ii.
Establishment of a Commercial Court to resolve commercial disputes rapidly
iii.
Promulgation of the National Records and Archives Management Act
3. Privatisation
i.
The partial privatisation of TTCL
4. Government reforms
i.
Public service reform programme
ii.
Poverty alleviation reform programme
iii.
Parastatal sector reform programme
iv.
Telecommunications reform programme
v.
Legal sector reform programme
vi.
Financial sector reform programme
vii.
Local government reform programme
5. Government projects / programmes
i.
Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS)
ii.
Personnel Control and Information System (PCIS)
iii.
Establishment of national TV Tanzania (TVT)
iv.
Tanzania Global Development Learning Network
v.
Websites (e.g.: www.tanzania.go.tz, www.moct.go.tz, www.tcc.go.tz,
www.tzonline.or.tz, and www.tanzaniagateway.org)
vi.
National Payments System
6. New products, markets and services
i.
Removal of all taxes and duties on computers and peripherals
ii.
Four mobile operators: Celtel, Mobitel, Vodacom and Zantel
iii.
Banking sector ICT deployments. These include virtual private networks (VPNs) and
automated teller machines (ATMs)
iv.
Internet service providers are now 23
v.
Data service providers are now 16
vi.
Cyber cafés are reputed to be over 1000, more than any other sub-Saharan African
country
vii.
Rural community Telecentres are being established in many parts of the country
viii.
Internet points of presence (PoPs) in nearly all regional centres with a 95% digital
backbone and switching system
2.7 The ICT environment in Tanzania
Despite the rapid improvements Tanzania’s ICT environment is still somewhat challenged.
ICT is concentrated in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital with little deployment or
access in other urban centres or in rural Tanzania.
Currently very few educational institutions have computer laboratories and other multimedia facilities and these are more prevalent in private educational institutions than in
public ones. In any event facilities are insufficient to meet demand. In addition while there
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