B.2. Responsibility and ownership ICTA is responsible for the formulation, maintenance and updating of the policies and procedures. Individual government organizations are responsible for adopting and implementation of the policies and procedures. ICTA is responsible for monitoring the implementation of the policies and procedures. B.3. Scope These policies and procedures should be followed by all government organizations; Ministries, government Departments, Provincial Councils, District Secretariats, and Divisional Secretariats and Local Authorities, government Corporations, Statutory Bodies, and Companies fully owned by government. This document should be adopted by each government organization and customized if necessary. B.4. Process The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka set up an ICT Policy Committee in November 2004 to formulate the first draft of policies and procedures for use of ICT in government. After an internal review, the initial draft was presented in February 2005 to a representative gathering of stakeholders mainly comprising members of the ICTA Focus Groups and Working Groups. There was an extensive discussion on the policy and the views of the participants were taken into account and the policy was further modified. This document was later presented to approximately 150 Chief Innovation Officers (CIOs) of the Western Province on 2005-03-10 and to a group of CIOs and Re-engineering Government Focus Group members on 2008-07-22. The document was made available to the Public, on www.icta.lk in order to ascertain the views of a wider audience. ICTA published advertisements in the newspapers inviting the views of the public and interested parties on the draft document. The views received as a consequence was considered by ICTA before finalizing and deploying this document. Comments were received from several government organizations, private organizations, citizens, associations, health personnel, etc. All comments were reviewed and discussed and the draft of this document was amended incorporating relevant recommendations. (C) Enabling Legal Environment The issue of formulating and incorporating into the country’s legal system suitable measures relating to ICT, so as to promote the development of ICT, and to create a facilitating legal environment is presently being addressed by ICTA. In this regard, ICTA is carrying forward the work originally undertaken by CINTEC, consequent to specific mandates given to ICTA by the Cabinet of Ministers. 3