ii. Establishment of a Commercial Court to resolve commercial disputes rapidly iii. Promulgation of the National Records and Archives Management Act 3. Privatisation i. The partial privatisation of TTCL 4. Government reforms i. Public service reform programme ii. Poverty alleviation reform programme iii. Parastatal sector reform programme iv. Telecommunications reform programme v. Legal sector reform programme vi. Financial sector reform programme vii. Local government reform programme 5. Government projects / programmes i. Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) ii. Personnel Control and Information System (PCIS) iii. Establishment of national TV Tanzania (TVT) iv. Tanzania Global Development Learning Network v. Websites (e.g.: www.tanzania.go.tz, www.moct.go.tz, www.tcc.go.tz, www.tzonline.or.tz, and www.tanzaniagateway.org) vi. National Payments System 6. New products, markets and services i. Removal of all taxes and duties on computers and peripherals ii. Four mobile operators: Celtel, Mobitel, Vodacom and Zantel iii. Banking sector ICT deployments. These include virtual private networks (VPNs) and automated teller machines (ATMs) iv. Internet service providers are now 23 v. Data service providers are now 16 vi. Cyber cafés are reputed to be over 1000, more than any other sub-Saharan African country vii. Rural community Telecentres are being established in many parts of the country viii. Internet points of presence (PoPs) in nearly all regional centres with a 95% digital backbone and switching system 2.7 The ICT environment in Tanzania Despite the rapid improvements Tanzania’s ICT environment is still somewhat challenged. ICT is concentrated in Dar es Salaam, the commercial capital with little deployment or access in other urban centres or in rural Tanzania. Currently very few educational institutions have computer laboratories and other multimedia facilities and these are more prevalent in private educational institutions than in public ones. In any event facilities are insufficient to meet demand. In addition while there Page 7