3.0 Plan-Specific Actions and Time-Bound Measurable (TBM) Targets
Plan-Specific Actions
Plan-Action
Prerequisites and
Linkages
Time-Bound Measurable
Targets
Plan-Action
Implementation
Agency
Initiative to set-up 'Public Data Processing Centers’
(PDPCs)
C3.1
Note: The PDPCs will be set-up to provide computing
services to SMEs, the self-employed local business people
and individuals without there own computer systems. They
will also serve as Business Service Centers to provide,
secretarial; offices address services and computer services
to the business community especially those operating in the
service sector.
Prerequisites:
Non
Plan-Action Linkages:
Non
These Centers are expected to be set-up as private initiatives
with some support form the Ministry of Commerce,
Industry and Tourism.
Ministry of Commerce, Industry
and Tourism to facilitate the
setting-up of pilot PDPCs with
private sector involvement by
2002
Ministry of Commerce, Industry
and Tourism to encourage and
facilitate the setting up of PDPCs
through individual private sector
initiatives.
Special Schemes to Promote PC Penetration into the
Community
C3.2
Note: These schemes will be targeted at implementing a
number of special initiatives by Government, the Private
Sector and other stakeholders to facilitate among other
things: the lowering of the cost of PCs; the promotion of
easy-installment payment schemes, the provision of bank
loans to qualified individuals, and organization for the
purchase of PCs; computer donations by computer
companies and other businesses to schools, hospitals
community-based organizations; bulk donations of used and
new computers by Donor Agencies and International
organizations; the arrangement large-volume bargain price
imports of PCs; multi-lateral funding arrangements etc.
Ministry of
Commerce, Industry
and Tourism
The Private Sector
Ministry of Finance
and Economic
Planning
Prerequisites:
Non
Plan-Action Linkages:
E1.3, E1.4, H4.1, H4.2
196
of
Finance
and
Ministry
Economic
Planning
in
collaboration with other Agencies
and Interested Stakeholders to by
2002 launch schemes to promote
PC Penetration within the
community
The Private Sector
The Local
Commercial Banks
International Donor
Agencies (IDAs)