 I'm here with Dr. Alice Simba, the Acting Director of ICT with the Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology in Tanzania, and also with Professor Encoma, the Director-General of the Tanzanian Communications Regulatory Authority. Gentlemen, you're very welcome to join us here today in the World Telecommunication Development Conference. Thank you very much. May I start by asking you, Dr. Simba, how is the Ministry and the Regulatory Authority working together in Tanzania? Yeah, basically the Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology is divided into two major sub-sectors, that is, communication of what we call ICT and the science and technology. Now in terms of ICT, the Ministry is mandated to coordinate, formulate, develop and implement national ICT policies, guidelines, programs and other projects so as to enhance the use of ICT in improving national socioeconomic programs. Very good. So you're working in the whole ecosystem there. And Professor Encoma, from your perspective and the Regulatory Authority, how is it working? Well, as you know, at the present moment, the communication services are very important in any society. And the communication services providers are actually licensed by the regulatory body. So we license them and we also manage the resources like frequencies and numbers. Okay. And Dr. Simba, the Connector School Connector Community Project, the success of that is well known and well documented in Tanzania. Can you tell us a little bit about what the next steps will be? Thank you very much. I'm not sure if the time will allow, but maybe I should get back where it started. Basically it started in 2010 in Adobat where the ITU put the call for proposal from countries and Tanzania applied for the support and we got it. And now we have 49 schools, basically some are nursing schools, some are the secondary school and some are just one primary school. Now when we look into the project, we are very interested because in terms of course resources, you know, you have only two computers, but 12 kids can use it. So it is something that we are very much appreciated. And based on that fact, the government now is in the plan to implement other projects from other funds to increase the number of schools connected. In the near future, our plan is to have around 300 schools connected. But we have what we call Tanzania Beyond Tomorrow that is going to look heuristically on the issue of e-learning and we believe this will be part of that initiative. So you are really heading towards a future of fully connected schools throughout Tanzania? Correct. And Professor Enkomal, can you give us an example of the types of ICT applications that are being used currently in Tanzania? Right, there are quite a number of applications, but I'll pick two. One is the internet service provision where somebody actually gets internet through the mobile phone. And another one is financial services. I mean, the financial services in terms of making payments to other people, utility payments, for example, water, electricity, pay television, and checking with bank accounts, those are very popular applications. And from your perspective in the ministry, are there other applications that you see becoming really prevalent? Yeah, I think in the near future we are going to have a lot of applications. Basically, we are now finalizing the use of the government. The agency has been set and now we are in the preparatory mode where the citizen can start paying their taxes and everything using, or doing applications for passport and everything from the internet. But again, I understand a way of the e-learning strategy that is going to allow people now to use ICT as a means to get their services. And again, when you talk about e-education, there is a lot of initiative living along the school-connected community and now looking into content so that the student can be able to access this content from a single source and can be used in many other schools to cut costs and, of course, to have better materials. And Professor Encomma, can you tell us some of the key achievements and also what the future holds for the regulatory authority? Right. First of all, infrastructure development. We have a lot of wireless networks, but also now we have optical fiber networks, both terrestrial and submarine, learning Darius Lam. I think we have three cables learning there. And then services, either voice services or video services or data services. These are also growing very fast. And then applications, as I said earlier, mobile payments, internet service provision. And recently we had the digital broadcasting migration. It's also very important. Dr. Simba, may I conclude with the question to you about the broadband future of Tanzania? What are your hopes for the broadband future, which is, of course, our theme here at the WOTDC this week? Correct. And I think the theme came at a very right time because right now in the country, we're in the pose of developing the broadband strategy. Now, but when you look into the ground, because you understand the broadband is an ecosystem, we have a very well improved infrastructure that the professor mentioned. The fiber cable now goes about 7,000 kilometers. It goes to every region and our future in two, three years to make sure it goes to every district of the country. We are now also connecting the government. We have what we call government, where all the government institutions are going to be connected by the fiber. So the future reel is very bright. We have some challenges, of course, in the area of content. We need to do a lot of issue there and issue of contents. But investment is good because the government is working very closely with the private sector, where the private sector is not there. The government is doing its work. We have universal access fund for the communication, where we are trying to send the broadband to the rural area using the wireless technology. So we are in a very right position. And the theme of this meeting, I think, is perfect. And what we will get here going back home is something we are going to use it very well. Dr. Simba, thank you very much. Professor Encoma, thank you very much. Thank you very much for having us.