3.7.4. Strategies a) Develop an ICT research and development transfer policy and strategy. b) Allocate adequate resources /budget to research and development transfer for hardware and software development, communications, information networks, technology etc. c) Promote applied and need-based research and development transfer activities so as to increase the levels of technological innovation. d) Promote research and development transfer in areas such as standard characterset, language interoperability, electronic dictionaries and thesaurues uses, and multilingual search engines for widely spoken indigenous languages, in order to facilitate accessibility. e) Network research and development transfer activities conducted by public and private establishments for sharing best practices from lessons learned across sectors. f) Provide different incentives to the private sector to invest in research and development transfer activities. g) Disseminate information on new development in ICT arising from research findings. 22