centers in Benin and Ghana have become an may find a route to leaping forward and important instrument of empowerment of low- catching up. This will involve a great degree of income learning and understanding the impacts of ICT communities, enhancing employability, increasing capabilities, and on extending learning opportunities beyond those strategies, available in educational institutions. implications The world is in the midst of a revolution in which new and evolving digital ICTs are markets, organizations, innovation for as services, competitive well as the employment, education, regional and spatial development and poverty reduction. extending the horizon of what countries, Furthermore, companies, institutions and individuals might requires a country’s substantial investment in achieve if they work together to create rich human collaborative new technology, ability to raise awareness, build knowledge, ideas and innovations spring. By coalitions, clarify roles and responsibilities, ensuring the development of a solid national mobilize and complement market forces, as ICT strategy, many countries can position their well as scale up and leverage ICT. economies for competitive advantage in a ultimate focus of a national ICT strategy global knowledge-driven technology. Those should be to promote the diffusion of ICT who understand the process can direct their across the board as a General Purpose efforts towards learning the new practices and Technology. networks from Belize ICT National Strategy which a capital, successful active ICT strategy absorption of The 20