Foreword by Hon. Minister: Strategic planning is an essential effort through which the Ministry of ICT can establish directions and create strategic initiatives that mobilise limited resources to fulfill its mission, to achieve its goals, and to take maximum advantage of trends in the internal and external environment. Through strategic planning, we can take advantage of opportunities and deal with challenges. This Strategic Plan has been aligned with the Vision 2030, SWAPO Party Manifesto, National Development Plan (NDP) 5 and Harambee Prosperity Plan in an effort to accelerate the implementation of the high level goals and ensure that the strategic objectives are fully implemented Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are not only mere economic enablers, but have great potential to transform economies and should be seen as important economic drivers. World-wide, ICTs are known to have potential to contribute to accelerated Gross Domestic Products and increased labour productivity growth rates. This has been evidenced by numerous research results on the impact of ICT on macro, industry and micro-level. Namibia can certainly maximise on this reality. During the past three years, the Ministry managed to create an enabling legislative environment and undertook projects aimed at developing ICT infrastructure and services such as implementation of the Digital Terrestrial Television coverage; drafting and adopting the Universal Access and Service Policy; developing the Broadband Policy and its Strategic Implementation Plan; developing the Electronic Transaction and Cybercrime Bill; implementation of the Scan-ICT programme and operationalisation of the Scan –ICT portal to 1 Ministry of Information and Communication Technology STRATEGIC PLAN 2017 - 22