Briefly, the RISDP realigns the cooperation and integration priorities; articulates the policies and strategies; and, sets the overall targets of the processes for the different priority intervention areas. As you all know ICT is listed as one such critical  BIS Review 59/2007  1  area.
I therefore trust that this Conference will seek to prepare a RISDP Action Plan which will steer ICTs within the SADC region to higher levels. Equally important, I also expect that this initiative will assist central banks to harmonise their functions so that they can benefit from each others’ resources and knowledge.