National ICT Strategic Plan x Government of St Kitts and Nevis Call for and support learning and information-oriented lifelong education programmes to be coordinated by community-based organizations and other NGOs. x Expand on-going computer literacy efforts in primary and secondary schools into information literacy and cultural improvement programmes through appropriate curricular and pedagogic changes. x Train teachers in the use the computer as a tool for teaching Reading, Writing, Mathematics, Art, and other core subjects, and working with the Curriculum Development Unit (CDU) and the Education Planning Division. x Support the establishment of an Education Management Information System (EMIS) for the management of education at the school and Ministry levels. The monitoring and evaluation of the teaching-learning process with the involvement of parents and parentteacher associations (PTAs) should be a central feature of the EMIS. x Initiate the building of training and support capacity in the use and customization of open source software in order to sustain generalised use of open source software in parallel with proprietary ones. The new Saddlers High School can be a test bed for the use of open source application and system software. x Support the creation of a national or regional consortium for education that can negotiate licenses for access to learning material and courses, serve as a hub for the distribution of these materials, facilitate sharing of efforts in the use of Internet-based distance education modalities, and support the development of a national and regional inter-library loan system. Support the creation and use of digital libraries. Give strong support to educational institutions including the CFB College and the University of the West Indies for the use of ICTs in the delivery of education and the possible emergence of an open university. The concept of the Caribbean Knowledge Learning Network (CKLN) or CaribNet must also be strongly supported. Ministry of Finance, Sustainable Development, Information and Technology November, 2006 38