Brief Overview of Cape Verde Digital Strategy
Cape Verde's Digital Strategy (EDCV), being implemented and summarized below, is aligned with the
vision adopted in the Government Program for the IX Legislature (2016-2021), [1]:
"A connected Cape Verde, with itself and with the world, developed, inclusive, democratic, open
to the world, modern, safe, where full employment and full freedom prevail "
This overview is based on a set of driving factors:
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political stability, reliability and legal certainty of business activities
Participation in the CPLP (people Community) and ECOWAS (regional market)
Central position in the Atlantic, at the crossroads of sea and air routes
Integrated diaspora in four continents of the Atlantic shores
Traditional maker of bridges for the world
Growing tourist notoriety
Vibrant cultural diversity
Ambitious and eager-of-knowledge youth

There are also factors blocking this vision, which should be taken into account in an analysis of
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT).
The main instrument of the current government, the Economic Plan for Sustainable Development (PEDS)
proposes the establishment of a new model of economic growth based on the concept of "country
platform" capable of building in Cape Verde a 'circulating economy, "open to the world and fully
inserted in the World Economic System (WES) [2].
The EDCV reassesses the seven "action pillars" of the Strategic Plan for the Information Society (PESI)
approved in 2005 by the government of VIII Legislature and in the light of a broader and more updated
context, stablishes four strategic axis acting in line with the Cape Verde vision to build a Regional ICT
HUB in Cabo Verde [2]:
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Connectivity
Capacity
Marketplace
Governance

I. CONNECTIVITY
(Fernandes Antonio J - jan2019)

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