target the various components of innovation and human capital development. In order to promote innovation as the driving force for global competitiveness and economic stability, the Department of Human Resource Management, in collaboration with Ministry of Education and Youth Development and National Commission for Science and Technology (NCST), will champion the development of a National Innovation Policy which includes the elements necessary to support financing, intellectual property protection and linkages between research and development and commercialization. The National ICT Plan is closely aligned to this policy in order to ensure that synergies are created and sustained to promote multisectoral collaborations. Human Capital Development Human Capital Development refers to the skills building and uplifting of people’s lives through knowledge attainment derived through training of citizens. The MGDS II envisions that skilled and knowledgeable work force with the appropriate supporting infrastructure and equipment, proper institutional arrangement are a prerequisite for “successful implementation of its development programmes”. The human resource capital development will be done through initiatives to “change mind set, orientation of skills, work process re-engineering, improvement of institutional set up and provision of appropriate [ICTs] equipment”, MGDS II. Further, the uptake and absorption of ICT’s into the everyday activity of citizens and businesses depends in part on the level of development of our human capital to absorb and apply ICTs and on the other the availability and accessibility of ICTs and ICT infrastructure to all. 52 Deleted: to