Oversight Authority for inclusion in the Market Price Index. 7. The Government will liaise with all relevant government agencies to require that all new commercial and private developments are designed and adequately provided with facilities for high-speed connectivity 8. The Government will be open to, support and encourage the development of new business models that provide for infrastructure sharing or the provision of services in under-served and unserved areas. The government will design incentives, or provide funding on such terms and in such manner as will best achieve ubiquitous broadband access. Internet Exchange Points: Internet Exchange Points (IXP) help strengthen the local Internet ecosystem, develop the local Internet industry. Their benefits include:  Improve Internet quality and affordability in local communities;  Improved local Internet connectivity;  Improve competitiveness;  Serve as a hub for technical activity; and  Encourage local service hosting and local content development and applications. The Government encourages partnerships that seek to enhance peering and interconnection through deploying additional IXPs and use of deployed infrastructure, including national and international fibre cables, and local data centre development. Data Centres: The Government will develop guidelines for current and future data centres to avoid inefficient public and private ad-hoc investments. With the mandated requirement for the licensing of county based last-mile service providers, County governments are encouraged to create shared data centres for local peering and internet traffic exchange. In support of this policy objective: 1. All government Ministries, Departments and Agencies shall share and optimise data centre infrastructure. All government data centres, not specifically designated for national security purposes, shall be Ministry of ICT, Kenya approved by the Ministry of ICT, which will not permit new investment where there is available capacity in any other ministry that may be used, thus providing a cost efficient, scalable and secure environment for government data and information storage; 2. The government will promote, encourage and license private sector investment in neutral data centres by companies incorporated for that purpose; 3. Encourage Kenyan businesses and County governments to share data centre infrastructure to minimise network duplication; 4. This policy mandates the development of standards for data centres, providing legal and regulatory coherence with Kenyan safety and environmental protection standards. The standards will take cognisance of national disaster recovery and resilience frameworks, and the constitutional requirements of devolution and diversity; 5. Regulations and laws will be enacted that specifically ensure that data is processed fairly and lawfully in accordance with the rights of citizens and obtained only for specific, lawful purposes, and that clearly establish that all data on a person is owned by the person; 6. The government will ensure the availability of basic infrastructure for approved data centers, such as reliable grid power, subsidised or discounted electric power costs, access to the national publicly-owned data transport backbone, security within the context of the national cyber-security framework, physical policing plans, and the national data classification guidelines. All centres that hold public data must be a minimum of a level 2 Data Centre. Rights of Way/Way Leaves: Rights of way, way leaves, permits and clearances have been a persistent and recurring challenge to the deployment of cabling plant, towers and other infrastructure. The Government will: 1. Work with County Governments to develop harmonised way leave guidelines and charges that protect the ICT infrastructure, optimise usage, protect the environment and roads, and prevent multiple charges; 14/37 November-2019