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In this issue, you will find:
Message from the Director General: P1
149,000,000/-Tshs Awarded to Ten Innovators:P 2
Internet Security Workshop launched at COSTECH: P3
Nanotechnology enables low cost water filter system: P4
Cyber related fraud costs TZ 10 Billion: P6
Cyber crime-ICT experts grapple with theft, online piracy: P7
Pacts Seeks Dars Science, Technological development: P9
Pictorial: P10
By
Theophil
Laurian
Pima
Meanwhile
COSTECH
Director
General Dr Hassan Mshinda said the
award ceremony is the second since
the commencement of TANZICT
project preceded by the first held in
By Sharifa Kalokola
On
20th October
2014,
The
Tanzanian Commission for Science
and Technology (COSTECH) in
collaboration with The Islamic
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization
(ISESCO),
the
Commission on Science and
Technology
for
Sustainable
Development
in
the
South
(COMSATS), the Inter Islamic
Network on Information Technology
(INIT) and the COMSATS Institute of
Information
Technology
(CIIT),
launched the internet security
workshop.
The five days international workshop
themed
Internet
Security:
Enhancing Information Exchange
Safeguards intends to provide a
forum
to
the
young
scientists/researchers, practitioners,
academicians,
system
administrators,
systems
programmers and students from
the developing countries to learn
about the latest advancements in
the field of internet security.
The workshop has brought together
participants from Uganda, Nigeria,
Senegal, Kenya, Pakistan and
Tanzania.
water
remains
challenge.
huge
By Theophil Pima
28TH October 2014, A one-day
thematic seminar on value chain
research has been conducted at
COSTECH Headquarters.
Giving the opening remarks
during that Seminar, COSTECH
Director General Dr Hassan
Mshinda said Thematic seminar
is very important as it brings
together researchers, politicians,
civil
servants,
development
practitioners and other relevant
stakeholders
to
discuss
important components of value
By Orton Kiishweko
TANZANIA has reportedly lost six
million US dollars (over 10bn/-) so
far through cyber-related fraud
crimes, that involve mostly card
skimming and Automated Teller
Machine (ATM) thefts.
researchers
from
developing
countries to learn about the latest
advancements in the field of
Internet security and promote the
use of state-of-the-art technologies,
among others.
By Hilda Mhagama
The Ministry of Communication,
Science and Technology has
signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with the
Indian government, on the
establishment of an Information
Communication Technology (ICT)
resource centre at Nelson
Mandela African Institute of
Science and Technology (NMAIST).
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Announcement
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