Digital Tanzania Project boosted by World Bank financing, the World Bank says it has approved $150 million for a project to help increase access to high-quality broadband internet services in Tanzania. It’s one of a number of Tanzanian projects receiving World Bank financing that are aimed at improving not just connectivity but rural roads and the learning environment.
The World Bank says it has approved $150 million for a project to help increase access to high-quality broadband internet services in Tanzania. It’s one of a number of Tanzanian projects receiving World Bank financing that are aimed at improving not just connectivity but rural roads and the learning environment.
The Digital Tanzania Project (DTP), as the broadband initiative is known, will increase access to high-quality broadband internet services for government, businesses and citizens, and improve the government’s capacity to deliver digital public services. This will be achieved through a number of components.
The first is the digital ecosystem
The focus here will be on strengthening the laws, policies, regulations, institutional capacity, and human capacity needed to promote ICT infrastructure investment, market competitiveness, digital engagement, job creation, and innovation.
The second is digital connectivity
This component will aim to ensure access to affordable, high-quality internet services for all citizens, including in rural areas, and for critical government institutions
The third component is digital platforms and services
Here the focus will be on building the technical capacity, skills, institutions, and local digital infrastructure for the government to deliver services to citizens and conduct its own business digitally.
By VAUGHAN O’GRADY
