Country Readiness Assessment Report – Kyrgyzstan ICT. 1.1.5.2 Measures of National Strategy implementation Organisational measures support the following directions: • active propaganda of the National Strategy; • coordination of works on informatisation of public administration bodies, various programmes and projects on ICT development; • introduction of mechanism for the competitive selection of the targeted programmes and projects on informatisation development, and their implementation on the basis of independent expertise; • tax-financial stimulation, and control over utilisation of funds; • regular monitoring and evaluation of the status of the National Strategy implementation. The Council for Information–Communication Technologies, under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, (ICT Council) carries out the overall coordination of planned activities. The ICT Council reviews materials on the Strategy’s implementation, checks the execution of programmes and projects, as well as the use of funds. A plenipotentiary executive body determined within the framework of the ICT Development Programme performs current work. Projects and programmes for implementation of the National Strategy are directed by the ICT Council through an executive body to the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic for inclusion in the republican budget as a separate budget line. 1.1.5.3 Economic and financial measures for implementation of the National Strategy Implementation of the National Strategy and its basic objectives should be embodied in the Programme of Information and Communicational Technologies for Development, approved by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic. It is expedient that financial support to national, social, scientific-technical and educational projects in ICT area be rendered through the Fund on ICT Development created especially by the Kyrgyz Republic Government. The ICT Development Fund accumulates funds of the state budget, non-budgetary resources, credits, investments and commercial funds attracted in accordance with legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic. ICT programs and projects are financed from the ICT Development Fund. Necessary interventions for the ICT area are: • creation of an effective mechanism for attraction of investments, and accumulation, coordination and distribution of resources; • effective monitoring and control over the use of these resources; • ensuring correlation of financing with a strategy for development of a uniform information space in the Kyrgyz Republic. An executive body, authorised by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, conducts analytical work regarding the status of ICT development in the republic, and produces the summary report on expenditures on ICT development for an accounting year. The results of the budget execution are submitted by the given body to the ICT Council, the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic. The ICT Council reviews proposals on financing 13