The minister for Communication, Science and Technology, Prof Makame Mbarawa, told employees of an IT firm at the weekend that little knowledge of the English language of the majority of the people was also a big challenge to the realisation of the full potentials of the sector.
Literacy rate in Tanzania is 69 per cent, and it falls at the rate of two per cent annually. The National Information Communications Technology Broadband Backbone infrastructure (NICTBB) will make internet and telecommunications cheaper and easier. It would enable farmers, for example, to easily get market information for their produce globally.
The 10,000 kilometres broadband network would also connect Tanzania with the eight neighbouring countries of Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi and Zambia, DRC and Mozambique.
“Language is still a barrier, however, if we can have some ICT modules translated into Kiswahili, it would be helpful,” he told the staff and management of Techno Brain Tanzania when he visited the company at the weekend.
To date about 19 regions and 57 districts have already been connected in the network. The plan is to connect 21 regions in the mainland.
Techno Brain provides IT technology and training among other services. The firm is currently undertaking a project that seeks to train fresh graduates in various managerial duties within the ICT sector for up to two years, according to the company’s Training manager Agnes Munisi. She said the firm would have trained 2,000 fresh graduates in six of its training centres in Africa by 2015.
The Corporate Business manager James Mungai noted that the firm has also worked with various government agencies that include National Social Security Fund, Tanzania Revenue Authority, and the Immigration Department during the development of various security features used by agencies.
“There is need for the Government to put in place a system of national disaster recovery that we can offer. If there are gaps in coming up with this, we can sit down as partners to see how we can fill these gap,” he said.
Techno Brain Limited is a Tanzanian registered company established in 1997. It won the 2O11 Microsoft partner of the year award.
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Quelle/Source: The Citizen Daily, 06.11.2011
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