National ICT Strategic Plan x Government of St Kitts and Nevis The combined use of open source software and proprietary software should be pursued and open source software systematically applied whenever appropriate, especially in the public sector. x The current legislation should be revised in order to exempt certain value added and notfor-profit services from the need to obtain telecommunications licenses. For example opening a small Internet Café of less than ten computers is a very involved and costly process. Streamlining this could possibly help facilitate the creation of more of these type of services. x The regulatory authorities should be required to constantly review the range of services that are available or could become available under normal economic conditions in the countries with a view to updating the definition of those services included under universal service and ensure that access to high quality services is not restricted de facto to certain categories of citizens and organisations. Ministry of Finance, Sustainable Development, Information and Technology November, 2006 26