Country Readiness Assessment Report – Kyrgyzstan • • • health; construction of a new model for the internal information-communication infrastructure of the republic, supporting both traditional technologies and the technologies of the new generation; to achieve 100% coverage of the country’s territory by radio and television broadcasting on the bases of new technologies; to triple density of telephone numbers in the countryside. 1.1.4.3 Ensuring security of information Objective: to ensure information security is protecting national interests in the area of information, as defined by an aggregate of the balanced interests of citizens, society and the state. Main directions: • defense of information resources and information systems from unapproved access, and ensuring security for information and telecommunication systems; • observance of the rights and freedom of the public to access and use information, ensuring the spiritual rehabilitation of the people, the maintenance and strengthening of society’s moral values, of its traditions of patriotism and humanism, and of the country’s cultural and scientific capacity; • Ensuring a supply of information compatible with the state’s policy of offering its own citizens and the international community honest information regarding government policy, and the official position of the state on socially significant events in domestic and international life. Ensuring citizens have access to open state information resources. 1.1.4.4 ICT and civil society development. Building partnership with different sectors Objective: to promote the solution of social problems; to strengthen the democratisation process in the country; to use modern information technologies for a timely and independent coverage of events; and to increase the role of NGOs. Main directions: • • • • effective ICT use in bridging partnership relations between different sectors of the country and of society engaged in different activities; implementing social programs and establishing an information society; ICT application in the improvement of citizens’ education and the protection of interests of different groups of population; attraction of social attention to key events in social, economic and political life of the country; involvement of NGOs in activities supporting the poorer layers of the population; development of the information resources network for NGOs and population. 11