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![[Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock]](../images/a/af_mcit.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 20 February 2025See also:
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Dari: وزارت
مخابرات و تکنالوژی معلوماتی, Pashto: د مخابراتو او معلوماتي ټکنالوجۍ وزارت)
(MCIT) is an organ of the government of Afghanistan.
The goal is Ministry
to establish a responsive administration to meet the needs of the people and the
modern era, using existing resources, endeavoring for larger goals, providing
balanced, affordable, and better-quality services, and expanding communications
and information technology services to remote areas, providing communication
services with regional and global standards, fostering digital Afghanistan,
transparency will be among key objectives and work programs for the future.
Website of the Ministry:
https://mcit.gov.af/en
The flag the Ministry is white with its
emblem placed in the center of the flag. Its borders are decorated with a blue
and yellow bordure with information wires on blue parts.
Images of flag:
https://mcit.gov.af/sites
https://mcit.gov.af/en/minister
Zoltan Horvath, 20 February 2025
![[Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock]](../images/a/af)mcit.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 20 February 2025
![[National Cybersecurity Strategy of Afghanistan]](../images/a/af_ncsa).gif)
image located by Esteban Rivera, 28 August 2021
NCSA is a government agency dependent on the Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology (MCIT).
In late 2001, after the establishment of
the interim government, Afghanistan stepped into new horizons of political and
socio-economic rehabilitation and reconstruction. The subsequent transitional
and the elected Afghan government introduced new legislations which assisted
private companies to make investments in the country and provide various
services including telecommunications and ICT services for the people of
Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
(MCIT) was the first among the sectoral government entities in Afghanistan to
design new strategies and policies, enabling the private sector to make huge
investments in the telecommunication and IT sectors.
In 2009, MCIT
established the first Cyber Emergency Response Team (CERT) in Afghanistan and it
was officially named as AFCERT. The mandate of AFCERT was to fight against cyber
threats and crimes and provide awareness and solutions on cyber security to the
government and private sector. In its first two years of operation, AFCERT
submitted an official report to the MCIT senior management regarding an upsurge
in the cyber and electronic crimes in the country. In order to fight the said
crimes, it was vital to conduct a risk assessment of all government ICT
infrastructures and come up with a solution to mitigate those risks.
AFCERT’s proposal on preparing a draft of Cyber Security Strategy for the
country was accepted by the MCIT and ICT Council and to this end the MCIT and
ICT Council established a committee.
In 2012 the first awareness workshop
on drafting the NCSA was held in ICTI Institute, supported and funded by the US
Department of Commerce. It was a 4 day workshop and all government CIOs, ICT
heads, private sector and academia participated and studied and analyzed various
strategies from different countries.
The NCSA committee was chaired by
Information Systems Security Directorate of MCIT and held its regular meetings
and assessments for one year. After a series of assessments and recommendations,
the NCSA committee finalized and submitted the first draft of the strategy in
July 2014 to the MCIT and ICT Council to review and adapt its action plan.
Source:
https://mcit.gov.af/sites/default/files/2018-12/National%20Cybersecurity%20Strategy%20of%20Afghanistan%20%28November2014%29.pdf
For the moment only the logo is known, although some speculation may
lead to the existence of an actual flag, including the logo.
Esteban
Rivera, 28 August 2021
