CURRENT CONDITIONS The Cross-cutting Strategy for the Information Society 2008-2013, adopted through Decision No. 59 of the Council of Ministers, dated 21.01.2009, set out the main development directions and objectives in the field of information society during this period of time. This document replaced the first document of the ICT strategy adopted in 2003, whilst it also ammended the main objectives for the ICT as specified in the document for the National Strategy for Development and Integration 2007-2013. The Cross-cutting Strategy for the Information Society (ISSIS) was built in five main components. This was based on the ICT conditions and information society development in 2008, where a very low scale of internet, PC in the family and fixed telephony were identified, with the scale of mobile telephony at the level of 70%, a few developments of the electronic services mainly related to business, and an incomplete institutional and legal framework for the information society. These components are as follows: ►► Development of legal and institutional framework; ►► Development of ICT infrastructure and the facilitation of cheap and fast internet; ►► Development of e-governance; ►► Education related to ICT knowledge; ►► Promotion of e-business. ISSIS was also accompanied by an action plan which was reviwed in 2011. The action plan for the period 2011-2013 included activities related to the development of ICT, e-governance and the information society in general. Part of the activities of this plan were fulfilled, whilst the rest of them are still ongoing. A number of activities have to be readdressed and focused toward the fruition of the government programme for the consolidated development of the ICT infrastructure, increase of electronic services as well as the increase of utilization of these services by the citizens, business as well as the public administration itself. Development of the legal and institutional framework During the period of 2008-2013, a series of laws were drafted and adopted in compliance with the European Union standards. The efforts of the Albanian institutions during this period were focused into the development of the necessary legal and institutional framework in order to secure an efficient environment for communicating with the business, establishment and maintanance of the advanced electronic communication for the needs of the public administration and electronic governance, legal ammendmends for the management of the spectrum on the 11