According to the Seacom Head of Sales for East Africa Region, M Julius Opio, following the recent development in construction of Information Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure, plans were underway to link colleges and universities on one educational network.
“Once the National ICT Broadband Backbone is completed, the local universities will be connected to other universities and exchange contents at lower cost than the current prices,” said Mr Opio.He said after joining the network, then there will be no need for students to travel to other countries or continents for exchange programmes as the foreign contents will be accessed locally.
He was speaking during the second day of the Commonwealth Telecommunication Organisation (CTO)’s three-day annual forum that was held recently in Dar es Salaam.The Director General of Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology, Dr Hassan Mshinda said the first phase of the arrangement to connect local universities with others in the US and UK has started and that the University of Dar es Salaam is among the institutions to be covered.
The government is undertaking the construction of the national ICT backbone through China International Telecommunication Construction Corporation and it is expected to cover 10,000 kilometres once finished.With availability of the infrastructure, the country will have no excuse to exploit the ICT potentials in nearly all socio-economic and political areas.
Of late Internet has become not a luxurious service but rather part and parcel to many developing countries.However analysts question on how Tanzania, the country that aspires to be an ICT hub in the region, has prepared its people on tapping all potentials in provision of various digital services including e-government, e-business, e-health, e-tourism and others.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Alawi Masare
Quelle/Source: The Citizen Daily, 29.08.2011
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