11 ¾ Development of a policy and possibly a combination of legislation and industry codes of conduct to deal with the protection of personal privacy, particularly in the context of cross-border data flow, health care, and financial services. 4.6 Other legal issues will require examination in the medium to longer term. For example, a review of the Penal Code and other regulatory legislation will determine whether Botswana is prepared to deal with new cyber-crimes. Tax policies and mutual taxation agreements may require review and negotiation to ensure that Botswana receives its fair share of taxation revenues from e-commerce. The desire to have more access to Government information that was expressed in community visits indicates that access to information legislation should be explored to provide a framework for access (and its flip-side, protection of personal and commercial privacy) for citizens. 4.7 More information about proposed future action can be found in the Action Plans developed for the recommendations of the Legal and Policy Task Force, as well as for the other Task Forces. 5.0 Proposals 5.1 The study on Legal e-Readiness and the Legal Gap Analysis indicate that a number of legislative and policy changes will be required to provide the legal and policy infrastructure needed to support Maitlamo. The responsibility for these changes is shared among a number of Ministries and several Parastatal organisations. Co-ordination and priority setting across Government will be required to achieve the necessary results within an acceptable time period. 5.2 Given the number of issues that must be resolved, the various interests and parties that must be consulted, and the co-ordination that must be achieved, it is critical that both political and administrative will at the highest levels of all relevant Government Ministries, Local Authorities and Parastatal Organisations be harnessed to drive the legislative and legal policy initiatives of Maitlamo. It is also critical that a mechanism be created to co-ordinate these initiatives and to ensure that accountability is maintained for the delivery of these inter-related, yet separate, initiatives within the target time periods. 5.3 To assure that high level support is provided to these initiatives and to co-ordinate and ensure accountability for the development and delivery of legislative initiatives and programmes, an Inter-ministerial Legal