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  • TZ: ICT Investment Crucial to Improved Internet Services

    Attracting Information and Communication Technologies (ICT s) investment in developing countries is important in meeting increased demand for retail and corporate internet services.

    ICTs have the potential to help in the provision of quality services when it comes to education, health, commerce and public administration. Statistics show that in Tanzania, the sector is growing at between 15 and 20 per cent annually, which is the highest in the East African Community (EAC) Region.

  • TZ: ICT project launched to fight youth unemployment

    Statistics show that youth (ages 15-35) in Tanzania represent 58 percent of the number of job-seekers. Youth unemployment is generally higher in urban areas than the rural scene, though underemployment tends to be higher in rural areas.

    Unemployment rates are higher in urban than rural areas (16.5 percent and 7.5 percent respectively), excluding Dar es Salaam with a staggering unemployment rate of 31.5 percent.

    Youth unemployment in urban areas is 13.4 per cent compared to the national level of 11.7 percent. Women are more affected, with their unemployment rate put at 13 percent compared 10 percent for men.

  • TZ: ICT to improve poultry farming

    Poultry farmers in Kitunda area are anxious to embrace the internet and its infinite possibilities as well as adopting the use of other modern software programmes to access information on diseases, market prices, poultry selection, breeding, nutrition, refrigeration, preservation and most all other poultry farming related issues.

    Yessaya Mbwambo, Secretary of the Kitunda based group, Kiombo poultry keeping told The Guardian yesterday that they had recently received training from the Tanzania library Service Board on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) as well as the various applications of computers and potential benefits of the internet particularly in accessing vast amounts of information.

  • TZ: ICT Touted As Trade Link With Consumers

    Substantial investment in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in developing countries is cited as key instrument that can lead to real development and improve people's living conditions.

    ICT has huge potential in providing quality services in education, health, commerce and public administration. Statistics show that in tanzania the sector is growing at between 15 and 20 per cent annually which is the highest in the East African Community (EAC) region. It is argued that ICT is vital in protecting the interest of various stakeholders such as consumers, service providers and the government, who have now embraced e-learning, tele-medicine and ecommerce.

  • TZ: Implement ICT policy

    The ICT park to be established in Dar es Salaam is a welcome development, but one which is likely to be met with widespread scepticism.

    However, it is project whose initiators have high hopes. The Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (Costech) says the park will be the first “smart village” in East Africa. It is heartening news, indeed, but it’s still too early to celebrate.

  • TZ: Information and Communications Technology Potential in Education Little Tapped

    The effective use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in developing countries like Tanzania is crucial in order to overcome the challenges that are faced countrywide in many sectors, and to reduce the digital divide and improve the economy. ICT is becoming more and more integrated in societies worldwide. Its effects are clearly seen in people's lives as well as on the countries' economy as it opens doors for new opportunities. African governments need to seriously invest in the use of ICT for education, as the only way forward to become competitive globally.

    Secondary schools in Tanzania are facing many problems which hamper students' learning. This in turn affects their performance in the national examinations hence reducing the growth of a learned society.

  • TZ: Kagera Asked to Embrace ICT As a Development Accelerator

    Kagera Regional Commissioner (RC) Fabian Massawe, has urged residents in the region to utilise to the maximum information technology (IT), to hasten development.

    He stressed the need to invest in science and technology, urging the residents to motivate more students to learn science subjects, including giving incentives to those students who excel in science subjects.

  • TZ: Law, policy on ICT needed, says expert

    The government has been challenged to speed up the formulation of laws and the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Policy so as to protect the National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB), which lacks legal protection.

    The call was made in Dar es Salaam over the weekend by Consulting Engineer and Director of ICTs Eng Dr Zaipuna Yonah in a seminar with news editors on the progress of the National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB).

  • TZ: Let us use ICT better, and we'll do wonders

    Communication is chiefly what places humankind at the top of the food chain. Scientists believe it is the urge and ability to communicate better that has made the human race “rule the world”.

    It is therefore no surprise that one of the greatest achievements of modern-era development is improved communication which, with the advent of the telephone, marked the beginning of a technological revolution.

    With electronic transfer of information, the weapon known as communication has neared perfection. Indeed, advancement of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has brought the seemingly impossible right on to the palms of our hands and right at our fingertips.

  • TZ: Prevailing in ICT know-how, applicability vital, says Seif Iddi

    Tanzanians have been challenged to leave no stone unturned to be abreast with ICT knowledge compatible with requirements for speedy accuracy and efficiency to live up Mwalimu Nyerere’s metaphorical expression that Tanzanians “should run while others walk” to register speedy development.

    Zanzibar Second Vice President Ambassador Seif Ali Iddi made the challenge to that end at the inauguration of the Zanzibar first ever ICT Laboratory facilitated by the Open University of Tanzania (OUT) recently, being the 12th ICT laboratory under OUT auspices in the country.

  • TZ: Rural ICT a Boon for Farmers

    The proposed plan to connect rural areas with low cost communication will definitely spur economic growth at both household and national levels.

    So far, the government has set aside 48bn/- to finance the first phase of the project which is expected to benefit more than 1.6 million people in 152 wards across the country.The Universal Communication Access Fund (UCSAF) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Engineer Peter Ulanga, was quoted by the media over the weekend as saying that ground work such as scouting for a company that will provide the service has been done.

  • TZ: Teachers hail e-education through NICTBB

    With only a few days since the Minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Prof Makame Mbarawa, launched a programme to connect secondary schools to the National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB) across the country, teachers have expressed hope for better students' performance.

    Speaking separately at Kambangwa Secondary School, Dar es Salaam, the teachers said they believe the system will act as a catalyst towards better academic performance as well as offload teachers' heaving burden of teaching.

    Kambangwa Secondary School is the first institution in Tanzania to be connected with the NICTBB initiative which is powered by Vodacom Tanzania network. "We believe that this system will change the current teaching situation tremendously.

  • TZ: TTCL vows to enhance technology

    Tanzania Telecommunication Company Limited (TTCL) has vowed to increase its investment in technology with a view of making it the leader in communication services in the country and East Africa.

    Several government ministries, agencies and departments have been connected to the National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB), with the aim of achieving fast and sustainable development through e-government.

  • TZ: Using ICT to enhance government/client relationship

    E-government is the use of online services to deliver government information and services to citizens. Nowadays some government information is accessible online more than it was in the past.

    It is meant to engage the citizenry in governance and allows government transparency, as citizens are informed of what the government is doing and the policies being implemented to facilitate social development.

    E-government increases efficiency, improved services, better accessibility of public services and more transparency and accountability. E-government service managers need to be equipped with adequate skills and knowledge on how to develop services that will meet citizens’ expectations.

  • TZ: Why executives should know how to use computer

    We are today living in a very demanding and competitive world in which success will mainly depend on how much one is well acquainted with modern technologies.

    While in the past people relied on letter writing to communicate with relatives, friends or colleagues living far away, today it just takes a matter of few seconds to communicate with a person living thousands of kilometres away by just phoning, sending a text message, emailing or faxing.

  • TZ: Wide consultation vital in formulating new ICT policy

    Much was said and written on the occasion of marking the World Telecommunications and Information Society day a few weeks ago. Statements issued by the Minister of Communications, Science and Technology as well as the Director General General of Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) were very informative and gave us a reasonably good picture on what the government is doing to improve the communications sector, whose role in development is well known today.

    One of the important revelations made by the Minister is that the National ICT policy of 2003 is carefully being reviewed and the exercise will be completed by the end of this year. This point deserves public attention, given the fact that every citizen is affected by developments taking place in the communications sector, either positively or negatively.

  • TZ: Zanzibar: Shein - Growth of IT Should Mean Isles' Development

    Communication companies and parents should ensure that growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is for positive changes to the society and not a source of moral-decay, President Ali Mohamed Shein said on Saturday in Zanzibar.

    In his speech before launching the ZANTEL's 3G-high speed internet wireless broad band services in the Island, Dr Shein emphasized that growth of technology should mean development.

    "As we move from analogy to digital technology, use of mobile phones and internet should ease communication, search for information for students, share ideas and drive us to be innovative," said Shein. He said the history of telecommunication in Zanzibar, from 1880 when the wireless and cable were first installed in the islands is broad, "but Zanzibar is proud to be the first country in the region to have improved communication network."

  • U.K. Tech Chiefs Demand Revolution In IT Education

    British CIOs say schoolchildren need to learn programming as early as possible to get the U.K. back in the tech game.

    CIOs from some of Britain's biggest enterprises are demanding a complete overhaul of the way the nation's young people are introduced to technology at school.

    Their intervention highlights national concerns about both long-term industrial decline and the perceived need to instill real coding skills in schoolchildren as early as possible. While British kids are taught ICT (Information and Communications Technology) as a core part of the mandated syllabus (National Curriculum), they don't get much more practical exposure to the digital world beyond learning MS Office programs. Increasingly, it's become clear that Brits don't engage with enough of what makes tech work -- therefore becoming passive consumers of computers rather than creators.

  • U.S. Internet connection speeds massively inferior on global stage

    The United States may be a strong global player in many things -- obesity and pollution to name but two -- but it would appear that, despite its considerable technological presence on the world stage, the good old U. S. of A. is sadly lacking when it comes to Internet connectivity.

    More pointedly, a new “Speed Matters” study conducted by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) has revealed that Internet speeds in the U.S. leave the country trailing badly in the overall international standings.

  • UAE: Dubai eGovernment outlines plans to enhance move towards knowledge-based digital economy

    Dubai eGovernment has reiterated its commitment to contribute to the creation of a robust knowledge-based digital economy in Dubai through the provision of high quality e-services using innovative channels, at the ‘The Middle East Next Generation Mobility Summit’ being held at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai under the auspices of HE Sheikh Nahayan Bin Mabarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The two-day summit concluding on 14 November is being endorsed by Dubai eGovernment.

    Delivering the keynote address at the meeting, Salem Al Shair, eServices Director, Dubai eGovernment, said: “Dubai government was among the earliest regional governments to respond to the rapid developments taking place in the information and communication technologies domain, with a major emphasis on electronic governance. Today, citizens, residents and visitors in Dubai and the UAE are able to efficiently manage their business and conduct transactions while on the move, benefiting from the advanced ICT infrastructure that provides content and applications that can be accessed on the web, mobiles and PDAs.”

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