NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT AND ACTION PLAN 40 Increasing and standardisation of the hardware and software equipment within the stated entities and provision of interoperability… As a qualitative measure for the achieved results, we should strive towards the following: providing a fast and cost-effective Internet-access for all legal and natural entities participating in the educational process. Special emphasis is to be made on the need for meeting the standards and the positive practice for Internet-accessibility in the education. To find and propose forms for free Internet access in the education as institutional benefit and as centres for web-culture and literacy dissemination. Special emphasis is on MARNET on the academic and research level. Improving the operations of the research and innovation centres and the technology transfer centres. Sublimating the actual situation, expertise and scientific-research and application capacities of the research centres in the ICT domain. Promoting the priorities and coordination of directions for development of research centres and encouraging the development in the priority defined areas. Encouraging the technology transfer centres with specific assistance, through establishment of incubator-enterprises within the high-education institutions. Implementation of up to date information systems for the educational environment at all levels and providing their interoperability… Creating and implementing information management systems and defining standards on interoperability and electronic connection of the administration between the institutions of the educational system on the appropriate levels (primary, high school, university). Defining the administrative tasks from and to the local and central Government centres, as well as the specialised institutions (State Statistical Office). Integrating the existing networks of the local libraries, museums and cultural institutions, as well as the networks of the National Technology Development Centres Associations ("Narodna tehnika") and NGO of Macedonia for ICT-education - free Internet access through public e-points and establishment of clubs for contents development To encourage establishment of centres with ICT-infrastructure as responsible authorities of the activities for implementation of the Strategy objectives in the part for ICT-literacy and contents development within the existing network of institutions in the following three areas (libraries, cultural museums and institutions and organisational units of the National Technology Development Centres Associations ("Narodna tehnika")). In the field of ICT in the education system, we should strive towards the following: Increasing the ICT presence in the primary schools and high schools. It is necessary to introduce IT at early stages in the primary school and to define the quantitative and qualitative ICT presence in the educational system of the primary and high school education. Priority revision of the curricula in the field of ICT-education in primary and high school education. The curricula for the IT in the primary and high school education have to be coordinated with the general objectives of the Strategy, and have to be compatible with the international norms and recommendations. It is necessary to define new subjects and programmes, as well as to introduce structural and contents' changes in the existing ones. NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT AND ACTION PLAN