DC: Public-private partnership best way to bring about development

I greet you on behalf of the Tanzania Professionals Network, a network that was started as a Non-Governmental Organization which brings together Tanzanian Professionals and corporate from various industries within and outside the country to address cross-cutting issues. The top agenda being mobilizing our resources using the Power of Brain to empower economically Professionals and Tanzanians at large by using opportunities which has already been identified.TPN has decided to organize the...

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Public, private partnership bill tabled in House
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THE Public Private Partnership (PPP) Amendment Bill, 2014 aimed at establishing a one stop centre, PPP Centre, to improve efficiency and coordination of projects under partnership between public and private sector was tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.

Be committed, bring development - public servants urged
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PUBLIC servants in Songea District have been advised to devote their professionalism and be committed to bring development to ordinary citizens. The advice was sounded by the District Executive Director (DED), Mr Sigsibet, when addressing a fullcouncil ...

*Alipay users to benefit from Ecobank’s cross-border remittance solution
 The leading pan-African bank, Ecobank, has signed a cross-border remittance agreement with Alipay, the world’s leading payment and lifestyle platform, that aims to bring more inclusive financial services by providing a fast, safe, affordable and convenient way for workers to transfer money back home.
The partnership will facilitate instant transfers from Rapidtransfer, Ecobank’s remittance solution, to users of Alipay,...

IBM Research Scientist, Dr. Kommy Weldemariam with pupils from Riara School, Nairobi exploring how technology can help improve educational outcomes.

*Launch project in Mombasa County, Kenya using technology to improve understanding of educational challenges in schools

RTI International  (http://www.rti.org) – a leading nonprofit research institute – and IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Africa research lab (http://www.research.ibm.com/labs/africa) have announced a partnership to deploy big data analytics...

>The private sector should now contemplate financing development projects in the East African Community (EAC) bloc as a measure to cut down donor dependency.

Talking to the business community of Tanzania on December 3, the President of United Republic of Tanzania reminded the business community on the need to be patriotic in their endeavour to become rich.

Public and private sectors need to work closely in order to effectively address challenges facing farmers, it has been argued.

Among the concepts which are hogging the headlines are Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMOs) and Public/Private Partnerships (P3, P3 or PPP: NOT to be confused with the ‘PPP’/Purchasing Power Parity in the GDP stakes!)