Digitisation Project
This Project aims to accelerate the digitisation of appropriate government information such as
national archives and public libraries. This project would ensure that content relevant to the
people of St. Lucia is made available to them electronically, which assists with information
sharing. It also provides a relatively limitless capacity for storage, thereby preserving local
content and culture in a medium that is easily transferrable and which has the capacity for
backing up information for disaster recovery.
Information and Records Management Project
This Project seeks to ensure that the functions, processes and activities of Government are
properly supported by authentic, secure, reliable, complete and usable records. As such, it will
include an assessment of the current state of information and records across all of
Government, and the development of an enabling Information and Records Management
Policy. The Project will support the timely and successful implementation of this important
policy. It will therefore include the implementation of key ISO Standards, including Data and
Information Management: ISO 15489 ‐ Information & Documentation: Records Management;
Information Security Management ‐ ISO Standard 17799: Information Security Management,
ISO Standard 18028: IT Network Security, and ISO Standard 18044: Information Security
Incident Management
E‐Government Interoperability Framework Project
The provision of support for the interconnectivity of heterogeneous and dissimilar Information
Systems and Services is the output of this Project. This support is integral to the
implementation of horizontal citizen‐centric and business‐centric services across ministries and
agencies. As such, it includes the development and implementation of policies and standards to
improve the exchange and use of information between systems and across services to support
e‐Government. The Interoperability Framework Project will include the development of the
following policies and standards: Interconnection Policies and Standards, Data Integration
Standard, Metadata Standard, Information Access and Presentation Standards, Web Standard,
Web Content Standard, Security Policies and Standards, and Computer Use Policy.
Legislation and Policy Framework
An enabling environment provides the foundation for the success of ICT initiatives. Appropriate
legislation needs to be established and the policy frameworks should exist to support the use of
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