(1) The Government may provide financial and technical support or other necessary support to any national agency, local government, or public institution that develops and operates applied services for improving efficiency in processing its business affairs or automatizing or upgrading its business process by utilizing information and communications networks (hereinafter referred to as "applied services for information and communications networks").
(2) The Government may provide financial and technical support or other necessary support to the private sector with an aim of facilitating the development of applied services for information and communications networks by the private sector; and shall prepare the following policy measures for nurturing technical human resources necessary to develop applied services for information and communications networks:
1. Support for Internet education conducted by schools at different levels and other educational institutions;
2. Extension of Internet education for citizens;
3. Support for projects to cultivate technical human resources specializing in information and communications networks;
4. Establishment of and support for institutions to cultivate technical human resources specializing in information and communications networks;
5. Support for development and dissemination of educational programs for utilizing information and communications networks;
6. Support for establishment of the technical qualification system related to information and communications networks and support for supply of technical human resources specializing in information and communications networks on demand;
7. Other matters necessary to cultivate technical human resources related to information and communications networks.[This Article Wholly Amended on Jun. 13, 2008]