Country Readiness Assessment Report – Kyrgyzstan . 1.1.4 State support in the development of the priority areas of the national strategy 1.1.4.1 Development of ICT-related legislation Objective: establishment of legal bases for wide use of information-communication technologies in civil society, economy, public administration, and in the state’s relations with citizens and organizations. The rule-making process ought to be transparent and open. Citizens should have access to legislative regulations of the Kyrgyz Republic in different forms, including via the Internet, as established by the republic’s legislation. The main directions in which legislation regulating the ICT area is developing are: • • • • • • • • • increasing access to information: ensuring the right of individuals to access socially significant information without violating principles of information openness; intellectual property: adequately protecting intellectual property in the ICT area; ensuring the creation of: equal conditions for competitiveness and the elimination of monopolies in the information and telecommunications market, as well as in that of products and technologies; and favorable conditions for attracting investment; digital contracts: adoption of legislative acts in the area of electronic trade (digital bargains), admitting coded electronic cards (smart-cards), digital money, cyber-cash and digital signatures; taxation: improvement of tax policy to stimulate development of electronic commerce and provision of electronic services; legislation on offshore programming; legislative regulation of entrepreneurship activity in ICT area should ensure transparent procedures of licensing and certification, and eliminate non-justifiable barriers to business development; protection of consumers and of private life; computer crimes: effective measures to fight online fraud and hackers, with simultaneous reservation of anonymity and limitation of state control; harmonization of the Republic’s information legislation with standards of international law. 1.1.4.2 Development of infrastructure for informatisation Objective: development of information and telecommunication infrastructure as well as other kinds of communication for to ensure the participatory approach highlighted by leaders of the Great Eight in August 2000 in Okinava City in their Charter on the Global Information Society: all people everywhere and without exception should be ensured opportunities to benefit from the advantages of an information society. Main tasks: • • ensuring the technical opportunity for access by the whole population - private, nongovernmental and state organisations - to information and telecommunication services; development of State Computer Network, scientific-educational computer networks, and commercial systems of telecommunications as the bases of the information infrastructure of society, the economy, public administration, education and public 10