JORDAN NATIONAL INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY (2013-2017) Governance Structure Executing the proposed National ICT Strategy 2013 – 2017 will require integration and coordination among all relevant stakeholders to implement the recommendations and initiatives articulated in the Strategy. All of the initiatives and actions identified to implement the strategy require the cooperation of often different stakeholders. As such, it is important to subdivide the responsibility of follow up on implementing specific objectives to the participating stakeholders responsible for specific objectives as well as the defined actions. Executing the National ICT Strategy is a complex undertaking. It is important that a National Task Force, a Program Management Unit (PMU) and a Technical Support Unit (TSU) be created to be responsible for identifying, managing and overseeing the execution of highly specific tasks and activities to achieve the strategy’s defined objectives. The TSU will be responsible for developing and preparing documents and studies which identify specific tasks and actions required to develop the telecommunications sector for the purpose of facilitating economic private sector and IT sector development. Moreover, the TSU will work on prioritizing its recommendations to direct the PMU to provide rational and studied guidance to the implementing committees. The PMU would report to the National Task Force which would be comprised of stakeholders from the public, private and NGO sectors. The National Task Force would derive its authority from the cooperating stakeholders. The private sector and public sector are jointly responsible for determining and securing the annual funding requirements for the PMU and TSU and to jointly contribute to the funding of both units. The national task force is expected to be a voluntary task force made up of relevant stakeholders who fund the PMU and TSU. It is also the joint responsibility of MoICT and the ICT private sector to seek support to secure funding for the execution of the defined activities needed to achieve the stipulated objectives. GoJ support includes communicating ICT Strategic Plan objectives and activities as a national priority when seeking international donor funding and technical assistance. MoICT, MoPIC, relevant GoJ entities and the private sector are likely to have to revisit the prioritization of the defined activities and strategic objectives depending on availability of funding and define where donor technical assistance can fill needs defined by the activities and objectives. As funding is expected to remain a challenge, it is likely to consider private sector commercial investments, whenever feasible, to achieve many of the stated objectives. Execution of activities and achievement of objectives is directly related to obtaining funding allocated for specific activities and/or recruiting international technical assistance for the same purpose. Individual committees should be formed from the responsible stakeholders identified for each strategic objective to oversee and execute highly specific tasks required for each strategic objective. Each committee would be responsible for delivering/achieving the required KPI’s and would report to the Program Management Unit. Committees should meet periodically (as determined as necessary by the individual committees) to execute the specific actions at timings that are agreed upon by the individual committees. The committees would report to the Program Management Unit regarding the progress being made in implementing the specific task as well as identifying any potential obstacles that might be faced. The Program Management Unit will monitor, evaluate and report the progress and or obstacles to implementing the National ICT Strategy to the National Task Force. The National Task Force would be chaired by 23