8-2 • To review and amend the Telecommunications Act 2006 to comply with the recommendations of the ECOWAS Supplementary Acts of January 2007. • To enact a unified licensing regime and to enforce it as soon as possible. • To avoid any abuse by a dominant stakeholder and ensure a level playing field in the ICT market. • To promote affordable universal access with appropriate obligations for the licensed operators and service providers. To establish the Centre for ICT Intelligence (CII) In line with paragraph 7-2-1, the objective of this implementation plan is to determine the structure, funding and appropriate law establishing the CII as an independent and autonomous body, that shall be responsible for collating, organising and processing ICT information relevant to e-security matters on the use of ICTs in the public/private spheres of Sierra Leone. The functions of the CII shall include identifying threats to national ICT networks, analysis of e-security risks, intelligence gathering, developing and reviewing security software, privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), anti-piracy security/encryption tools for music, film and print media. The CII shall establish a national ICT skills database (and from which employees of the CII shall be chosen) and develop a Unit that shall be tasked with the development of special ICT courses for National Forces at all levels (including the top level National Security Council). 8-3 To improve Internet connectivity The Government considers broadband access a basic necessity for Sierra Leoneans. This implementation plan shall have the following objectives: • To ensure broadband Internet access at reduced and affordable cost for the end users by: o enabling the landing of submarine fibre optic cable and emerging technologies linking Sierra Leone to the rest of the world, and o ensuring that international voice or data traffic has redundant paths that are not provided by the same vendor. • To rapidly extend the scope and traffic carrying capacity of the current international gateway and to improve quality of service. • To liberalise the international gateways with a limited number of alternative gateways. • To build up a fibre optic MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) with appropriate rings to offer a reliable broadband access to all categories of users: wholesale business with ICT Policy of Sierra Leone Page 42 / 63