Click Here & Upgrade PDF Complete Expanded Features Unlimited Pages Documents (e) deliberate measure to spread and increase public access to the Internet; Implement a deliberate and countrywide programme to attract community, civil society and private sector participation to install basic communication Services around community centres such as schools, clinics and traditional leaders palaces; (f) Make it mandatory for telephone (fixed and/or wireless) service providers to provide toll-free service to not-for-profit agencies supporting community initiatives in areas such as education, HIV/AIDS and counselling services across the country; (g) Create a regulatory and licensing framework that provides special incentives especially for youths and women in the establishment of ICT services in rural and underserved areas across the country . 6.3.3 OBJECTIVES a) To promote cost-effective last-mile technologies for providing access to commercial and public information services by communities (including the disadvantaged and physically challenged) especially in rural and underserved areas; b) To create easily accessible, affordable and innovative ICT public access points; c) To support local and indigenous content development as well as applications targeting the capturing and dissemination of local and indigenous knowledge, content and information resources as well as the promotion of Zambian languages and cultural heritage; d) To facilitate the participation of youths and women in ICTs particularly in media and content development initiatives; e) To address gender-based inequalities and instituting gender-sensitive measures to encourage the active participation of women in national and community-based ICT initiatives; and f) To use proprietary, free and open source software in content development taking into account the appropriateness of the software category. 6.3.4 STRATEGIES a) Reduce tax and tariffs on end-user consumer ICT products (consumer electronics such as computers, radios, TV, phone handsets etc) and services; 30

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