Minister of Communications, Science and Technology

The policy supersedes the Lesotho Telecommunications Policy of 1999, which has basically set up the appropriate institutional framework for policy formulation, regulation and operations in the Telecommunications sector. While one of the major goals of the 1999 policy was to encourage the deployment of ICT infrastructure in the country, this particular policy takes the mandate further to give direction as to how the proposed Information and Communications Technologies could be utilised to open up new opportunities, improve service delivery and hence ease the grip of poverty on the Basotho Nation