6 7 8 new avenues for criminal, including fraudulent, activities; new threats for protection of confidential information and important infrastructure; as well as new risks of disruption of social and economic life; and ensuring that those dangers are properly addressed and managed, in particular through appropriate preparedness, education and awareness building. Individual privacy should be maintained throughout. Locally Relevant Content: Increasing availability of locally relevant sustainably supported content, especially by making global content accessible in local languages. Capacity Building: Enhancing skills necessary to utilize and develop ICTs, especially in the public service. Platform for Multi-Stakeholder and Multi-Sector Coordination and Collaboration: Recognizing that any pre-established policy cannot foresee every initiative that could benefit the development of the ICT sector, neither any one central agency can envisage and direct all of them; and therefore setting up a platform for expertise, knowledge and skills to be shared among various stakeholders and sectors, duplications to be eliminated and potential synergies exploited, thereby enabling a substantially self-organizing (although enabled and coordinated) ICT development process. Annex B sets out anticipated results (in terms of outcomes and impacts) that the Government expects to achieve by addressing the Priorities above. General Considerations The Government acknowledges that the Priorities above do not include immediate and ambitious agenda in certain important areas, including health and productive sectors as well as disaster management. The Government considers, however, that the effective utilisation of ICTs in such areas requires strengthening of the preparedness of respective institutions first, and applying an appropriate process of strategic planning. This is needed to ensure that the promotion of ICTs does not become a standalone isolated activity, but that it meaningfully contributes to the operation and development of the respective sectors. This will be achieved by implementing strategies under Priorities 4 and 7. Importantly, implementation of strategies under the Priorities above, in particular Priorities 1, 2, 3 and 5, will prepare the ground and provide a platform for initiatives in other areas. Implementation of Priority 8 will facilitate utilisation of ICTs across all areas important for socio-economic development, by enabling cross-pollination of experiences and more effective cross-utilization of resources and platforms. Priorities 25

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