EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Information and Communications Technology (ICT), is increasingly transforming societies and enabling the growth of the global economy. The adoption of ICT within a country’s economy provides enormous benefits through improved efficiencies and effectiveness in service delivery, cost savings, improved productivity, transparency as well as accountability. Digital infrastructures are emerging as the backbone of a successful economy, a vibrant research community, a transparent state as well as a free society. Botswana is gradually leveraging ICTs in its critical areas such as communications, governance, utility provision, healthcare, financial and transport sectors. This has led to the emergence of possible threats and risks against the National Critical Information Infrastructure. The risks and threats must be mitigated against. Cybersecurity is now taking centre stage in ensuring that critical infrastructure is protected through continuous risk assessment, putting in place appropriate mitigations, creating appropriate collaborations, having in place relevant and effective cyber security capabilities, accompanied by cybersecuritry awareness. It’s for this purpose that Botswana developed a National Cybersecurity Strategy. The strategy addresses the current challenges within Botswana and proposes strategic action areas to improve our cybersecurity maturity. The objective of this strategy is to create a cohesive and inclusive approach to delivering a safe, secure and resilient cyberspace and a comprehensive framework to facilitate coordinated responses by Government, the private sector, and other partners to address issues of cyber security. The National Cybersecurity strategy is organised as follows: - Introduction section provides the background information, situational analysis in relation to the Cybersecurity and also provides the rationale and justification for the development of a National Cybersecurity Strategy. Section 2 contextualises issues of Cybersecurity in relation to Botswana in terms of the benefits, risks and threats arise in the cyberspace. The strategic goals and objectives are discussed in section three and the final section discusses the implementation, roles and responsibility, monitoring and evaluation issues. 7 | Page National Cybersecurity Strategy