Tanzania: Minister - New Houses to Be Optic Cable Network Compliant
PLANS are underway to introduce guidelines for land developers to install facilities of the National Fibre Optic Cable Network while constructing houses in order to facilitate telecommunication and computer networking.
Minister for Science and Technology, Prof Makame Mbarawa, said in Dar es Salaam that the infrastructure, which is the National ICT Broadband Backbone, would boost usage of ICT applications for social and economic development.
"This will help members of the public to enjoy ICT services including e-learning, e-health and e-commerce anywhere," said the minister while opening Tanzania Homes Expo in the city.
Prof Mbarawa hailed the organizers, EAG Group Limited, as the annual event would help the public to get significant information on house construction. Mr Imani Kajula, who is the EAG Group Chief Executive Officer, said contrary to the past two years, turnout this year has been great, saying the number of pavilions had also increased from 25 to 70.
"We have helped to fill the vacuum of information on construction between house construction companies and its customers," he said.
Mr Kajula called upon the public to turn up in big numbers to get important information on house construction because the expo was an ideal platform for house construction companies and its customers.
Mr Suleiman Amour, whose Camel Oil Company took part in the event, said the expo had helped expose different building materials to the public, thus promoting business.
SAMSUN IMEZINDUA TV INAYOWEZA KUTAMBUA UWEPO WAKO
Tecknologia hii imerahisisha zaidi kupuguza Matumizi ya Rimoti. TV Hizi zinaweza kutambua kila uhachokifanya kwa wakati husika pia zina Kamera unaweza zipa amri bila kutumia Rimoti au Kibonyezo. Hii inaonyesha ni namna gani wenzetu wavyozidi piga Hatua za kiteknologia katika nchi zao.........
iPHONE 5S kUZINDULIWA RASM WIKI IJAYO
Kampuni ya Apple ambayo ndiyo watengenezaji wa simu za iPhone wametangaza tarehe 10 mwezi huu kuwa ndiyo siku ambayo wataitambulisha simu mpya ya iPhone 5s rasmi. Simu hii mpya ambayo pia itakuja na cover yenye rangi ya gold ikiongezeka kutoka kwenye rangi nyeusi na nyeupe ambazo zilikuwa ndiyo rangi pekee. Mitandao tofauti ya mambo ya digital imesema kwamba simu hii mpya kunauwezekano mkubwa wa kuja na uwezo wa kutambua fingerprint ya mtumiaji ambayo itatumika kama lock ya simu. Kitu kingine inasemekana siku hiyo pia itazinduliwa rasmi link ya watumiaji wa simu za iPhone ku-update operation system ya simu zao kuwa iOS7.
FACEBOOK YAPANGA KUWASAIDIA WATU MASIKINI WASIO MUDU GHARAMA ZA INTERNET
Mpango wa kuhakikisha internet inawafikia watu wengine bilioni 5 waliosalia duniani umeanzishwa na mwanzilishi wa Facebook , Mark Zuckerberg.
Mtandao huo wa kijamii umeungana na makampuni ya Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm na Samsung, na mengine kupunguza gharama za data.
Kundi hilo limesema linataka watu kwenye nchi zinazoendelea wawe sehemu ya jumuiya ya internet. Zuckerberg alisema lengo ni kuwafikishia internet watu ambao hawawezi kumudu gharama za internet.
Mpaka sasa ni watu bilioni 2.7 tu ndo wenye uwezo wa kupata internet ambayo ni sawa na theluthi ya idadi ya watu duniani.
GPON fibre technology for Dar es Salaam
Tanzanian ICT company SimbaNET has deployed its Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) fibre technology with greater bandwidth, to improve speed and reliability on its network.
6th South African Innovation Summit Live Stream in Dar es Salaam
6th South African Innovation Summit will take place on August 28-29 (Wed-Thu) at KINU, co-organized by Kinu, TANZICT and Buni. We will the follow renowned speakers presenting in Johannesburg via video stream, and carry out some sessions and discussions locally with Tanzanian themes and insights.
Mobile Monday Today @ KINU Hub
Join
MoMoDar Mobile Monday Dar event. This
month we are going to discuss about the uses of ICT in education sector.
Speakers will include:1. Emanuel Feruzi: Lecture at IFM & EASTC
2. Faith Shimba: E-Learning specialist at COSTECH.
3. Joel S Mtebe: Lecture at UDSM & PhD Candidate at TUT
4. Loyola Students: Projects demonstration
The event will be held at the KINU space starting from 18:00 to 20:00.
Registration is required as seats are limited, so reserve yours quickly at
Tanzania: Govt to Tighten Screws On ICT Abusers
THE government has warned that stern measures will be taken against people who use mobile phones and other types of social media
to incite conflicts and go against the country's customs and norms.
The Minister for Communications, Science and Technology,
Prof
Makame Mbarawa, said in Dar es Salaam over the weekend that the
government has decided to take action because the abuse has been
alarming.
"Strict measures will be taken against all individuals or
companies who will abuse the government and its leaders; religious,
political leaders and individuals," he said.
He added that such measures will be directed towards people
showing pornographic pictures, child defilement and giving out
information that seek to disturb the country's peace and tranquility.
"It is just few people who misuse mobile phones, email and
other social media channelsÉ the law will catch up with this group
wanting to destroy our nation," he said. The minister noted that
despite the fact that technology has helped bring about development
in recent years in the country; there are few people who use ICT
negatively and that the government will not sit aside watching as
things go awry.
Prof Mbarawa said there were reports of people using ICT to
accomplish evil things such as banditry, rape, drugs, prostitution
and releasing private information without concert of people involved.
"We will not tolerate thisÉ we will work with other government
agencies to stop this for the good of our country," he said.
Also, he said that any agent or a telephone company which will
sell a sim card to any person without a recognized identity card will
be liable. He said that it is a crime for a person to provide wrong
information during sim card registration and that the government will
switch off all unregistered sim cards as required by law.
Zantel gets new CEO
Zantel
Tanzania, has announced the appointment of Mr. Pratap Ghose as their
new Chief Executive Officer filling the position which previously
used to be owned by Mr. Ali Bin Jarsh, who led the company for two
years.
Mr.
Pratap used to work with Etisalat as the group Vice President,
handling Etisalat activities in the African Region.With over 18 years
of experience in Business Optimization and finance he is considered
to be the wright person to fill the gap. Also at some point of time
he used to work as Chief Financial Officer for Millicom's
International (Tigo) in Tanzania
Microsoft uses TV whitespaces to take broadband to Tanzanian universities
TV whitespaces are playing an
increasingly important role when it comes to providing broadband to
emerging market countries. The latest project to use the technology sees
Microsoft partner up with the Tanzania Commission for Science and
Technology (COSTECH) and UhuruOne to provide wireless broadband access
to university students and faculty in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
TV white spaces technology provides wireless broadband by tapping into
unused portions of wireless spectrum in the frequency bands generally
used for television. Although Africa has the highest growth rates in the
world for mobile broadband penetration, wireless broadband services
remain largely unaffordable throughout the region.
According to Microsoft, this pilot looks to improve that situation by
focusing on broadband access in the area of education, “an effort that
will increase digital literacy, teach technical skills, advance
e-learning and ultimately promote economic growth”.
The pilot’s initial deployment in Dar es Salaam will target the
University of Dar es Salaam, among others. “We anticipate that tens of
thousands of Tanzanian students and faculty members will be able to take
advantage of the wireless broadband packages offered by UhuruOne
through the project,” said Dr. Hassan Mshinda, director general,
COSTECH.
These packages, says Microsoft, will include a Windows 8 laptop or
tablet, wireless broadband connectivity, and applications and services.
Its partners are reportedly working with banks to offer small loans to
cover the cost of the packages.
Vodacom Tanzania reports five million M-PESA subs; transactions top USD823m
Vodacom Tanzania says that the number of people signed up to its mobile money transfer service M-PESA has broken the five million barrier, while total monthly transactions now stands at TSZ1.3 trillion (USD823.3 million). The figures compare favourably to 4.5 million subscribers and USD622 million in transactions when the carrier released its last M-PESA update in February this year.
The mobile operator recently announced investment of TZS250 billion in expanding and improving its networks across the country, and has now announced the signing of an agreement with a number of local financial institutions which is designed to spur e-commerce in Tanzania. According to the firm’s press release, Vodacom Tanzania has already signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Microfinance Bank (NMB),CRDB Bank, Standard Chatered Bank, Tanzania Postal Bank (TPB) Bank of Africa-Tanzania (BOA Tanzania), Akiba Commercial Bank (ACB) and AMANA Bank, that will allow its customers to use M-PESA services to access their bank accounts for financial transactions. Further, a tie-up with Diamond Trust Bank (DTB) enables M-PESA customers to withdraw money from their M-PESA accounts through DTB’s nationwide network of ATMs, giving customers 24/7 access to their cash.
Technological innovation for companies in Africa
By
the end of the last decade, and Begin of the new one we owe,the ICT
companies have been largely increasing in number in other parts of the
globe and specifically in Africa.Even though as the number
increasing,the problems are not going to stop as we always facing daily
challanges especially in innovation of the new technology which is the
mother of development.
It is said that most employers underutilize the creativity of their employee hence fail to capture their fertile ideas into their companies.The major reason for these can be;lack of time,absence of effective processes to manage all the ideas and the fear to demotivate the employees when ideas rejected.
Encouraging ideas is the core management task,as the curreant existing business demand great attention;stimulating the ideas is the core task in leadership,this also fascinate and endorse the organizational creativity unwillingly.
With fast changing market challanges,demand customers and smart competitors,we need new ways to innovate and raise the new challanges.Being more creative is our only way to become resilient in time of Change and Crissie will secure our sustainable success,therefore stimulating and harvesting creativity shall be our strategic priority.
It is said that most employers underutilize the creativity of their employee hence fail to capture their fertile ideas into their companies.The major reason for these can be;lack of time,absence of effective processes to manage all the ideas and the fear to demotivate the employees when ideas rejected.
Encouraging ideas is the core management task,as the curreant existing business demand great attention;stimulating the ideas is the core task in leadership,this also fascinate and endorse the organizational creativity unwillingly.
With fast changing market challanges,demand customers and smart competitors,we need new ways to innovate and raise the new challanges.Being more creative is our only way to become resilient in time of Change and Crissie will secure our sustainable success,therefore stimulating and harvesting creativity shall be our strategic priority.
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