Proposal to Recognise Community Networks as Non-Commercial Internet Service Providers

TLDR

• The government has been urged to enact legislation recognising Community Networks as non-commercial internet service providers, a move stakeholders say would help extend internet access to millions of Tanzanians living.
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) stakeholders argue that such a framework would enable communities to establish and manage their own internet networks in areas where commercial telecommunications companies.
• Community Networks will help deliver internet connectivity, but digital literacy is what will transform that connectivity into real socio-economic development," he said.Also speaking at the meeting organised by Paradigm.