Draft Regional Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Development Strategy

In keeping with the WSIS and the Regional Plan of Action, eLAC2007, the region has indicated four (4) pillars of regional integration that should be facilitated by ICTs: 1. Foreign policy coordination; 2. Economic integration; 3. Functional cooperation and 4. Security. There is not however a broad coordinated regional strategy to effect implementation in this regard, nor any coordination agency to ensure timely and effective results. Such a Regional ICT strategy for Development (The Regional Digital Development Strategy (RDdS)), would serve to build the sustainable knowledge society in the shortest possible time.