• Empower communities and disadvantaged groups, reinforce participatory approaches and good governance and foster networking; • Build a public service that allows and encourages electronic access to public information, and facilitates low-cost electronic transactions with the civil society. The Plan will take a five-year time horizon, and establish the framework for a knowledge-based society as the platform on which to foster, accelerate and sustain long-term economic development. The development of a knowledge-based society will be through training and re-training, and otherwise strengthening of our human resource through the availability of information and through local information technology service industries and technology applications. • Integral to the implementation process will be - • Government's leadership and the commitment of resources • Smart Partnership with key sectors. • The involvement of all stakeholders in the execution and the continuing development of the action plan. • Rigorous pursuit of results within the planned timeframes. The strategy will also seek to attract local and foreign investors through various investment packages and incentives, sufficient workspace with supporting technology infrastructure, as well as a pool of trained workers and professional staff. Potential investors will be aggressively targeted through a focused promotional strategy. 8 A STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN FOR GRENADA Anurag Sinha