The East African Community is
booming currently, people from different industries are exploiting the
opportunity created by the union. We expect people from the ICT industry to do the
same thing, since it is an opportunity to target larger audience with your idea
or product. The challenges are from everywhere while Nairobi just recent was
hosting the event Pivot East Kigali
does the same with lot of innovative project aiming at bringing the town at the
status of East Africa IT hub. Quoted from the writer of white-African
blog he said that Pivot East is about
finding the tech startups with high-growth potential in the region and putting
them on stage in front of investors, media and businesses. It’s about finding
“what’s next” in East Africa’s vibrant mobile tech scene. Chances are, the best
of these startups are providing highly innovative and disruptive solutions. The
KINU projects for Tanzania startups
projects is the proof that the competition is everywhere and people are ready
to accept the challenge as the industry grows to its peak in the eastern part
of Africa.
It’s great to witness this
marvelous progress in the ICT industry in East Africa but the question remains
in the awareness of ICT professionals about the existence of these projects and
how to utilize the opportunity created by these startups programmes. Most of the ICT professionals
and entrepreneurs in Tanzania have not yet realize the importance of these
startups programmes and support provided by the business incubators created by the government
and donors to help them improve their projects.
TANZICT stands for The Information Society and ICT Sector
Development Project. It’s bilateral collaboration project between
the Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology of Tanzania (MCST) and
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. This project is there for us small ICT
entrepreneurs with our valuable ideas to go and exploit them with all the
resources around you. They are there to support us and until now they have done
a marvelous work in providing support whenever is needed. Incubators are there
but they won’t have a meaning if they are not fulfilling the purpose of their
existence. It is up to us to go there with our ideas and meet the responsible
people who will help us by supporting our ideas and help us reach our goals. To
read more details about TanzICT read here…
We should be ready to face the
challenges and compete with the rate of changes in the technology trends by
becoming more innovative and cultivating deeper into the ideas we current have.
Having the idea is one thing and being able to implement the idea is another
thing. These projects help you to be able to implement your ideas and bring
them into life. The KINU hub have already hosted two events to bring technology
enthusiast together including the Google+ APIs
hackathon in Dar and African
News Innovation Challenge Brainstorming Session , we should be ready to
attend these types of events if we want to have a chance of meeting people who
share the same passion and interest as us about the ICT industry of Tanzania.
Each and every weekend these days
they have been an event in one of the two hubs the KINU innovation Hub and TanzICT
take your time to visit their sites and get a chance to participate in the
events hosted by these hubs, Take your time also to visit and read East African
ICT blogs for more details about funding and startups currently the Savannah
Funding is on. People are applying for the funds looking for an opportunity to
have a chance to develop their business. What are you waiting for this is your
dream chance of achieving your goals. Other important links and organization for startups and project funding: