Kathmandu, June 26
Parliament’s Development and Technology Committee has directed the government to make arrangement for registering the names of the government website domain by a government agency.
Citing the weak cyber security, the House
panel asked the government and the Ministry of Communication and Information
Technology to do the job, which was so far been performed by the private sector
service providers, from the government agency.
After holding discussion with the Minister
for Communication and Information Technology and high officials on ‘Cyber-crime
and security’ on Friday afternoon, the committee had directed the government
and line ministry to conduct the mandatory security audit of the government
websites and information technology service provider companies.
Likewise, it directed the government to
create legal provision to download all the web-based and social networking apps
only after the approval of the respective regulator of the sector.
“Create a provision to allow the download
only after the regulator’s assurance that the application is appropriate in
terms of security, privacy and utility,” read the decision of the committee.
It directed the government to effectively
implement the programme to expand the high-speed broadband internet service to
the ward offices, health institutions and secondary schools across the country.
The committee asked for the proper use of
government documents and directed the government and the ministry to publish
government letters, documents, information and notices only through the
official website and emails.
Likewise, it asked to enhance the capacity
of the responsible government officials in terms of the information technology
and use of electronic devices.
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