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Telecentres

The concept of Community Telecentres is based on a simple realization that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is revolutionizing the way we live, work, learn, do business, deliver public services and indeed revolutionizing the way we do everything. The truth is that a country or a people who ignore this revolution do so at their peril. The Community Telecentre therefore is conceived to be a vehicle of bringing ICT to the people in order to leverage their own development.

CTC was formed in 1998 after a round table workshop organised by the International Institute for Communication and Development. The Tanzanian promoters from 1998 to date have been Professor Beda Mutagahywa, Mr Gilbert G. Alphonce, Mr Habib Mondosha (who is now deceased). They were assisted by their partners in development, IICD represented by Mr Nic Moens - the program manager and Mr S. Bisarara as a consultant to the project. Currently CTC provides access to Internet facilities and a horde of ICTs services to the people of Mwanza. It's Internet cafe was one of the first in Mwanza city and it became the pace setter in the burgeoning Internet industry. The Internet cafe is frequented by the young, the elderly and a multitude of segments of the local population. CTC has become an ICT bridge in Mwanza - reducing the digital divide that is ubiquitous throughout Tanzania and the rest of Africa

The project was thus operational in March 1988 and was officially launched in August 2000 by His Excellency, the Regional Commissioner of Mwanza Region Honorable Mr. S. Mashishanga. Present at the launching ceremony was the Director of the International Institute for Communication Development (IICD), Mr. J. J. W. Stienen, the Project Manager from IICD - Mr. Nic Moens, the Board of Directors of CTC, the project consultant and other invited guests.

Main Objectives of CTC

1. To create awareness among the population, especially within disadvantaged groups, of the ever - increasing use of ICT in various spheres of life.
2. To provide ICT training and equip the general public with skills in order to take part in the Information and Knowledge society.
3. To offer high capacity and high quality ICT services and facilities for public use in a sustainable way.
   In a nut shell CTC are centres where people without computers or other ICT equipment of their own will be able to have access to ICT services of the same quality as those available elsewhere in the developed world.

CTC Mission

Making Information and Communication Technologies (ICTsavailable to broad masses and raise awareness to the rural populationon in the use of ICTs for the betterment of their lives.

CTC Vision

To promote development through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). In five years time from the inception of the first pilot centre in the year 2000, CTC should have five Community Telecentres countrywide fully operational and self sustainable. Thus, by the end of year 2005 we hope to be able to have established rural telecentres, possibly making use of containers. Internet services, training services, phone/fax services, photocopying and secretarial services will be offered to the rural population.