MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS There is the need of having a specific approach in aspects of CSIRT- CR’s development to guarantee a better functionality and sustainability. These measures will make it operate efficiently and be equipped to rapidly determine threats and apply measures against them, to prevent future threats and recover from existent ones. CSIRT shall require the assignment of an explicit budget and an operational plan to be able to materialize the functions assigned. 3.3.6 National Commission for Online Security The National Commission for Online Security (CNSL)24 was created in 2010, by Decree Nº 36274MICIT with the main objective of designing the necessary policies for the good use of Internet a n d t h e Digital Technologies, contributing to c reate a culture of understanding, analysis and responsibility in people so they benefit from the advantages of using ICT and have aware and proactive attitude before the inherent risks of using these resources. The commission is headed by MICITT and integrated by representatives of the Ministry of Public Education, Ministry of Culture and Youth, National Child Welfare Agency, Judicial Power, SUTEL, CAMTIC, Fundación Omar Dengo and Fundación Paniamor. According to what the Executive Decree Nº 36274-MICIT points out many actions of the Commission should be aimed at vulnerable populations in the use of online technologies; one of these populations is childhood and adolescents in all the country. In this sense the commission formulated a work plan, based on four central themes from which derive a series of work lines; they include the strengthening of the regulatory framework, consolidation of inter-institutional articulation mechanisms, development of projects promoting online security and fostering research as basis for the formulation of actions. 3.3.7 Automation and Digitization of Online Services Available to Citizens As regards development of projects in technology, the country has created a series of initiatives in different areas such as access to public information, automation of proceedings and 24 Costa Rican Legal Information System Web Site: http://www.pgrweb.go.cr/scij/Busqueda/Normativa/Normas/nrm_texto_completo.aspx?param1=NRTC&nValor1=1&n Valor2=69239&nValor3=83075&strTipM=TC - 28 www.micitt.go.cr