Botswana National Cybersecurity Strategy (2020)

Summary

Botswana's first national strategy, developed with support from the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation under the vision "cybersecurity for all". It sets six strategic objectives: making the country more secure and resilient to attacks, building capacity and capability, raising public awareness, fostering research and development, strengthening national, regional and international cooperation, and harnessing cyberspace for socio-economic development. Among other things it provides for a national CIRT, an operations centre and digital forensics labs.

Information

Jurisdiction

Botswana

Issuing body

Ministry of Transport and Communications

Type

National cybersecurity strategy

Strategy form

Standalone strategy

Available languages

English

Topics

• Governance and coordination
• Incident management / CSIRT
• Public awareness
• Skills and training
• Diplomacy and international cooperation

Strategic objectives

• Establish incident response capability
• Strengthen training and education
• Raise user awareness
• Foster R&D
• Engage in international cooperation

Notes

Approved by the President in October 2020; the exact day is not given. The approved text is available in the ITU national strategies repository, as the government does not publish it on its own websites. The strategy has no end date and has not been replaced.

Ministry of Transport and Communications. (2020). Botswana National Cybersecurity Strategy. https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Cybersecurity/Documents/National_Strategies_Repository/approved%20botswana-national-cybersecurity-strategy.pdf

Ministry of Transport and Communications. "Botswana National Cybersecurity Strategy." October 2020. https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Cybersecurity/Documents/National_Strategies_Repository/approved%20botswana-national-cybersecurity-strategy.pdf.

@misc{bw_national_cybersecurity_strategy_2020,
  author       = {{Ministry of Transport and Communications}},
  title        = {{Botswana National Cybersecurity Strategy}},
  year         = {2020},
  url          = {https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Cybersecurity/Documents/National_Strategies_Repository/approved%20botswana-national-cybersecurity-strategy.pdf},
  urldate      = {2026-10-29}
}