Country Readiness Assessment Report – Kyrgyzstan . the branches and recommends to the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic adoption of the corresponding measures. 1.1.5.4 Monitoring and evaluation system creation to track implementation of the National Strategy Monitoring and evaluation of ICT development should be placed as a priority task of the national information policy. Some components of the system of monitoring and evaluation of the status of ICT development in the country have been already created. The President’s Decree of 18 June 2001, №199 ‘On the Council on Information and Communicational Technologies under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic’ established the ICT Council. The Kyrgyz Republic Government’s Resolutions of 8 November 2001, №697 and of 23 July 2001, №367 adopted correspondingly the Program on ICT development in the Kyrgyz Republic, and the Regulations for operations of public administration bodies in the State Computer Network according to which a responsible ICT staff position should be created in all public administration bodies and local state administrations. The Ministry of Justice of the Kyrgyz Republic has registered the Center of ICT Development at the Ministry of Transport and Communication. 1.1.5.5 International cooperation and donor support for the National Strategy Objective: the observance of interests of the Kyrgyz Republic in international information exchange; the inclusion of national information and telecommunication nets and resources in the global infrastructure; the attraction of investments and donors assistance; ensuring security of national information resources and information–telecommunication infrastructure. Donors provide significant and critical support to the initiatives on ICT sector development in Kyrgyzstan. The donors’ assistance is expressed in two different ways: in direct support to ICT sector capacity, and in indirect support to the sector through the application of information technologies in donors’ programs and projects. As regards direct support to the sector, the activities of UNDP, World Bank and EBRD have been notable in the improvement of the overall performance of the telecommunication system. USAID assists in the use of ICT in public health and other sectors. The NATO scientific program supports the development of national academic research and educational networks. UNDP pays great attention to ICT sector development in public administration, development of human resources, and in private and civil sectors, expressed both via a number of projects and programmes in these areas, and via sponsorship of the National ICT Summit, a strategically important contribution towards the formation of Kyrgyzstan’s national strategy. Inter-state programs of partner countries include the Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Canada, USA, Turkey, Switzerland and Japan. These have had a significant effect in stimulating development of ICT sector capacity, and on the implementation of information technologies in Kyrgyzstan. At the meeting of the Great Eight countries in Okinava City in Japan, the Japanese Government expressed their intention to increase financing of programmes on capacity development of information technologies in developing countries. For ICT development in Kyrgyzstan it is very important that international organisations and donor countries continue their strategic support for the ICT sector. Donating finance in this way will be a priority programme, allowing donors to play an active part in formation and implementation of the National Strategy. 14