Nevertheless, tourism is one of Belize’s main foreign exchange earners, joined by agriculture and services. Primary commodity exports include petroleum, citrus, sugar, and bananas. Despite the contribution of other sectors to the country’s GDP, experts suggest the economy is still largely uncompetitive with too high a dependence on tourism and too high a degree of taxation. Exacerbating these economic challenges are major barriers to business climate efficiency, which Belize will have to address in order to attract appropriate investment, expand exports, and bolster sustainable growth. Again, the role that high-quality ICT technologies and infrastructures might play in this regard cannot be underestimated. Finally, although Belize has the lowest population density in Central America, it is significant that about 16 percent of Belizeans live abroad while immigrants make up approximately 15 percent of the internal population. It is worth mentioning again that Belize is likely to succeed in exploiting the value of this sizeable Diaspora only with a creative set of ICT-related policies that draw on the tremendous potential of the new digital technologies and media frameworks to connect people, ideas, opportunities and financing. This is especially important when treating to the issue of equipping the country’s citizens to take advantage of the opportunities inherent in the digital information age and, more than that, unifying an increasingly diverse people into a cohesive nation. The fact that immigration from the Central American countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras accounts for an increasing share of the country’s population growth is quite notable when understood in the context of Belize’s steadily declining fertility rate. These new immigrants are changing the face of what is a former British colony, resulting in more native Spanish speakers than English or Creole speakers despite the fact that English is the country’s official language. Moreover, Central American immigrants are establishing new communities in rural areas, in stark contrast to the trend towards urbanisation seen in neighbouring countries. These demographic and developmental factors likely influence the level of adult literacy, which stands at 76.9 percent, as well as unemployment, which is approximately 19.5 percent. With almost 60 percent of the population 24 years of age or younger, 35 percent between the ages of 25 and 54, and eight percent aged 55 and over, any National E-Government Policy must treat to the challenges being posed by Belize’s changing ethnicity, culture, language, literacy, and age distribution. Indeed, Horizon 2030, the country’s national development vision and framework, has this to say about the challenges (pp. 4): “Across Belize, people feel that divisions along ethnic, religious, class, gender and political party lines have created a fragmented national identity, a lack of social cohesion and a weak sense of patriotism. Where political party affiliation becomes the primary factor determining access to public resources, stakeholders feel that this leads to the inefficient and ineffective use of these resources. Stakeholders spoke passionately of the need to create ‘One Belize–Un Belice’ where national identity encompasses inclusion, unity of purpose and ethnic and cultural diversity.” Clearly, Horizon 2030 embodies a set of core values that include recognition of the need to build one nation out of a diverse people. Other explicit vision statements drawn from stakeholders and contained in that 20-year national development framework, which are of relevance to this E-Government Policy, include the following (pp. 9):  “Belizeans are capable of using state of the art technology which they incorporate into productive enterprise.”  “The economy is competitive and public policy is well managed and supportive of entrepreneurs, small enterprise and private sector growth.”  “Belize has a well-balanced distribution of wealth and resources and modern infrastructure is supportive of economic growth.” 33