Tanzania

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Chanjo - Campaign against corruption through music, mobiles and social media

Chanjo (“vaccination” in Swahili) is a campaign against corruption, selfishness and laziness through music, mobile phones and social media. It is an initiative to combat the problems that hinder development of most people in Tanzania. The project is focused around a music tour covering all zones of Tanzania combined with free distribution of music through Internet and mobile phones.
Summary of project objectives: 

  • Create awareness, educate and inspire Tanzanians to collectively tackle corruption, selfishness and laziness
  • Carry out the Chanjo campaign in all of Tanzania
  • Distribution of Chanjo music and material over the Internet and mobile phones
  • On-line platforms for debate and documentation
  • Make more people aware of the scope of the corruption crisis
  • Long term: to reduce corruption in society

Partners: 
Jua Arts Foundation for the Children
Contact person: 
Katja Sarajeva
Field of work: 
Democracy, education
Funding: 
SEK 500.000
Total cost: 
SEK 500.000
Project Duration: 
September, 2011 - August, 2012

ICT for public access to cultural resources

In Tanzania, for a very long time a few people have benefitted from the rich cultural resources the country possess.

Summary of project objectives: 
  1. By December 31, 2011 House of Culture shall have an equipped multi-media centre and the recording studio.
  2. By December 31, 2011 children, youth, cultural professionals/practitioners and visually impaired are familiar with ICT and multi-media technology and use it for communication, learning and cultural production.
  3. By December 31, 2012 the House of Culture shall be a preferred public space for debate, dialogue, sharing and accessing information on living cultures and cultural resources and production of cultural industries.
  4. By December 31, 2012 the Museum and House of Culture facilities known and accessible to a wider public.
  5. By June 30, 2012 Museum and House of Culture shall have developed an efficient and reliable open education resource centre.
Partners: 
National Museum of Tanzania and the House of Culture
Contact person: 
Katja Sarajeva
Field of work: 
Education
Funding: 
SEK 500.000
Total cost: 
SEK 898.658
Project Duration: 
August, 2011 - January, 2013

SMS for Human Rights

The project proposes to develop an SMS system for submitting and tracking complaints on abuses of human rights and good governance. The system will be piloted in two districts within the regions Mwanza, Iringa and Lindi. The pilot will be carried out with the participation of a selected number of NGOs, students and teachers.

Summary of project objectives: 

To develop and implement a short messaging system (SMS) features to an existing Complaint Handling System to allow the citizen to instantly report violations of human rights and contravention of good governance principles to the Commission of Human Rights and Good Governance.

Partners: 
Comission for Human Rights and Good Governance
Contact person: 
Katja Sarajeva
Field of work: 
ICT, human rights, democracy
Funding: 
SEK 500.000
Total cost: 
SEK 998.909
Project Duration: 
July, 2011 - December, 2012

Improving Reproductive and Child health services through ICT

The project proposes to develop a hybrid (web/mobile) system that would enable the recording and tracking reproductive and child health information, facilitating antenatal and postnatal care and better communication between various health service providers in the Rufiji District in the Coastal Region.

Summary of project objectives: 

To improve the assess to health data on pregnant mothers and the children under the age of five for effective monitoring and decision making at the level of local health care facilities. Also to deliver first line support through tele-maternal care services to improve the access to health care facilities for pregnant mothers and children under the age of five and to improve the education and communication between pregnant mothers (and mothers of children under the age of five), community health workers, traditional birth attendants and facility health workers.

Partners: 
Invention and Technological Ideas Development Organization (ITIDO)
Contact person: 
Katja Sarajeva
Field of work: 
e-health, mobile
Funding: 
SEK 500.000
Total cost: 
SEK 547.278
Project Duration: 
September, 2011 - October, 2012

Capacity Building on effective use and management of ICT in the public sector in Tanzania

Considerable advances have been achieved in the rollout of ICT-based public services in many government units. However, the experience and surveys show that there is inadequate contribution of ICT investment to the improvement of the organizational performance and public services delivery due to, among others, the lack of proper strategic planning, use and management of ICT. This is also due to the lack of ICT management programme in most of learning institutions in Tanzania. As a result the few experts trained abroad are absorbed by the private sector due to the high pay.

The main focus of this project is to equip the management with essential knowledge and skills not only for strategically aligning business logic and ICT infrastructure but also champion and managing integration of ICT with government objectives and strategies.

The project addresses the need to match public administrations capacity to make full use on the management level, of the Tanzanian government expansion of and commitment to e-governance in recent years. 

Summary of project objectives: 

The project purpose is to establish a sustainable capacity building training programme on effective use and management of ICT within the public sector. Specifically it will;

  • Create a standard curriculum and training materials for current and future training needs on ICT management.
  • Create awareness to increase level of understanding amongst IT and business management on the potential of ICT to transform the public services delivery process.
    Produce well trained management personnel on ICT management.
  • Equip and guide the public sector management to develop and use standard approaches to strategic management of ICT in the Public sector.
Partners: 
University of Dar es Salaam Computing Center, Tanzania
Life Academy, Sweden
Contact person: 
Daniel Berggren
Funding: 
SEK 3.100.000
Project Duration: 
January, 2009 - December, 2010

ICT-based in-service teacher education for secondary school teachers in Tanzania

Tanzania has embarked on enhancing the availability and quality of secondary education. Through an earlier Sida supported project, necessary data infrastructure has been installed at 32 government teacher’s training colleges with a purpose to quickly train a large number of teachers, mostly in-service and at distance through the utilization of ICT tools.

Summary of project objectives: 

The overall purpose of this project is to enhance the performance of the secondary teachers by
providing training on pedagogy and subject specialized education. The teachers will be
trained through ICT-based short courses which will be custom tailored to the needs of
teachers in particular subject areas.

The specific project objectives include:

  •  Equip teachers with basic ICT skills to be able to benefit from the potential of ICT in
    teaching and learning.
  • Develop models for communication and distribution of learning material for different
    technical environments (broadband, VSAT, mobile phones, CD/DVD, memory cards
    etc).
  • Support teachers to handle the challenges of using e-resources through knowledge
    sharing, networking and collaboration for improving teaching.
  • Promote equitable access to educational resources through the strategic application of
    ICT.
  • Exploit the interactive potential of ICT in the provision of modern education theory
    and practice via distance education programmes.
  • Create strategic partnerships for a sustainable ICT programme through collaboration
    with the public, private and community sectors.
  • Establish a school network system for the collaborative sharing of educational
    resources and stakeholder participation.
  • Encourage head teachers, teachers and students to be involved in the development of
    applications and to use ICT meaningfully to enhance the teaching-learning process.
  • Encourage and facilitate the use of the Internet as a research and communication tool
    among students, parents, teachers, principals, other MoEVT officials and members of
    the community.
Partners: 
Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, Tanzania
Open University, Tanzania
Mid Sweden University
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
For more information about m-learning visit: http://m-e-learning.blogspot.com/
Contact person: 
Daniel Berggren
Funding: 
SEK 2.700.000
Project Duration: 
April, 2008 - December, 2009

Digital Delivery. E-learning in Rural Secondary Schools in Tanzania

The proposed study concerns content and platform development for a rural e-learning project in Tanzania in cooperation with pCET at UDSM, Tanzania. The research project will focus on how platforms and content are developed and used by university staff and the target group in the rural areas chosen. We want to point towards the need for a deeper reflection over the technologies per se and what connotations they carry in a postcolonial context. Focus group interviews, analysis and process evaluation together with the researchers at UDSM and focus group interviews in the target group will be the methods applied. The project has the ambition to integrate the on-going technological development at UDSM with process evaluation and involvement of potential users of the systems. Feminist and postcolonial technoscience is the theoretical base.
Partners: 
Blekinge Institute of Technology
Contact person: 
Birgitta Rydhagen
Funding: 
SEK 350.000

Online Water Quality Monitoring

The project will develop and implement a self-sustained, low-cost
online water quality monitoring system, to spread awareness of the
results and to make a feasibility study on how to empower and stimulate
local entrepreneurs to establish businesses based on the system. The
system will be based on wireless sensor network technology.

Summary of project objectives: 

1. Develop a water quality monitoring system
2. Deploy and demonstrate it at selected sites in Malawi and Tanzania.
3. Spread awareness of the results by workshops and courses
4. Make a feasibility study on how to empower and stimulate local entrepreneurs to establish businesses based on the system

Partners: 
The Royal Institute of Technology
Malawi Polytechnic
Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology
Contact person: 
Iskra Popova
Field of work: 
Environmental research and management
Funding: 
SEK 750.000
Project Duration: 
September, 2007 - December, 2009

INFORM/ Tanzania Health

A thousand facilitators and end-users will be taught, in this ICT-in-health project in Tanzania, to utilize online resources and information about health problems.Swedish trainers will work with Tanzanian counterparts in running workshops, including in rural areas.INFORM provides on-site, topic-focused information training. In Tanzania, 20 institutions are involved, including the Ministry of Health, COSTECH, and DIT.
Summary of project objectives: 

The project will train a substantial core group of medical information trainers and provide them with mentroship and support while they train about 1000 medical information end-users (doctors and other health professionals in how to access online information resources. The objects are to promote development by encouraging changes in the local information culture, by helping to remove cultural and organizatonal hindrances blocking usage of online medical resources, and by assuring that a substantial number of medical professionals can competently access online information resources for application in research, clinical practice and policy formulation.

Partners: 
Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS)
INFORM/Tanzania
Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT)
Contact person: 
Martha J Garrett
Field of work: 
Medicine and Public Health
Funding: 
SEK 500.000
Project Duration: 
December, 2005 - December, 2007

Towards Sustainable Broadband Communication Markets in Rural Areas

This project involves technology transfer and broadband connectivity activities synchronized with national e-government, e-school and e-health programmes as well as policy research and impact assessment. The objectives for the project are 1). To outline a generic method for benchmarking between Sida-supported countries in the development of sustainable broadband communication markets in rural areas. Selected SADC countries Africa have been selected for this benchmarking exercise. 2) Refinement of a development strategy; KTH has developed a strategy for the establishment of sustainable broadband communication markets in close cooperation with the primary stakeholders in several developing countries in Africa and Asia. 3) Test of the strategy in selected concrete development projects in Africa.

Summary of project objectives: 

The objective is to:

  • Outline a generic method for benchmarking between Sida-supported developing countries in the development of sustainable broadband communication markets in rural areas
  • Refine and extend the KTH strategy for establishment of sustainable broadband communication markets in developing regions, both via theoretical studies and practical development projects
Partners: 
Sida
Royal Institute of Technology
Lund University
Tz-ICT4RD-programme partners
Karlstad University
Contact person: 
Björn Pehrson
Field of work: 
Multi-disciplinary Communication Systems, Economics, Information Systems
Funding: 
SEK 1.300.000
Total cost: 
SEK 4.000.000
Project Duration: 
January, 2006 - October, 2008