satisfying the 18 targets set out under the nutritional information and rural young eight Millennium Development Goals. The people targets set out by Horizon 2030 are also education online; clearly in line with this Strategy. In order • can Enhancing access Education a high – by school creating for this to be realized, many cross-cutting attractive multimedia based curricula and strategies across various sectors are pedagogy devised keeping in view ICT as a means education modalities; for improving the efficiency of planning, • and Enhancing developing efficient distance production and executing and monitoring of the projects business processes – by developing e- for that sector. This enabling approach commerce activities, particularly for Small occurs when ICT is diffused into masses at and Medium Enterprises and for Micro- all enterprises; levels enabling maximization of benefits and welfare. In Belize’s case the sectoral approach should be combined • delivery of public online, increasing revenue collection, and maximize benefits of economic growth in increasing efficiency though the shared the short term without trading-off the The ICT vision and strategy should focus the services – by putting more public services with the diffusion or enabler approach to sustainability of the same in longer run. Modernizing delivery of public services; • Reliability of data collected disseminated in all sectors for better on people and not just on technology. For planning – by promoting the creation of a this to happen, it is important to develop national both the ICT vision and strategy with statistical information management system promoting better people in mind and with the involvement sharing and validation of data being of these very same people. produced by governmental and civil Major outputs from utilizing both of the society above approaches include the following: internationally acceptable standards; • Increasing access – particularly to rural areas though, for example, the use of stationary and and mobile telecenters so that teachers in each • agencies according to Job creation in the ICT sector – by the creating at least 5,000 new jobs in the ICT industry through the creation of cyberparks and technology centers. village can enhance their educational This strategy has been developed through qualifications on-line, rural women can wide consultation with and participation of have ready access to health and the public and private sector, academia, civil Belize ICT National Strategy 5