Midterm presentation

Rural ICT development in Tanzania

Contents

oOverall objective of the ICTanzania project

oIntroducing Tanzania

oDeliverables and progress:oLong term programme

oVoIP demo

oQuestions and answers

ICTanzania Project

oOverall Objective To address issues of ICT

accessibility/penetration and affordability to rural areas and formulate phase based strategies for Public sector to create friendly environment by

formulating policy to promote ICT and build National ICT infrastructure backbone.

Private sector to exploit the infrastructure to offer broad spectrum of ICT services to rural areas

oProject OrganizationoTeamoSteering Committee

Introduction

oTanzaniaoLocated in East Africa

oUnification of Zanzibar Island and Tanganyika mainland

oPopulation of 35 Millions

o80 % lives in rural areas

o50% lives below poverty line

Introduction continued

oTanzania ICT initiatives oFormulation of ICT Policy 2003

oIntroduce free market practice in ICT field

oIntegrate ICT as an instrument in National Poverty Reduction Policy

oNumber of projects going on in Health sectorEducational sectorGovernance etc

oExisting Networks and ICT operatorsoTTCL has about 30 POPs in 15 regions

o4 GSM operators

o23 Internet service providers

oAll these operators cover mainly urban areas

oThe rural areas lack: communications infrastructure sustainable business models for provision of

access networks

Introduction continued

First Deliverable:Long Term Programme

oA document that contains approaches and strategies to enable ICT accessibility to majority of rural Tanzania byoIdentifying current and future ICT users and their needs

oInvestigating existing and emerging technical solutions

oFinding suitable business models for provision of rural ICT

oDescribing the role of the private and public sectors, as well as donors and other potential financiers

oDefining projects that could help enable rural ICT

Long Term Programme

Second Deliverable: VoIP Demo

oVoice service is:o Mandatory part of social networkso Underserved in rural areas

oVoIP is matured enough

oAdditional reason for IP broadband!

oNew service model for SMBs

oVoice monopoly ended 25 days ago!

Technical solutionJUASUN

DIT

COSTECH

PSTN

GSM2

GSM1

WAN

PSTN

SIP Server

PSTN Gateway

Phone in Kilosa

Phone in Kasulu

Phone in Ifakara Phone in

Zanzibar

PC+WebCam

PRI Line

ATA

ATA

ATA

ATA

GSM Gateway

SIP Server

Asterisk/SIP Server

Technical solution cont….

oThree SIP switched networksoCOSTECH

oDIT

oJUASUN

oCommercial gateway

oAsterisk gateway

oGSM<->VoIP gateway

oTerminals targeting different user groups

Tanzania VoIP coverage

Musoma

Babati

Kiteto

Simanjiro

SengeremaSingida

Ngara

Kasulu

Kilosa

Dar es Salaam

Zanzibar

Pemba

Lindi

Ifakara

Workshops

oWorkshop for tech-usersoMiddle of April

oVoIP technology

oEnd-Phone usage

oWorkshop for executives and policy makersoMay the 6th

oVoIP impact/benefit for ICT

oPolicy and regulation issues

Project statusoRequirement study – Done!

oTechnology study – Done!

oSolution design – Done!

oProcurement – In Progress, orders placed!

oSystem setup – middle of April

oEnd-Terminal setup – second part of April

oShowtime! – May the 6th

Questions and Answers

The End

Thanks for your attention !!!

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