Tanzania's Journey toward a Regional ICT Giant

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INFORMATION and Communication Technology (ICT) is now taking a centre stage in many development endeavours around the world.
People's quality of life, as well as prospects for social change and economic welfare increasingly depends upon information and its exploitation. Tanzania under the Fourth Phase Government is fairing well in this area as Staff Whiter DEO MUSHI reports...
A FAMOUS expression that we are now living in a globalised world came about mainly due to easy and fast flow of information among people around the world due to the highly developed Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
Something happening almost anywhere in this planet of ours today could easily be viewed by the rest of people far away. Big events such as the bombings of America's Twin Towers; President Baraka Obama swearing in ceremony; the burial ceremony of the late Mwalimu Nyerere to mention but a few are still ripe in most people's minds thanks to the development of technology.
ICT is also now believed to be taking a centre stage in many development endeavours around the world. People's quality of life, as well as prospects for social change and economic development increasingly depends upon information and its exploitation.
It is no wonder therefore that nowadays society's living standards, patterns of work and leisure, the education system, and markets are all influenced by advances in information and knowledge. This has necessitated countries to strive and strengthen ICTs infrastructure so as to reap maximum benefits from what technology has to offer.
Tanzania is not lagging behind on endeavours to strengthen her ICT infrastructure and in fact the chance for the country to become a communication hub for East, Central and Southern Africa region is increasingly becoming a reality.
These struggles become real when looking at the country's efforts towards strengthening of the National Fibre Optic Cable network in and outside the country. Already, the National Fibre Optic Cable has been connected with undersea fibre optic cable systems of SEACOM and the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy).
Plans are underway to connect it with The East African Marine System (TEAMS). The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology, Dr Florens Turuka, says that the National Fibre Optic Cable is now connected to all regional headquarters in Tanzania Mainland and some district headquarters.
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