The Government of Maldives view positively the impact and the potential benefits of IT to a rapidly growing country like ours. Hence this Ministry is mandated with such issues as IT policy formulation, IT management, strategic IT planning, formulating IT standards and improving public sector service delivery through IT.

Ministry has compiled a Science and Technology Masterplan. The section dealing with IT in the Masterplan gives priority to issues such as formulating community-owned Telecentres, formulating a National IT policy along with strategies and an action plan, laying out the Government Network of Maldives (GNM) to connect all the public sector organisations in the capital, Male’, forming National Computer Centre as a support structure for GNM and to over-see the implementation of IT policy and define IT standards.