Strategy primer

Abstract

Abstract This chapter explains the theory and reality of the Digital Economy Kit’s final stage, the development of the strategy primer. It argues that outsider-led processes should not deliver recommendations, but rather should suggest priority actions or areas that can be properly debated and taken up into policy and strategy by the appropriate domestic process. Otherwise, this stage at best bypasses and at worst undermines domestic ownership and policy processes. This was a complex phase of the Kit which entailed boiling down an extensive enquiry into an implementable list and getting the balance right between incorporating pre-existing priorities and letting the Kit process determine them. The chapter then explains what was needed beyond a strategy primer for its actions to take root.