TANZANIA TELECENTRE NETWORK TTN

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IST-AFRICA CONFERENCE EXHIBITIONS 2009
ICT e-Governance 4RD The case of Telecentres
6th-8th May, 2009 in Kampala - Uganda By Felician
B.Ncheye Manager Sengerema MCT
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OUTLINE

• Tanzania Profile in brief
• Why ICTs
• About Telecentres in Tanzania
• The Role of Telecentres
• Experience
• The wayforward
• Conclusion

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1.0 Tanzania in Brief

• DATA
• Population37 million, 30 living in urban, 70
  in rural
• Size 945,000 sq. kms
• Teledensity 18.3/100
• Per capita income365
• Climate varies from tropical along coast to
  template highlands
• Terrainplains along coast, central plateau,
  highlands in north south

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Location

• TANZANIA
• Share boarders with 8 countries Kenya, Uganda,
  DRC-Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda and
  Burundi

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2.0 Why ICTs

• Knowledge is the most important factor in the
  success process
• Knowledge provides understanding for one to make
  right or wrong decisions
• Decisions are the determinants of the success of
  any initiative.
• Knowledge is the function of information
• ICTs are the best tools in the information
  service delivery

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About Telecentres in TZ

• Sengerema Multipurpose Community Telecentre,
  started in 2001 to access affordable ICTs to
  rural settings and model for replication to other
  rural areas.
• Tanzania Telecentre Network, established 2007 to
  facilitate establishment and developmen of
  telecentres
• There are 23 recorded so far

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ACTIVITIES

• Computer training
• Internet services café and sharing
• Community Radio
• Secretarial bureau
• Community mobilization and sensitization
• IT-Consultancy

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e- Governance Activities

• Training Computer applications to government
  institution staff and individuals
• Providing Internet to the government Local
  government (SDC) and District Commissioner
• Providing Internet to The Teachers Resource
  Centre
• Implementing a Wireless Mesh Network Project with
  the aim of providing Internet to all subdivisions
  of the local govt, Secondary Schools and Health
  Centres

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Sengerema Mesh Phase IGPS Recording of sites
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Sengerema WMN installations at TRC site October
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Sengerema WMN Phase I
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Sengerema WMN Phase II
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Sengerema WMN Phase III
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Experience

• Sengerema District Commissioners office
  appreciation for facilitated communications
• Sengerema District Local Council and District
  Executive Director deliberations easily
  communicated
• Improved efficiency of Sengerema District Council
  
• Increased community participation in development
  activities due to increased transparency
• Improved knowledge on e-government through
  distance learning

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The Pillars

• Integration of the powers that enabled human
  existence with human endowment
• Tanzania govt ICT Policy on e-Services
• Priorities
• 80 of the population
• Children
• Education and Communication systems
• Morals
• Identification and Development of local talents

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The Way Forward

• Improve computer training- advanced and community
  tailored
• Implement phase II III of WMN Project
• Embrace The UNECA-Knowledge Hub/Networks
  initiative to facilitate e-Governance
• Finalize DIT-Sengerema Telecentre mobile phone
  knowledge initiative
• Advise the govt, ICT institutions and experts on
  promotions and Awards on rural development.
• Developed a programme namely, The Last-Mile
  Knowledge (LMK) for community excellence -
  through right decisions

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Conclusion

• Telecentres have great potential in facilitating
  e-Governance initiatives.
• Suggest to IST-Africa and indeed participants of
  this conference to support the WMN Project, which
  is the pilot in East Africa for replication to
  other rural areas in Africa.
• Would appreciate your support in strategies on
  the implementation of the new dynamism-The
  Last-Mile-Knowledge(LMK), particularly on
  education system.