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Sunday, 16 May 2010 22:52
Belize ICT Profile
BELIZE ICT PROFILE
| POLICY STATEMENTS
The 2003 manifesto on which the return to office of the People’s United Party of Belize was based, promised “a high tech Belize” as a means of helping poor people bypass some traditional barriers to development, assuring, that the computer will become as commonplace in homes, at school and in the workplace as television sets. To achieve this, competition in the telecommunications market would be encouraged in order to lower rates, ensure a community ‘phone and internet access in every village and promote affordable internet access everywhere. Commitments were made to: restructure educational institutions to provide ICT skill development and prepare professionals able to maximize ICT use for development; provide opportunities for the existing workforce to retrain to meet the new ICT thrust; develop incentives for the private sector to have computer literate employees and to reduce the brain drain; provide the legislative and regulatory framework for effective licensing of new technologies; establish, with the support of the relevant international organizations, a permanent National ICT Advisory Body to recommend strategies for a National ICT Policy and to monitor developments in the field; apply ICT in particular to the health and education services, including the provision of country-wide distance learning; formulate an investment policy which targets, and provides greater incentives to, strategic industries that will have significant spin-off effects in transferring ICT to Belizeans; formulate a National Telecommunications Policy that will regulate competition, interconnection, tariff and network development; implement specific strategies for the roll-out of the telecommunications infrastructure to rural communities; design strategies to ensure that the Public Utilities Commission is adequately funded, expertly staffed and that it operates proactively and transparently; and establish a Science and Technology Park |
| STRATEGIC PLAN
There does not appear to be a detailed strategic plan for ICTs. However, the Public Sector Reform document entitled: Charting the way forward – 2000 and beyond outlines the following strategy in respect of information technology: “If the Belize Public Sector is to keep pace with developments in the global sphere, its modernization must embrace advancements in information technology (IT). The Government will therefore seek to modernize the Belize Public Sector through information technology to facilitate efficient decision-making, public administration and policy implementation. It will also seek to provide an information policy framework for Government institutions. Furthermore:
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The Laws of Belize are available on the Internet and on CD-Rom. |
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