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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
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E.g., Universal Access Policy, Cybersecurity Policy etc.
National Information and Communication Technology Policy