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| Joshua Nassari |
He insisted that the recent increase in the trends of cyber crimes in Tanzania does not only affect the citizens of Tanzania but also it threats the Nation security in general. He referred the situation by comparing the situation with the current situation in Europe were by the European countries have decided to take strong measures to encounter the situation by talking to the IT giants companies to increase security in their products and services.
Recent there have been number of reports on cyber crimes especially in Banks and Mobile transactions where people without knowledge or limited awareness on these technologies have been the targeted victims by the cyber criminals. Some sophisticated criminals have been stilling money from the Banks directly. 250 million were reported being stolen from Uchumi Commercial Bank through the ATM's in Moshi region has being reported by "Mwananchi" local news paper on Monday, 16 July 2012.
Mr. Nassari also insisted that the government must come up with the plan to monitor a all the companies which are being involved in the banking business as the current organs monitoring the businesses are not doing just enough and they are causing the company to lose billions of money.
He specifically urged the government to enact laws which will govern these institutions and organs which are involved in the banking industry so as to protect the interest of the nation. He targeted the mobile companies directly and saying that the government is not monitoring them in such away that they will protect the country from these loses.
Rwanda recently implemented new rules to their mobile phone operator. Rwanda Regional mobile operators were hit by the new regulations, these new mobile services operation regulations could see them increase the call tariffs to Rwanda. Rwanda has adopted the International Traffic Verification System (IGTVS) aiming at strengthening capacity to measure the quality of services provide by the network operators, managing all revenues by looking on revenue leakage and accurately audit the revenue gained from incoming calls to the country. Although there have been a lot of criticism the central government of Rwanda thinks the system will work better for the interest of the nation.