MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS generate quality employment; 2) combat poverty and reduction of inequality and 3) an open, transparent, efficient government, in frontal assault against corruption. In this plan telecommunications are regarded as a basic service to combat poverty and develops a strategic sectorial proposal for the Science, Technology and Telecommunications proposal establishing “…the development of projects stipulating the regulation through legal instruments and rules to potentiate performance, promoting the interaction of different actors, creating a physical space, to produce and multiply people’s scientific technological capacities”10. This Plan underscores the importance of Cybersecurity with a Program to enhance the Electronic Government. 3.2.3 National Development Telecommunications Plan 2015-2021 “Costa Rica: a connected society” This plan intends to put into practice the projects of universal access and service and solidarity, besides facilitating the increase of quality telecommunications services at commercial and residential level offered to the public, including the expansion of affordable and innovative services offered. The plan is articulated as three large pillars, namely: Digital Inclusion, Electronic and Transparent Government and Digital Economy. Its highest aspiration is: “Transform Costa Rica into a connected society, based on an inclusive approach to the access, use and appropriation of the information and communications technologies, safely, responsibly, and productively”11. The abovementioned subjects are drawn along three great aspirations: 1. Consolidate projects of universal access, universal service and solidarity of Telecommunications/ICT. 2. Create an enabling environment allowing the innovation o f sound and television broadcasting towards its digitization. 3. Build the bases of the Digital Cities Model, jointly, with an imminent Electronic Government. 10 Ministerio de Planificación y Política Económica (MIDEPLAN). (2013). Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2014-2018 “Alberto Cañas Escalante”. San José: MIDEPLAN. p. 438. Recovered August 17th of 2016 f r o m , http://documentos.mideplan.go.cr/alfresco/d/d/workspace/SpacesStore/cd1da1b4-868b-4f6f-bdf8b2dee0525b76/PND%202015-2018%20Alberto%20Ca%C3%B1as%20Escalante%20WEB.pdf 11 Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología y Telecomunicaciones. (2015). Plan Nacional de Desarrollo de las Telecomunicaciones 2015-2021. Recovered August 17th of 2016 from, https://www.micit.go.cr/images/Telecomunicaciones/pndt/PNDT-2015-2021.pdf - 19 www.micitt.go.cr