NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT AND ACTION PLAN The organisation of the ICT-areas curricula should enable their easy and dynamical adjustment, by following the dynamics of recent events in the ICT-domain as a whole. It is necessary to define legal conditions which are to be implemented through engaging ICTexperts in the educational system, as well as to prepare the teaching staff for ICT-education within the system (primary, secondary, obligatory, optional). The introduction of ICT-education in the primary school and increasing the number of subject courses in all high schools (irrespective of their basic occupation) represent steps to be undertaken within those entities dealing with formal education. Coordination and development of education in the high-education institutions dealing with ICT-areas. Profiling the future ICT-experts is of key importance for the overall development of the information society. It is necessary to introduce distinction of applicative and research education for ICT-experts. It is necessary to encourage educational profiles of ICT-experts at more levels (graduate, post-graduate, certified) and to harmonise the expertise by areas. For the purposes of successful realisation of these measures it is necessary to redefine the status of the existing educational institutions that profile ICT-staff, and to transform them into independent faculties. The introduction of obligatory ICT-education in all universities in the Republic of Macedonia with adjusted curricula for ICT-literacy is also important. Integration of flexible forms of learning and forms for lifelong learning by using ICT in the existing system and encouraging their use. To stimulate the use and development of distance learning systems, lifelong learning and flexible forms of learning by using ICT in all segments of the education process. To adjust or to create a legal framework for their implementation and accreditation. To provide conditions for encouraging the activities of the centres for flexible forms of learning by using ICT, distance learning and obtaining ICT-domain knowledge. In the field related to ICT-literacy and contents development, we should strive towards the following: Enabling the ICT-literacy building as part of the civil education. One of the supplementary measures regarding the activities for higher citizen participation level in the overall social processes through improved ICT use relates to the increasing of their capacity for simple and efficient use of e-services. To encourage the activities for increasing the ICT-literacy through promoting and support with courses, materials and flexible forms of science, as well as forms of lifelong learning. Special attention shall be paid to the accessibility of these activities to persons with special needs for their facilitated integration in the society with and through ICT use. Providing a continuous digital literacy for all professions by making adjustments towards specific professional needs. The information society development, as well as the knowledge based society development implies educated people. Due to the substantial information technology development within the past couple of years, there is a great part of the population that hardly ever has contacts with that technology. Prejudice and ignorance represent the basic constraints for the creation of the informationcommunication technology. A project, such as this one, would be with an objective to increase the information technology use in the daily operations, by educating all population structures. Certified institutions should introduce free of charge courses for those not involved in the formal education, which would provide them with an opportunity of gaining the basic knowledge necessary for the information technology use. NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT AND ACTION PLAN 41