2 POLICY PRIORITY AREAS
2.1 Legal Framework
Given the globalization drive and increased use of IT services; electronic Commerce/Business
is on the increase and offers great new opportunities for economic growth. On the negative side,
IT related crime is also on the increase. The existing legal framework is inadequate to address
emerging complexities and where available enforcement is low. To this end government shall:
Policy Strategies
1. Review and amend the relevant Laws and Acts to address the gaps in the existing legal
framework for e-Commerce and cyber crime.
2. Advocate for curriculum review at Law Development Centre (LDC) to include basic IT,
contemporary IT issues, law and IT, during professional legal training.
3. Advocate for training and re-training of all personnel in the Justice, Law and Order Sector
(JLOS) in applying and using IT to improve the delivery of justice.
4. Review and ensure enforcement of cyber laws (Electronic Signature, Electronic Transactions
and Computer Misuse).
2.2 IT Infrastructure
The national infrastructure network still has a low coverage to enable universal access and
hence bandwidth is extremely slow and costly. There is heavy reliance on satellite connection to
connect to the Internet. This has hampered the usage of IT in the country.
To this end government shall:
Policy Strategies
1.
Scale up the National Backbone Infrastructure (NBI) to cover the whole country to
simplify the mode and speed of service delivery to the public. This will help to reduce
duplication of effort by various arms of Government.
2.
Expedite the process of connecting to the submarine cables.
3.
Encourage participation of the private sector in IT infrastructure development.
4.
Put in place mechanisms for quality assurance in infrastructure development
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