Policies and Standards

This speaks to the standards and policies which governs the use of ICT in the Public Sector.  Integrating national ICT strategies overlaps with four well-established policy fields: that of

• Technology.
• Industry.
• Telecommunications.
• Media.

Increasingly, there is a growing interdependence between the development of ICT policies and sectoral policies. The successful execution of these policies will depend on how well the public sector is involved in the development and implementation process

Experience to date has shown that, in the absence of an existing national ICT policy, the tendency is towards the creation of sector-dependent policy that addresses only its own ICT needs. These policies become firmly entrenched within the sector and later attempts to integrate them into a broad all-encompassing ICT policy become difficult.

In order to mitigate against these hazards, the Government of Jamaica using the consultative process has developed the E-Powering 2012 and Vision 2030.