Bhutan e-Government Master Plan Telecommunications o The second mobile operator was granted licence in 2006; o Mobile subscribers has reached 77.8% (560,890 subscribers) as of Dec 2012: and o All 205 gewogs have access to mobile services and remaining 74 villages will be connected by mobile services by end of December 2013. e-Service Delivery In the area of e-Services, a Government-to-Citizen (G2C) initiative is underway to implement 135 e-Services. Capacity building The RGoB is currently working with the capacity building initiative, called Chiphen It 2015. is Government a comprehensive and Local professionals, teachers, communities. It also involves senior monks, Government on a five-year Rigpel, starting from May 2010 to Apr programme leaders, youths, Indian that and includes middle entrepreneurs equipping schools ICT level and with training managers, children computer for ICT in the rural laboratories, setting up of ICT training centres in the University, Vocational Institutes and youth centres as well as learning stations in Community Centres. Policy/Standards some ICT policies are already put in place, e.g. information sharing policy and policy to centralize all 350 ICT professionals in the Government to be under the DITT, but awaiting full implementation. The Telecom been formulated and is currently undergoing GNH Standards systems based and is now Windows, Linux, characters are communications standards. support available Apple also for Dzongkha OSX) now on and all in has computer most types in most supported protocols via the Unicode and Broadband Policy has screening tool. language main and ISO been developed operating of systems application. standard 10646 in ICT (MS Dzongkha internet and character encoding