This is contained in the country's National E-Government Strategy document, revealed yesterday at the opening of a two-day e-government strategy conference in Gaborone. The document states that costs for the year 2011-2012 are expected to run to P95 million.
In contrast, Joseph Tion, representative from a Singaporean E-government Leadership Institute said that his country, which implemented its e-government systems almost 30 years ago, has been using $3-5 billion every year for the last 30 years. The document described e-government as "access and delivery of government information and services using modern day ICT (Information and Communications Technology) - primarily the Internet, computers, landline telephones and mobile telephones." The Botswana e-government strategy will be implemented through five major programmes: the Portal Enhancement Programme (PEP), which will develop and strengthen the portal as the primary service delivery vehicle for government's services, the Multiple Access Programme (MAP) which will consolidate ongoing efforts to ensure an effective approach is introduced for providing government information and services through multiple channels.
