VII. INFORMATION SECURITY

40. Information security means the situation where conditions are ensured for the Government to assess objectively the country’s actual internal and external situation and make correct decisions, for government organs and the people to have the necessary information for the exercise of their powers and rights provided by the Constitution and for the dissemination abroad of information about Mongolia .

Freedom of information constitutes an important means for the development and strengthening of democracy.

41. External factors which may adversely affect the endurance of information security are:

1/1. Dissemination of false information by outside sources that may sow doubts about Mongolia's independence and territorial integrity in other countries, lead to interference in its internal affairs by any State or sow distrust between ethnic groups in Mongolia, and lead to disputes and conflicts as well as to internal instability;

2. Dependence upon one country or a group of countries in the field of information.

42. Internal factors which may adversely affect the endurance of information security are:

1. Use of the mass media by any force as an instrument to increase tension in the country, settle a personal score or damage others' reputation;

2. Curtailment of the right to seek, receive and impart information;
3.Disclosure of state secrets related to ensuring national security and defense as well as public law and order;

4.Curtailment of the rights of citizens and institutions calumniated in the mass media to protect themselves through the mass media or courts of justice;

5.Causing damage to others by supplying incomplete or false information;

6. Failure to keep abreast of the course of events or of scientific and technological developments as a result of the breach of information freedom or lack of access to information.

43. Ways and means to ensure information security: Mongolia shall:

1. have a multi-source information database on external and domestic situations;

2. safeguard mass media agencies and means against becoming subservient to foreign organizations or citizens;

3. create the legal basis for the dissemination of true and objective news and information by the mass media

4. establish a national structure and legal safeguards for the protection of computerized information;

5. join international information networks and carry out efficient dissemination of true and objective information on Mongolia ;

6. have the mass media serve the cause of developing and strengthening democracy and pluralism, and disallow deliberate distortion and abuses of truth and objective reality;

7. guard against informational intrusion detrimental to Mongolia 's independence, culture and way of life customs and traditions;

8. have the mass media and other information sources create an information environment conducive to national security through the dissemination of authentic information and communications on security matters.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 19 March 2008 )