SOUTH AFRICA: Tanzania’s Minister of Information, Communication, and Information Technology Mr Nape Nnauye, has urged that there is need for more cooperation for improving people’s lives with Information Communication Technologies (ICT). He made the remark on the sidelines of the Africom in Cape Town, the largest African ICT event that saw a media premiere of a documentary featuring the efforts of connecting Mount Kilimanjaro with high-speed internet. “Collaborating is an important aspect if we want to achieve our goals,” the minister also made his point at the ministerial forum themed “Building a Future-Oriented, Digital Infrastructure”, co-hosted by the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) and the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) of South Africa. On the point of cooperation in the ICT field, the minister made the opening of the high-speed internet on the Mount Kilimanjaro on December 13th, 2022, as a symbolic case. As a part of the national ICT broadband backbone network project, the network was rolled out by Tanzania Telecommunications Corporation (TTCL) with support from Huawei. The move means climbers can access the Internet while scaling the mountain, as high as 5,985 meters above sea level, at Uhuru Peak. The minister thanked TTCL’s initiative to connect […]