CURRENT USAGE BY NON-ICT SECTORS G JUDICIARY overnment is utilising justice software, JEMS – Judicial Enforcement Management System, to facilitate the administration of the Courts. This application software supports all types of court cases, payments, warrants, sentencing, docket scheduling, and forms/reports generation. The various registries (Civil Registry, Electoral Registry, and Commerce and Intellectual Property Registry (CIPO)) have been computerized, but needs to be integrated. 2.1 Action Item: Launch NAPMIS Train Farmers and Extension Staff in the use of Information Systems and ICT in Agriculture Action Item: Make solid advancements in 10 major recommendations to raise the competitiveness of SVG and introduce the mechanisms to effectively report theses advancements Action Item: Create and Launch a well designed Web-2.0 Government Portal which allow sector stakeholder participation and centralised standards Draft Policy 26th June 2009 2.2 FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION Standard Integrated Tax Administration System (SIGTAX) is used to manage tax collection, while Automatic System for Customs Data (ASYCUDA) World supports Customs. SMARTSTREAM is utilised by the finance departments of Government. 2.3 AGRICULTURE Work is in train on the development of a national agriculture production and marketing information system to provide market information and intelligence to the agricultural sector. 2.4 HEALTH SVG has about 97 Medical Doctors, 298 Registered Nurses, 13 Dentists and about 47 Pharmacists, with a 2009 Health Budget of about EC$ 71,607,805. The country is home to a School of Nursing and to an Off-shore Medical College. A draft national strategic plan exists for health for the period 2007–2012. The stated goal of the sector is to improve the health status of the people through enhancing and expanding public health services, expansion of secondary services, improving the quality of and access to the services, and improving the decision making capacity of the sector. The current challenges in the health sector include chronic non-communicable diseases, insufficient funding, the ineffective management of inventory, the excessive need of overseas referrals, insufficient statistical information on the appropriate utilisation of services and Current Usage by Non-ICT Sectors P a g e | 39