Botswana has come a long way from one of the poorest nations at independence
in 1966 to a middle income country. This phenomenal growth
has resulted in the country recording some of the most impressive figures
in most economic factors such as GDP per capita for 2006 of US$10
505 PPP, way ahead of most economies in Africa (see Table 3.1). However
to sustain this impressive performance requires that the country continues
trailblazing in newer sectors such as information and communications
technology (ICTs), where as shown in Table 3.1, it has not achieved
its goals, apart perhaps from access to mobile telephony