Country Readiness Assessment Report – Kyrgyzstan . communications in the Kyrgyz Republic. The National Communication Agency is responsible for the following: • • • • • • • monitoring and support of competition between operators; provision of equal access to electric communications networks; monitoring of conditions for the general public to use electriconic communications networks; creation, development and use of the state system of radio control; preparation, control and monitoring of the national telephone numbers system; monitoring of the quality of communication services; provision of radio frequencies to users. The “Regulation on the Coordination Council on satellite technologies under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic” was approved. The following ICT related normative acts are in place in the Kyrgyz Republic: • • • • • • • • “About electronic and mail communications”; “About informatisation”; “About legal protection of programmes for computers and databases”; “About topologies of integral microchips”; “About scientific technical information”; “About obligatory sets of documents”; “About electronic payments”; “About electronic signatures”. In order to provide legal support to the development of information technologies, it is necessary to provide the following: • • • transparency of state institutions; regulation of monopolies in telecommunications; legal regulation of new relationships arising from the development of information technologies. The “Concept of informatisation development” was approved by the President in February 1998, and aimed at creating favourable conditions to satisfy the information needs of the society. It includes: • • • • • • regulation of ownership of information; rights of private and legal entities to information; regulation of access to information; safety of information and telecommunication systems; information safety of the state, the society, and the individual; responsibilities of the members of the information environment. The law “About informatisation” of 1999 states that informatisation is a stand-alone field in the economy of the Kyrgyz Republic. This law defines the following terms: informatisation infrastructure, state and non-governmental information systems, information resources, protection 20