58 • • • Meeting the demand for access to Government information through a structured regime that both creates rights of access and provides adequate protection for personal and commercial privacy. Ensuring that legislation and policies remain technology neutral or, in the alternative, where a technology is favoured, that it is done after careful analysis of the costs and benefits. Examining the use of the .bw domain and ensuring that adequate dispute resolution mechanisms are in place regarding domain allocations. 8.3 Discussion: 8.3.1 The Legal and Policy Task Force identified selected priorities, which are outlined above. These priorities were identified taking into account the objectives and priorities of the other Task Forces. For example, both the Health and the Economic Development Task Forces stressed the importance of establishing a regime for secure electronic signatures in order to move their recommendations forward. The discussion in this Annex deals with the identified priorities, as well as with some related items, such as security and cyber-crime. There are a number of other issues that will have to be dealt with in time, however. 8.3.2 A procedure should be put in place to ensure that these issues remain in Government Action plans as medium to longer-term matters. This is not to say that there are necessarily less important in many ways than the matters initially identified for action, but only that a realistic assessment of resources and capacities requires that priorities be established. 8.3.3 The Government may wish to consider requiring Ministries that put forward recommendations for legislation, policies, or procurement to justify any decisions that can be seen to limit technological innovation by moving away from, e.g., technological neutrality. 8.4 Recommendations - The Inter-ministerial Legal Reform Task Force coordinate and implement the policy and legislation required to fulfil the initial tasks identified by the Legal and Policy Task Force; in addition, the Legal Reform Task Force be asked to develop medium-term plans (2 to 6 years) to explore policy and legislative development in other ICT-related areas. - The Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology report to the Inter-Ministerial Legal Reform Task Force for inclusion in their first six-month report to Cabinet the progress that has been made regarding telecommunications liberalisation, including providing a transparent process for spectrum allocation and dealing with issues of the convergence of telecommunications and broadcasting.

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