• Stimulate investment and growth in the ICT sector through the creation of a favourable fiscal and investment climate for the development of a globally competitive ICT-enabled economy. • Create an enabling environment that empowers stakeholders in trade and commerce with the underlying infrastructure to improve productivity and positively position the nation for global competition and business. • Promote public private partnership (PPP) to accelerate the development and implementation of policies as well as the necessary legal and technical standards to support widespread implementation of electronic commerce. • Facilitate the establishment of Free-Zone ICT Parks and incubator facilities that will be equipped with the necessary infrastructure to promote and support ICT-related business. • Establish a National ICT Development Fund, which amongst its other activities, will provide venture capital finance to start -up ICT-related small and medium enterprises (SMEs) • Work with both the domestic and foreign private sector as an effective development partner • Equip technology development institutions and private sector establishments with modern technology tools to enable them produce useful capital equipment and machinery • Create a diversified, innovative and fully integrated industrial sector with active participation of the private sector • Reduce the economic and non-economic cost of doing business to enable the private sector to flourish The Key Implementation Agencies, Players and Stakeholders • • • • • Ministry of Private Sector Development Ministry of Trade and Industry Ministry of Economic Planning and Finance The Private Enterprise Foundation Private Sector Businesses and Establishments 46