UK GOVERNMENT MUST INVEST ON CAPACITY BUILDING TO FIGHT CYBERCRIMES — Dr. ALI.

Mr. Masagos ZulkiflThe fight against Cybercrime has never been a work of individual alone or specific group of people. Joining hands is strongly recommended to win the fight – Cybercrimes have no borders and the impact that we see today is very high compared to the past few years. "MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES"  have recently showed a great example not forgetting European Union with its Cybersecurity framework.

 In Singapore, the Government hopes to work more closely with the private and education...

Building Capacity for Research and Training in Tanzania
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Dar es Salaam — Quintino Mgani is professor of chemistry at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He also coordinates the SABINA (Southern African Biochemistry and Informatics for Natural Products) network of the Regional Initiative in Science and ...

Mr. Kwesi Amissah-Arthur Ghana Vice-President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has urged ISPs to put in place effective measures to combat internet fraud, amid rapidly increasingly cybercrime.

Ghana is currently ranked second in Africa behind Nigeria in terms of cybercrime. Cameroon is third.

In Ghana cybercrime is called “Sakawa”and it is claiming victims almost every week.
“Ghana cybercriminals are young (21-35 years of age), highly IT skilled, agile and technologically alert, and thought to...

>A new report ranks Tanzania first in capacity development in Africa.According to the 2014 Africa Capacity Report (ACR), released by the Zimbabwe-based African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), Tanzania is the best performer in policy environment, capacity for implementation and capacity to generate development results.

Zanzibar women need capacity building for general elections
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WOMEN in Zanzibar are lobbying for capacity building, a move they have described crucial in enabling them participate actively in the forthcoming general elections. The call for help was echoed by community women groups when they gathered to share ...

>Let’s face it, research in Tanzania is side-lined regardless of the remarkable boost on its spending. The 1986 Tanzania’s science and technology policy specified to spend 3.5 per cent of the GDP on the advancement of science and technology in the country. But it was later noted that the spending was not achievable. In 1995, the policy was revised and it was recommended that the research budget should be at least one per cent of the GDP.

The CEO of the world's largest security software vendor Symantec has said in reports that the demand for the cybersecurity workforce is expected to rise by 6 million professionals globally by 2019, with a projected shortfall of 1.5 million. That will leave companies and information less protected than they should be against cybercriminals.

Apparently, despite of skills shortage in the field of cybersecurity – There is a very low effort done to increase the number of experts in the field. I...

With the growing technology, there is a need for cybersecurity experts and ICT experts at large to keep on learning new things and updating themselves of the current technologies – Dr. Waudo urged during the opening of the conference I attended in "KENYA"

The Rapid changes of technology each day that comes along with new techniques used to commit cybercrimes should force us to do the best we can to share knowledge among us and collaborate for us to be able to fight cybercrimes.

Knowledge...

EU Naval Force Warship BNS Leopold I Conducts Maritime Capacity Building ...
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On 19 and 20 November, during her recent port visit to Dar Es Salam, EU Naval Force warship BNS Leopold I hosted members of the Tanzanian Navy in support of EUCAP Nestor's initiative to conduct Local Maritime Capability Building (LMCB). On the first ...