Below are specific strategies to achieve the ICT policy objectives for the agriculture and natural resources, education and health sectors:

Agriculture and Natural Resources

ICT will be utilised to set up a system of information exchange, which will facilitate communication and harmonising between the provinces regarding agricultural production and commercialisation. In order to do this, support programmes for rural workers and associations will be arranged by making information on agricultural techniques and the management of natural resources accessible via the internet; ICT supported models of community management of natural resources will be developed; telecentres that offer basic training in informatics for agriculturalists and rural populations will be assisted; agriculturalists and their associations will be encouraged to utilise the internet to advertise and sell their products; and a modern system of geographical information (GIS) will be created. In addition, an electronic control system for wildlife in the national parks and reserves will be created.

Education

ICT will be utilised to provide more effective services in the educational sector. This will be accomplished by creating incentives and developing the teaching of informatics at various levels of the National System of Education; broadening the use of the internet in schools; preparing teachers to be advocates of ICT in schools; promoting competitions and national exhibitions of ICT for young scientists; and progressively providing educational institutions with the equipment required for access to, and good command of, ICT.

Health

ICT will be utilised to improve and modernise the administration of health services. This will be achieved through setting up informatics systems to the maximum extent possible for the administration of health services; the extension of telemedicine to all central and provincial hospitals; the creation of an electronic health network with fundamental information for professionals in this sector; dissemination, via the internet, of basic information for public education on the nature and best methods of prevention of infectious and contagious diseases, especially sexually-transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS; the creation of an informatics network of State pharmacies with up-to-date information on the availability of medicines; dissemination of information, in cooperation with health professionals, on the benefits and advantages of using ICT in their sector; the recounting of success stories about the use of ICT in health; and the encouragement of health professionals to acquire the essential knowledge to utilise ICT efficiently in their work.

Community Stakeholders and Partners:

Community stakeholders and partners include state institutions, the public and private sectors, teaching and research institutions, non-governmental and socio-economic organisations, and citizens and the general public.

Government: The government’s role in the sector will include, among other things: development of the vision, policy, and legal framework that will regulate the activities and connections of all the stakeholders. The government will also make available the necessary resources for the implementation of the vision and policy and systematically evaluate its results. Finally, the state will play a key role in seeking and channelling resources to invest in the supporting infrastructure for ICT in partnership with national and foreign businesses.

Private Sector: The private sector will be called upon to play a catalytic role in the creation and consolidation of the Informatics Society through stimulating the economic growth of, and participating in, the development of a national ICT infrastructure and realising business opportunities resulting from the implementation of the Information Society.

Higher Education and Research institutions: These institutions will play the major role in seeking and implementing solutions and methodologies which will allow the expansion of the use of ICT for production processes, the provision of services, the improvement of teaching and learning, research, and so on in order to improve living conditions for the people of Mozambique.

Civil Society: The role of civil society will include exploiting the information and knowledge disseminated through the use of ICT; spreading the use of ICT in carrying out community programmes; utilising ICT as a vehicle for the transmission and dissemination of information in development programmes; and incorporating ICT as a component in community development programmes and in programmes of cooperation with international organisations and other countries.

Development partners: Development partners will be called on to support in all possible ways the formulation of the Informatics Policy and its Implementation Strategy. These partners will respond to the strategies outlined by this country, not those imposed from abroad on a base of limited knowledge and understanding of national realities. Development partners will be integral to this process by providing financial and technical support for projects and programmes, with a view to their realisation; mobilising the support of other partners in the fundamental areas of education, teaching of instructors, infrastructure and universal access, health, governance, scientific research, electronic commerce, etc.; facilitating the establishment of links and relationships between national institutions and researchers and similar institutions and researchers abroad; supporting programmes of information and technology transfer within the country and to help retain qualified technical people in Mozambique; and supporting the participation of Mozambique in international forums concerned with the use of ICT for development.