3.1.4 Policy Statements
1. Since ICT is a powerful development facilitator, the Government will embrace ICT as an integral part of its development strategy and empower all citizens to use it to fight poverty, ignorance and disease so as to improve the quality of their lives.
2. The Government shall create the necessary enabling environment to facilitate the deployment, utilisation and exploitation of ICT in all sectors of life.
3. The Government shall annually allocate funds equivalent to a reasonable proportion of GDP for ICT deployment, diffusion and universal access.
4. The Government shall promote the creation of bilateral relations and cooperation with regional and international organisations that generate, process, store and disseminate ICT driven information in order to expand and strengthen local ICT capacity.
5. The Government will promote the development and/or acquisition of flexible standard information processing methods and facilities and oversee their utilisation by all users of ICT in the national network in order to effect or ensure compatibility.
6. The Government will encourage public, private and community sector partnerships to jointly invest in ICT development.