Digital Tanzania Project

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The Digital Tanzania Project aims to assist the country to harness its digital potential - ensuring that all citizens and businesses have access to high quality, low cost connectivity, that public services are easily accessible online, and that the digital economy is driving growth, innovation and job creation. Across the globe, digital technologies are rapidly transforming the way people, businesses and governments communicate and access information and how they transact and deliver services. Tanzania has the opportunity to embrace this trend, taking proactive steps to ensure that its citizens, businesses and institutions are equipped to participate, innovate and flourish in an increasingly online, digital-first environment. This vision will require a long-term commitment to making the investments and policy reforms needed to increase connectivity, spur private sector ICT investment and innovation, develop a new generation of digital leaders and creatively using technology to improve the efficiency and impact of public services. The Project contributes to three core enablers of digital development: (i) Digital Ecosystem: strengthening the laws, policies, regulations, institutional and human capacity needed to promote ICT infrastructure investment, market competitiveness, digital engagement, job creation, and innovation; (ii) Digital Connectivity: ensuring access to affordable, high quality internet services for all citizens, including in rural areas, and for critical government institutions; and (iii) Digital Platforms and Services: building the technical capacity, skills, institutions, and local digital infrastructure for the Government to deliver services to citizens and conduct its own business digitally.