DAR ES SALAAM: TANZANIA is establishing a Centre for Innovations in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to accelerate the country’s digital transformation.
Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) Director General, Dr Jabiri Bakari said this week that the centre was among the measures to close gaps in digital innovations. He explained that the centre will accelerate local innovations and entrepreneurship, which are key to building Tanzania’s digital economy.
Dr Bakari made the remarks in Valletta, the capital city of Malta, where he is participating in meetings organised by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
The meetings include the Innovations Board, of which he is a member and the Global Innovation Forum (GIF). He said the centre, facilitated by ITU, is expected to accelerate the uptake of entrepreneurship driven by digital innovation. It will be managed by the Tanzania ICT Commission.
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The GIF will discuss digital innovation trends. ITU explains that collaboration and synergies that push digital innovations add value across sectors.
This leads to a competitive digital economy. Tanzania, through TCRA, implements a programme to promote innovations.
TCRA assigns, without charges and temporarily, communications resources such as numbers and radio frequencies to entrepreneurs to test their projects. Tanzania’s other representatives at the GIF are the Director General of the ICT Commission, Dr Nkundwe Mwasaga and TCRA Director of Industry Affairs, Eng Mwesigwa Felician.
Others are Mr Ezra Mmakasa of TCRA and Dr Florence Rashid of the University of Dodoma. Forum participants will discuss strengthening the countries’ innovation capabilities and leveraging global and regional partnerships.
This includes enhancing collaboration and synergies between academia, government, private sector, financiers, startups and civil society.
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