3 4 plan shall be approved and updated by the National ICT Development Committee. The implementation plan for the initial consolidated list of strategies shall be approved within 3 months from the adoption of this Policy. The Government envisages that this plan will cover a 5 year period; Issue- and sector-specific policies and/or strategies, which will address specific aspects of the implementation of this Policy62 in detail. These policies, to the extent they fall within the scope of this Policy, shall be endorsed by the National ICT Development Committee and, where required by specific laws, approved by the Council of Ministers; Corporate and business plans as well as expenditure frameworks and budgets of sector Ministries and Government Departments, as well as similar plans and budgets of Constitutional and Statutory Entities and other stakeholders. To the extent public funding is required to implement this Policy, such funding will be provided from: 1 Funds of respective stakeholders, including regular budgets of respective Ministries, Government Departments, as well as Constitutional and Statutory Entities; 2 ICT Development Fund, which will primarily be used to provide seed funding for initiatives covered by this Policy, including piloting and testing policy approaches and establishing demonstration models, which could subsequently be integrated into generic programmes of sector Ministries and Government Departments. This fund may be managed as per the framework applicable to the Universal Access Policy Fund, without restrictions for using such funds set out in sections 17(1), 18(1) and 19(3) of the Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulation Act No. 30 of 2009; 3 Universal Access Policy Fund, set up and administered under section 19 of the Telecommunications and Radiocommunications Regulation Act No. 30 of 2009. Support of development partners as well as international and regional organisations will be sought to fund the implementation of this Policy. Furthermore, in accordance with the principles of multi-stakeholder collaboration, the Government will seek to partner with local, regional and international public, private, non-profit and volunteer organisations, including multinational corporations as well as international and regional civil society organisations (such as the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society), in implementing this Policy. The Government will enable and facilitate such partnerships, including by accepting and encouraging contributions, including targeted ones, to the ICT Development Fund and Universal Access Policy Fund. Where various organisations seek to design and/or implement their own programmes, projects or initiatives falling within the scope of this Policy, the Government will encourage and facilitate coordination of such design and implementation with activities under this Policy, as well as promote application 62 56 E.g., Universal Access Policy, Cybersecurity Policy etc. National Information and Communication Technology Policy

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