agencies and departments of GoSL in a costeffective and secure manner.      Provide inter-connectivity to all Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) organizations. Provide centrally managed Internet access to all GoSL organizations. Provide centrally managed email access (with web based email access) to all GoSL organizations. Provide centrally managed IP telephony facility to GoSL organizations. Provide centrally managed trusted secure connection to authorized agencies that are outside of the purview of GoSL Metadata Data which describes data. Common data vocabulary and definitions are critical for egovernment solutions that include crossorganizational functions and system boundaries. This includes operational data, analytic data and web content. Multilingual Data Multilingual data is data which need to be stored in multiple languages when an application needs to support multilingualism. This should include Reference Data, most of Master Data, and sometimes Transactional Data. National level ICT Projects large-scale projects involving generally several government and other organizations of which the impact is experienced beyond a single or limited number of organizations, and the implantation of which impact the operations of these organizations. Open standard The following are defined as a set of requirements should be followed by a provider of specifications to qualify as an Open Standard; transparency (due process is public and all technical discussions, etc are archived and referencable), relevance, openness (anybody can participate), impartiality and consensus, availability, maintenance (source W3C). At present, ISO/IEC 26300:2006 is an adopted open standard that meets the common definitions of an open standard. Shared IPR Intellectual property rights developed by a government agency and a technology provider working in partnership, and where both parties share interests in the property rights. 28