Tanzania is undergoing a digital and technological transformation, reflected by the growing number of people connected to communications and internet services.
This is having a profound impact on the country’s social, cultural and economic frameworks, through enhanced access to key services and improved productivity and efficiency across economic sectors.
Mobile technology is at the center of Tanzania’s digital transformation. Mobile services today connect more people in the country than any other communications technology, with Internet penetration rate of more than doubled between 2013 and 2020, reaching 49 percent in 2020. That same year, 89 percent of the population were using a voice telecom service.
In Tanzania, technology development and the internet in particular now serve as a platform for improving international exposure, education, information sharing, innovation and enabling human capital development that allow technological markets to develop and integrate with daily services in a day to day businesses and government facilities.
It is an opportunity to integrate to a new and developing market for new technological services and innovations that are not yet exist in Tanzania.