Our Vision

Offer ICT leadership by catalyzing policy changes and by supporting related developments aimed at enabling Tanzanians to participate effectively in the modern Internet-based global economy, benefiting their Nation and partners.
 

The eThink Tank intends to fulfill its vision via the following phased goals:

Phase I: To catalyze urgently the creation of a formal National ICT Organization (NICTO) with mandate from the Government of Tanzania as a partnership among the public, private and non-profit sectors.  This Forum can become the ICT focal point for Tanzania, by remaining in the public domain while bringing together diverse stakeholders to contribute to developing relevant ICT policy at national and international levels.

Phase II: To educate, support, and advise the NICTO in all its ICT activities at the national and international level for the benefit of Tanzanians, while assisting in the formation of working groups focused on ICT development.

Once created, the NICTO would be educated, supported, and advised by the eThink Tank (among other entities), and is intended to have the following main characteristics.

• Engage political leadership within the Government to give a mandate to the NICTO to deal with  ICT at the national and international levels, and to drive relevant policy changes.

• Represent a partnership of all key ICT stakeholders amongst the public sector, NGO sector, and private sector in the country.

• Be the national focal point for all matters involving ICTs in Tanzania, and act as a link with ICT focal points elsewhere.

• Safeguard Tanzania’s unique characteristics including its sovereignty, diversities, unity, culture, and social values in the globally networked world.  

• Maintain a view of global and regional strategic perspectives to assure cross-border alignment of significant ICT initiatives and interdependencies.

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