, by enabling
cross-pollination of experiences and more effective cross-utilization of resources
and platforms.
Priorities
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