COSTECH_Creating Futures -Driving ICT Agenda

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Raphael Mmasi (PhD)Director of Information and Documentation

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The Internet users distribution


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Hope for the future

VC toensurethat the

ideas

make it tomarket


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Telecoms and Internet:the cost of being connected

278%

191%

80%60%

1.20% 0.135%0%

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Sri Lanka

Monthly internet access

charge as a percent of

monthly average income

Sri Lanka

Nepal

Bangladesh

Bhutan

UnitedStates Denmark

Source: Human Development Report Office calculations based on data ITU 2000 and World Bank 2001


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Tanzania Commission for Science and TechnologyVirtualization of material products:myths and reality


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Capacity for TechnologyAssimilation

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Technology TransferPlayers

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Government R&D Institution/Academia

Business VenturesEntrepreneurs


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Interventions

Incubator program;Cluster program;Rhapta City Program; IT/BPO Skills enhancement

program.

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ICT Initiatives in thePipeline

COSTECH Driving ICTAgenda

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Ladder Towards Smart Village


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TANZICT11

Higher Learning

& ResearchInstitutions

Public SectorPrivate Sector

Non-Profit

Sector

Pre-IncubationResearchEntrepreneurial mindsetInventions

FrameworkPolicyMakingEnablingEnvironmentPublic

funding,research

CommunitiesGrass-rootprojectsSocialEntrepreneur

shipMicroloan

SMEs

CorporationVenturecapital, angelfundingCrowdingfunding


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100 acres of land has been securedfor Smart Village

Data Center is the fundamental

building block towards Smart village Multi-national Companies to

collaborate side-by-side with localSMEs

Cyber city gateway will assist in thecreation of an enabling andconducive cyber city environment tofacilitate electronic knowledge,

networking and innovation.

Smart Village


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Mckinsey has just presented businesscase to the partners

Intended to be zero emission It will be implemented via Public

Private Partnership (ppp) involving:COSTECH

SEACOM

Data Centre


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Proposed Strategies:

Developing IT/BPO Talentpool


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Infodev Grants:

Mobile Monday events every month

at COSTECH: Stimulate innovations and

creativity

Facilitate crowd funding for start-ups

Mobile Social Networking


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Supported by Infodev for two years: COSTECH is hosting as well as

contributing finance, space and

utilities for three years: Vodacom is committed to contribute for

three years Advisory Board with the member from

public, Academy, Private, FinancialInstitutions, Telecom.

Incubator Manager, Finance Manager havebeen recruited

4 SMEs incubated and 8 SMEs on virtual

Dar ICT BusinessIncubator


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-Sharing of Educational and ResearchResources

-Easy checking in Plagiarism withinlocal Unive and later globally

Shared e-resources, e-journals etc..

Utilisation of Super computers

- Quality of research currently journalsare local to the institutions! Let themgo International then we can patent


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Thanks to ICTscientific researchand innovation theoriginal networked

communicationbetween

universities thatallowed the birth ofthe

Internet isincreasinglycollaborativebetween

institutions and

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From 1995 97, scientists in the United Statescoauthored articles with scientists from 173other countries; scientists in Brazil with114, and in Kenya with 81

ICT collaborative research andinnovation

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Future

Thinking IT/ITES; Rhapta City; Co-creation and Living labs; MoMo; VC, Angel Funding, Crowding sourcing

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THANK YOUTHANK YOU

FOR YOUR ATTENTIONFOR YOUR ATTENTION

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