2. The National ICT Vision and Objectives For many years, there has been a global recognition that ICT can enable a country’s economic prosperity through its capacity to improve the management and efficiency of all spheres of the lives of individuals and businesses. This is particularly true for small island states and emerging economies as ICT can significantly reduce the impact of time and location, and enable a small island country to have a global reach. In this context, the vision of the Government of St. Lucia for ICT has been captured in the following statement: “Improve the quality of life in Saint Lucia by embracing ICT to promote development, innovation and global competitiveness thereby enabling sustainable social and economic growth.” In achieving this vision, Government strongly believes that the following core values must be maintained, supported and enabled, namely: • Community • Integrity • Innovation The delivery of the national ICT agenda must therefore support the building and strengthening of the communities that exist throughout the country; it must facilitate the integrity of all that government does; and finally, it must release and enable the innovation that is inherent in the people of St. Lucia. At a broad conceptual level, Government defined the outcomes that it expects the national ICT strategy to achieve. It requires that the overall governance of the public service become more effective and that service delivery to citizens and businesses be extensively facilitated using electronic delivery channels. It expects that ICT would enable significant economic growth through the creation of new ICT‐related job opportunities that citizens would reach out to fill. It is believed that with the innovative use of ICT within the health care delivery system that the health and well‐being of the citizens of St. Lucia would improve. This in itself would have significant spill‐over benefits to the country as healthy citizens cost less to the state and can contribute more to their families, the community, and the economy. It is also expected that ICT would improve national security and the administration of justice in the country through careful collection, sharing and mining of information. Finally, it was required that investments [9]