2.3 CORE POLICY OBJECTIVES AND CORRESPONDING POLICY STATEMENTS What follows are the 7 Strategic Themes on which the Core Policy Objectives and Corresponding Policy Statements of the e-Government Policy are based. 1. Public Sector Infrastructure Development: Building out a world-class Government Wide-Area Network (GWAN) for the Belize public sector using common and shared platforms that enable delivery of robust, seamless, userfriendly, end-to-end ICT services internally and to external clients. 2. Creative Regulatory Reform: Designing and implementing pioneering policy and regulatory approaches to ICT adoption and usage in the public service that allow e-Government to flourish in a secure environment. 3. Targeted Human Capacity Development: Shaping public sector frameworks for training, education and career-long learning that bridge significant existing deficiencies in individual and overall human capacity. 4. Improved Government Efficiency: Enhancing public sector responsiveness and the diffusion and use of ICT by upgrading existing delivery channels, creating new channels for delivery, designing compelling new content and services, changing the culture of bureaucracy and developing appropriate governance models. 5. Effective Cross-Functional Collaboration: Developing programmes and initiatives to build capacity for e-Government-related research and innovation, dissolve existing unproductive silos, improve collaboration, increase knowledge exchange, and support the sharing of experiences across Government. 6. Enhanced National Security: Applying ICT frameworks uniformly across all national security-related public service entities in ways that remove existing silos, promote close collaboration, encourage active exchange of information, and contribute to a national sense that law and order is being appropriately maintained. 7. Quality Social Services: Transforming the way Government engages with key clients and stakeholders such that they are placed at the centre of national development through the efficient sharing of information and the fast, seamless, secure, cost-effective delivery of Government services via modern ICT platforms. 11