Department of Information Technology

Activity Code	Activity Name	Agency	Year of Imp.	Status	Remarks
Strategy P1, RGoB will use ICT to make governance more efficient, transparent and inclusive.
P1.2	Establish policies on ICT security	RCSC	2006	Not Started	3retret
P1.1	Establish policies on information-sharing between agencies	DIT	2006	Completed	The policy guidelines has been endorsed by the government in Setpember 2006
P1.3	Establish policies on use of free and open source software	DIT	2006	Ongoing	Dzongkha localization open source development and backend server in place
P1.4	Email recognised as official Government correspondence	RCSC	2007	Not Started
P1.5	Introduce 'e-Gazette' as official RGoB publication of record	DIT	2007	Not Started
P1.6	Establish ICT Units in each Ministry and major autonomous agency	All / RCSC	2005	Completed
P1.7	Establish ICT Units in each dzongkhag	Dzongkhag / RCSC	2007	Ongoing
P1.8	Each Ministry, autonomous body and agency to provide 75% of all possible public services deliverable through ICT	All	2010	Ongoing	labour net by MoLHR -Sepcific site created for reporting the corruption online and also forum for discussion created
P1.9	Streamline and automate business and ICT licensing processes	MTI	2006	Completed	The rules and regulations and the prescribed froms on trade license, import license, import registration and other useful related information are made available online.
P1.10	Establish system for online citizen polling on Government policies and issues	DIT	2005	Completed	It is incorporated in the government portal
P1.11	Publish senior RGoB official's email addresses	All	2006	Completed
P1.12	Publish all public Government reports online	All	2006	Ongoing	75% completed
Strategy P2, By 2007, Introduce a 'light-touch' and modern regulatory environment.
P2.1	Finalise ICM Act and introduce to National Assembly	MoIC	2005	Completed	Endorsed during teh 86th Session of National Assembly, 2006
P2.2	Legislate for access to and dissemination of information	MoIC	2006	Completed	ICM Act takes care of it
P2.3	Enforce intellectual property legislation	MTI	2007	Not Started
P2.4	Introduce a liberalised and competitive telecommunications regime	MoIC	2007	Ongoing	Regime introduced, BICMA formed and second mobile operator
P2.5	Encourage FDI in ICT industry and infrastructure	MoIC	2007	Ongoing	licensed implemented case by case.IT Park and Call Centres
Strategy P3, By 2006, strengthen the existing policy and regulatory bodies to cope with ICT policy and regulatory environment
P3.1	Strengthen the existing regulatory bodies	RCSC	2006	Not Started
Strategy P4, By 2005, investigate ways to fund and reduce the cost of ICT services throughout Bhutan
P4.1	Develop a plan for the national ICT Infrastructure Fund (NICTIF), taking into account the Universal Service Fund	MoIC	2005	Completed	Rules detailing the modus operandi of the fund is being formulated by BICMA as per the provisions of the ICM Act
P4.2	Explore ways of reducing cost of the ICT hardware, software and services: -'walled garden' of the Bhutanese web content; -demand aggregation initiatives	DIT	2005	Completed