However, we hope that current attempts to connect districts to the National Information Communications Technology Broadband Infrastructure will help unlock the full potential that lies in IT.When completed, this project will revolutionise the delivery of goods and services. It will provide an opportunity for the country to embrace e-education, e-agriculture, e-commerce, e-government and telemedicine, among others.
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Inspecting the progress of the construction of phase II of the National Information Communications Technology Broadband Backbone infrastructure (NICTBB) in Lind and Mtwara on Thursday, Prof Mbarawa said that fast, efficient and cheap data traffic through the broadband will facilitate the delivery of diverse services, such as e-education, telemedicine, e-agriculture, e-commerce, and e-governance to the remotest areas in the country.
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The services include e-procurement, payment of bills and taxes, licensing, downloading of government forms, online services, public information and business opportunities.
The Economic and Social Research Foundation through its Tanzania Knowledge Network (TAKNET) has introduced a topic for discussion to explore how the country can take advantage of emerging technologies to improve government service delivery and citizen’s engagement through e-government, mobile-government and the use of web 2 technologies like Twitter, Wikis, blogs and other social networks.
Prisons principal commissioner Augustine Nanyaro announced this when winding up a meeting for prison commissioners held in Dar es Salaam recently.
He said the application of ICT would help a great deal in improving and simplifying the supervision of inmates.
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“Financial crimes in our local banks are getting serious although I can’t quantify,” PCCB director-general Edward Hoseah said. “Indeed e-crimes have made the fighting of financial crimes more difficult, demanding high level technical skills and sophisticated equipment and software to tackle.”
But he told a forum on challenges in the auditing of public organisations in Dar es Salaam on Friday that the bureau was cooperating with other financial and security organs to curb the problem.