Ankit Fadia
most reputed Indian hacker of all time is among the people who were noted in
early stages of their carriers due to the school competitions and college
exhibitions. The culture of making brave people to compete for something is
what makes India especially Bangalore among the leading producers of most
influential people in the tech industry today. I don’t have to tell you the
founder of Hotmail Sabeer Bhatia was coming from the out scarce of Bangalore before he sold
his company for millions to Microsoft.
It is the
time our colleges and universities in Tanzania invest just more than what is
written in the curriculum. Funding innovative projects and allowing people to
compete in different fields in the tech industry will give us the opportunity
to find a valuable peace of metal inside the mixed iron core. In Tanzania there
is a lot of youth with ideas just waiting to be invented some of them they even
have models of their projects but where would they portray their skills.
We have dressing and singing competitions for colleges but where do we have a
place for tech geeks who want to show off their skills. I was expecting to hear
a large IT event prepared in Dar es Salaam where by all the colleges with
Computer science and Information technology faculties come together for
exhibition or some thought of creative competition to enhance the skills of our
student. I wonder why most of the students they hate coding in Tanzania it is
just because there isn’t enough motivation to choose development as their main
carrier.
I remember
when I was in my first year in India I had an opportunity to participate and
compete in a software exhibition competition at the Christ University believe
it was the best experience of my life. It was the time I learnt something
called “user experience” and for the first time I was challenged on my work.
From that day my dream was to be a developer and thank God I just achieved it.
There is a
lot of tech companies in Tanzania who can facilitate these kind of projects we
need the decision makers and the tech players on the top of their game to
exercise these kinds of events to give more opportunity to the youth in the
game to achieve something. To start with I give out a challenge some should
host “The inter-college software competition” were will bring together all
colleges and Universities in Tanzania practicing ICT in one place ready for
competition and to extract new innovative ideas from the smart minds.