• A mechanism to implement the global vision of AISI at national level
• A national response to facilitate the digital inclusion of Africa and its integration into the globalization process
• An exercise for developing national ICT policies and strategies and implementable progammes
• A guiding framework for integrating ICTs into national development programmes
• A monitoring and evaluation tool of the role of ICTs in national development - SCAN-ICT

• A strategy to enable various groups and sectors identify their ICT needs and devise the appropriate and corresponding applications.
• It is a step closer towards implementation on a micro-scale and because it focuses on a particular sector targets are manageable.
• It provides a framework for programme planning, project development and implementation at the level of a sector.

Village Information and Communications Infrastructure Strategies
What are the elements of a VICI strategy?

• Developed to decentralize the NICI process after the formulation of the national policy as a way of democratizing access under the AISI framework and philosophy.
• Introduced to give a chance to the majority of the African people living in the rural areas and that constitute approximately 60-70 per cent of the national populations to become actors and identify their ICT needs.

Regional Information and Communications Infrastructure Strategies
What are the elements of a RICI strategy?

• A facility for harmonizing national strategies at the sub-regional levels by Regional Economic Communities for consistency in regional economic integration goals in the area of ICTs
• Allows for harmonization of national regulatory frameworks as countries deregulate and liberalize their telecommunication markets.
• Provides a framework for the development of information and communication infrastructure that can facilitate regional economic integration goals of the African continent.
• Provides an impetus for strengthening capacity at the sub-regional level in ICT for development and building a critical mass to facilitate regional integration through ICTs.