VISION, POLICIES AND STRATEGIC PRIORITIES VISION The Cross-cutting “Digital Agenda of Albania 2015-2020” aims toward the more coordinated and efficient direction of investments in the sector of Informatin Technologies and Communications, with the emphasis of providing quality services for the citizens and the improvement of livelihood. These policies are harmonized with the sectorial strategy and they are also approximated with European Agenda 2020, as well as with the Regional Strategy SEE-2020. Vision A society based in knowledge and information, through the consolidation of digital infrastructure in the whole territory of the Republic of Albania; improvement of the quality of online public services and increase of governance transparency The major priorities of this strategy are: the improvement of national infrastructure of information and communication technology; the development of electronic governance and the establishment of a multi-purpose Cadaster. These are long-term priorities foreseen in the NSDI and extended in time for the 2015-2020 period. 16 1. Improvement of national infrastructure of the information and communication technologies, as the main pillar of a fast development of the information society and the growth of electronic readiness. - Increase of access with a high transmission speed, of at least 100 Mbps in 50% of families, and at least, 30 Mbps for the whole population; - Growth of population percentage that utilizes the Internet from 50 % at the end of 2013 to 90% by the end of 2020; - Number of businesses using ICT for e-commerce purposes should be at the rate of 50%; - All schools with access to broadband Internet; 2. Development of electronic governance and providing of interactive public services through the Internet for the citizens and businesses. - Delivery of interactive public services for individuals and businesses from 30% in 2013 to 50 % by the end of 2017; - Increase of electronic governance, ensuring a change of up to 10 places until 2020. (Growth of the electronic governance readiness index according to UNPAN12, from 0. 5046 at the end of 2013 to 0.7 by the end of 2017); United Nations Public Administration Network. 23