in managing, operating and maintaining the existing centres should be codified and used in
designing the new community access projects.
Community Portal Project
With the emerging information age, the familiar sight of a ‘black board’ outside of community
halls, advertising community events, is quickly becoming a thing of the past. However, there is
still a need to maintain community involvement and participation, and to share information
within the local communities. This is where ICT can revolutionize the way communities
collaborate with each other. The Community Portal Project is an online resource for
community information, communication, advertisements, and bulletins. Information would
need to be presented using simple gateways so that community members can access content
relevant to their community fairly quickly and easily.
As a Quick Win, a pilot initiative can be considered to launch the portal in the early
implementation phase of the Strategy. This pilot will feature a few key communities and will
showcase the prototype, detailing the layout and design as well as the type of information that
the portal will contain. Once the pilot is successfully launched, the Community Portal can then
be expanded to include all communities, and to become the new and improved way of
encouraging community participation.
Both these initiatives will incorporate an aggressive promotion and awareness campaign to
ensure that the public will utilise these facilities and services, and it will become part of their
everyday lives.
4.9 National Security
National Security Integration Programme
Several initiatives that are in train within the Royal St. Lucia Police Force need to be integrated
and interconnected with the overall administration of justice systems. This Programme is
intended to build on the existing infrastructure and to eventually feed into the largely paper‐
based justice systems to enable improved public safety and national security. It will build on the
crime reporting system and the current telecommunications infrastructure.
In the first instance, the Police Force will introduce technology‐supported command and
control systems through the introduction of robust, secure digital radio communications across
all national security organisations, commencing with the Police Force itself. Electronic
fingerprinting will be introduced and mechanisms to enable authorised access to this secure
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