NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT AND ACTION PLAN 1 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT ....It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong... Leif Edvinsson The key challenge in the Strategy building process is defining the economic, social and political vision of the knowledge based society, through ICT development and application in all spheres of life, thereby creating modern and efficient services for the citizens and the business community. In order to achieve the vision and mission as defined in the NISP, the following strategic objectives are envisaged to be achieved by 2007: • • • • Entirely liberalised market for electronic-communication services (2005); Significantly increased number of Internet users; Established electronic public services; Implemented priorities for the purposes of sustainability of the Information Society Development Strategy and Action Plan; • Revision of the Strategy in 2007 according to the EU recommendations of the Action Plan i-2010. The basic pre-requisite is creation of a modern, easily accessible and acceptable ICTinfrastructure, available under equal and nondiscriminatory conditions through acceptable rates for Internet access and access to other electronic communication services that will enable communication between the business entities, citizens, public administration and non-Governmental sector through precisely defined protocols. The strategy should provide a better economic development through securing improved economic efficiency, competitiveness and profitability via reorganised and improved business processes with appropriate models for e-business implementation in companies. The e-Government concept stems from the e-Europe framework, which means that the Government should be the first one to initiate the entire process in order to demonstrate determination for implementation of the underlined concept. Efficient and transparent Government, open for cooperation with citizens - that is the concept that will provide better electronic services for the citizens and the business community, a concept that will encourage economic and social prosperity. The process of creating a modern and flexible educational and research system, as well as of encouraging the ICT orientation in the education, science and culture is the most expensive and longterm process that shall increase the percentage of ICT literacy of citizens, simultaneously providing a continuous development of the National Academic Research Network as responsible authority of modern and efficient functioning of entities in the filed of education at national and global level. NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT AND ACTION PLAN 11