“Digital Senegal 2025” strategy is a vision, linked to the Emergent Senegal Plan (PSE). “Senegal in 2025: digital for all and for use in everything, with a dynamic and innovative private sector within an efficient ecosystem”.Concerning the economy, the aim of the Digital Senegal 2025 strategy is to breathe new life into the sector by providing stakeholders with new growth drivers and sources, by raising the contribution of digital technologies to GDP by 10 per cent, and by creating 35 000 direct jobs by 2025. The cost of the 28 reforms and 69 projects, is about 2.5 billion Euros. The progress expected by 2025 is measured in terms of international rankings based on the following indices:• Under the World Economic Forum’s Network Readiness Index, the goal is to rank in 70th place worldwide, and 4th within Africa.• Under ITU’s ICT Development Index, the goal is to rank in 90th place worldwide, and 4th within Africa.Regarding its implementation, particular attention will be paid both to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and to cooperation.
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15 September 2016
31 December 2025
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
Senegal — Government
The African Development Bank The World Bank
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