Submitted by Jumanne Mtambalike, Trainee Manager of The Innovation Space (Buni Space)

 

Organisation: TANZICT Project, Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH)

 

The Challenge

 

The biggest challenge right now to most of our local farmers is predicting the right time for them to start cultivating and understanding the quality of the soil before the planting season. The biggest challenge from the developers side is that most of the local farmers don't use the smart phones so probably we will target government official helping the farmers. So something simple but target the problem direct will be very useful and may be (platform independent). People are cost conscious in developing countries.

 

About the Organisation

 

TANZICT stands for The Information Society and ICT Sector Development Project. It’s bilateral collaboration project between the Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology of Tanzania (MCST) and Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

 

The project’s overall objective is a strengthened Tanzanian information society with enhanced capacities to contribute to the achievement of the Government’s socio-economic development goals.