The government is coming up with an ambitious plan that aims to make 70 per cent of its services available online by 2018. For this, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MoSTE) has planned to integrate all e-services of the government to national portal.
This plan has been incorporated in the draft of the Information Technology (IT) Roadmap prepared by MoSTE. The draft roadmap, which charts out plans for long-term development of the ICT sector, has proposed to adopt immediate, medium and long-term action plans.
The plan envisages fostering e-governance and implementing programmes to enhance use of ICT in health, education, agriculture and tourism by involving the concerned ministries and departments.
The roadmap has immediate implementation plan to be executed within a year, medium-term implementation plan of three years and five-year long-term implementation plan. MoSTE officials said that multiple ministries would be involved to achieve the targets set in the roadmap and a committee under the chief secretary would monitor and evaluate the action plan.
Recently, MoSTE sent the draft to all ministries for their suggestions and inputs. “Since implementation part of the roadmap is related to multiple ministries, their feedback is a must,” said Gokarna Mani Duwadi, spokesperson of MoSTE, adding that after getting feedback and accommodating it, the draft will be sent to the Cabinet for approval.
The roadmap has adopted five strategies — creating enabling environment for ICT enabled economic growth, fostering e-government, enhancing use of ICT for development, focusing on ICT human resource development, and promoting IT Industry. MoSTE officials said that the roadmap was basically based on the areas focused in the IT Policy.
As per the draft roadmap, IT sector will be among the top 10 major contributors in the national GDP by the next five years and all basic ICT infrastructures will be developed across the nation. It has proposed to develop a Smart City, use IT Park for IT services under a public-private partnership model and promote Sanga of Bhaktapur, Banepa, Panauti and Dhulikhel as special economic zones for ICT industry. Similarly, it has talked of implementing special domestic preferential system to promote Nepali IT companies.
A high-level official at the Ministry of Information and Communications, however, said they were yet to receive the roadmap draft. “Setting targets is not that big a deal, but what we lack is effective implementation and avoiding project duplication,” he added.
The draft includes over 60 agendas for implementation within five years with involvement of ministries, including Information and Communications, Education, Health, Federal Affairs and Local Development, Agriculture, Tourism, Finance, General Affairs and government agencies like Nepal Rastra Bank, Nepal Telecommunications Authority, National ID Management Centre and Central Bureau of Statistics.
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