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| Kinu Co-creation Hub |
The construction
of the new submarine telecommunications cables starting 2009, paired with
investment in the national telecom backbone, has spurred a revolution in
Tanzania’s ICT that has seen the cost of connectivity dramatically dropping.
High speed internet access is more affordable and accessible today than any other time before.
This was said in Dar es Salaam at the weekend by Seacom Tanzania Limited managing director Anna Kahama-Rupia when explaining the challenges and development of the sector.
She said that the ITC now has a dramatic effect on education, entrepreneurship and social life in the country.
“SEACOM has decided to support other ICT innovation hubs throughout southern and east Africa with internet access because of its strong commitment to stimulating innovation, enterprise development and job creation within Africa’s ICT sector,”
She added that the skills, relationships, applications and new businesses developed within these ICT innovation hubs will go a long way in improving Africa’s technological efficiencies and address the challenge of creating new jobs for its growing youth population.
She also said her company made a generous commitment to provide KINU – a Tanzanian non-profit ICT innovation hub- with 30 MB of free internet capacity for a one-year period.
This will assist with improving the speed and quality of KINU’s internet connectivity, which will in turn improve the efficiency of the start-up ICT enterprises they develop, she said.
The hub is the first privately run open space for Tanzania’s tech community to foster co-creation, innovation and capacity building.
This collaborative space was established to build a community with a culture of co-creation, and to enable participation into the process of generating new solutions to social challenges, she said.
She added that the project is also supported by Google Inc. and the Indigo Trust.
Co-founder of the company, Luca Neghesti, said a collaborative space was needed to enable the community to participate in the co-creation process and make a joint effort to generate new solutions,’ says,.
According to him it was important to establish the environment needed to ensure that the next generation of African innovators has the freedom to build products and services which will reach out to the rest of the world.
KINU will be open to everyone in the Tanzanian technological ecosystem including coders, designers and entrepreneurs, he saud.
The organisation will provide a host of services and facilities including high-speed internet access, data storage and backup, knowledge centre, industry meet-ups and events, innovation competitions, ICT workshops, testing environments, webinars and application testing.
High speed internet access is more affordable and accessible today than any other time before.
This was said in Dar es Salaam at the weekend by Seacom Tanzania Limited managing director Anna Kahama-Rupia when explaining the challenges and development of the sector.
She said that the ITC now has a dramatic effect on education, entrepreneurship and social life in the country.
“SEACOM has decided to support other ICT innovation hubs throughout southern and east Africa with internet access because of its strong commitment to stimulating innovation, enterprise development and job creation within Africa’s ICT sector,”
She added that the skills, relationships, applications and new businesses developed within these ICT innovation hubs will go a long way in improving Africa’s technological efficiencies and address the challenge of creating new jobs for its growing youth population.
She also said her company made a generous commitment to provide KINU – a Tanzanian non-profit ICT innovation hub- with 30 MB of free internet capacity for a one-year period.
This will assist with improving the speed and quality of KINU’s internet connectivity, which will in turn improve the efficiency of the start-up ICT enterprises they develop, she said.
The hub is the first privately run open space for Tanzania’s tech community to foster co-creation, innovation and capacity building.
This collaborative space was established to build a community with a culture of co-creation, and to enable participation into the process of generating new solutions to social challenges, she said.
She added that the project is also supported by Google Inc. and the Indigo Trust.
Co-founder of the company, Luca Neghesti, said a collaborative space was needed to enable the community to participate in the co-creation process and make a joint effort to generate new solutions,’ says,.
According to him it was important to establish the environment needed to ensure that the next generation of African innovators has the freedom to build products and services which will reach out to the rest of the world.
KINU will be open to everyone in the Tanzanian technological ecosystem including coders, designers and entrepreneurs, he saud.
The organisation will provide a host of services and facilities including high-speed internet access, data storage and backup, knowledge centre, industry meet-ups and events, innovation competitions, ICT workshops, testing environments, webinars and application testing.
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GUARDIAN TANZANIA