SECTION B 5 LINKAGE BETWEEN SOCIAL-ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ICT DEVELOPMENT In this policy, the following eleven pillars have been identified as key to the socio-economic development of Sierra Leone: • Private Sector Business Activity • Capacity Building and Human Resources in ICT • Infrastructure • Health • Education • Natural Resources and Environment • Agriculture and Food Security • Good Governance • Gender, Youth and Social Services • Media and Civil Society • Tourism These eleven pillars cover basic social, political and economic needs that have been identified by the Government as areas in which ICT development can play a key role, providing opportunities for further social growth and cohesion through ICT enabled solutions. Annex A1 provides the Government’s strategic policy considerations identified in relation to the eleven pillars, listing the challenges, objectives and targeted solution to the issues through the use of ICTs. From Annex A1 are culled the issues listed in the eleven tables below that are considered to be of first and utmost priority in the implementation of this policy. Also presented are the Government’s preferred ICT solutions, the key stakeholder(s) tasked with oversight responsibility for implementation of the solutions and the PRSP (I&II) and MDG references. Following the tables is a Gantt timeline chart for the implementation of the priority ICT solutions over a period of 5 years (2010-2014). The Government anticipates a concerted and timely effort at implementation by the MDA’s most closely linked to the solutions, the private sector, the donor community and the full support of citizens both at home and in the Diaspora. ICT Policy of Sierra Leone Page 23 / 63