b) To ensure that ICT policies, laws and regulations accommodate the interests
of disadvantaged members of society and building their capacity.
c) To facilitate domestic and foreign investment for the development of ICT by
creating a conducive legal and regulatory environment.
3.4.3.1.2. Strategies
a) Implement appropriate legal and regulatory frame works.
b) Formulate legal frameworks pertinent to the development of information
resources and services, and integrate them with development policies,
strategies and programs.
c) Review and improve upon existing policies, laws and regulations to facilitate
the exploitation and widespread application of ICT.
d) Remove existing policy, legal and regulatory impediments to the development
of ICT.
e) Develop a legal base for enforcing electronic archive, presentation, utilization
and disposal.
f) Create conducive legal and regulatory environment that facilitates domestic
and foreign direct investment in order to facilitate the development of ICT.
g) Review and improve upon licensing procedures to ensure access to a wide
range of ICT services, particularly in the rural areas.
h) Periodically review the legal and regulatory framework in order to keep
abreast of developments within the national and global ICT industry.
i) Develop ICT and related regulatory frameworks, in order to address ICT’s
socially undesirable activities.
j) Implement guidelines and standards for quality control and management in
ICT products and service delivery.
k) Adopt regional and international standards and best practices in the
development of ICT rules, guidelines and regulations.
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