[{"bbox": [111, 105, 411, 136], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 1.2. Summary of the Action"}, {"bbox": [82, 149, 1147, 310], "category": "Text", "text": "The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector is growing fast, contributing to social and economic development in the country. Tanzania's development plan, Vision 2025, seeks to transform the country from a least developed to a semi-industrialised middle-income country with a modernised economy and high-quality human capital by 2025. The newly enacted Five Year Development Plan sets out specific objectives related to the ICT sector and confirms that the government should embrace digital technologies to accelerate industrialisation, build digital skills and leverage entrepreneurship and job creation."}, {"bbox": [82, 313, 1147, 474], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action Digital4Tanzania aims to promote primarily Digital Economy, e-Governance and Connectivity. It has also a cross-cutting relevance for all sectors benefitting from a better governance and improved e-services (productive sectors as well as social ones - education, health – and more generally e-government). The action will focus on accelerating the transformative impact that digitalisation is already having in Tanzania to bridge the socio-geographic divide and provide more opportunities to women, youth and the population at large. In particular, it will deliver on the following key domains and objectives:"}, {"bbox": [82, 474, 987, 500], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. **Digital Government**: improve the digital economy and the use of e-government and e-services;"}, {"bbox": [82, 500, 1147, 554], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. **Inclusive Connectivity**: support connectivity investments as an enabler for a more conducive environment for public and private actors – and more generally citizens – to operate, addressing the gender and geographic divide;"}, {"bbox": [82, 554, 1147, 607], "category": "List-item", "text": "3. **Digital Trade Support**: develop the fintech sector and innovation ecosystems in the country and the region, ensuring women and youth access to job opportunities."}, {"bbox": [82, 611, 1147, 720], "category": "Text", "text": "Policy dialogue will target key priorities and reforms such as connectivity, regulatory framework, cybersecurity and data protection, making sure that cross cutting issues are properly considered and mainstreamed. At the same time, it will specifically work on improving the country system to ensure a better M&E, accountability and an improved environment for digital trade."}, {"bbox": [82, 724, 1147, 882], "category": "Text", "text": "Budget support and contribution agreement modalities will be used to promote EU values (e.g. on cybersecurity and data protection) and interests (e.g. promotion of EU investments in the country). To build capacity of public actors (duty-bearers) in a highly specialised sector, a twinning operation will be favoured. Guarantee operations may contribute e.g. to connectivity expansion ensuring the peoples' rights (rights-holders). Complementarities will be sought with the Team Europe Initiatives and with ongoing actions from EU Member-States interested in financing the ICT sector."}, {"bbox": [72, 911, 302, 946], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 2. RATIONALE"}, {"bbox": [72, 975, 201, 1003], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.1 Context"}, {"bbox": [82, 1045, 1147, 1232], "category": "Text", "text": "The Republic of Tanzania has a sustained political stability and a diversified economy with abundant natural resources. Tanzania achieved in 2020 the status of low middle-income country and now strives to maintain it, in spite of the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The country's population is about 60 million in 2020, making it the most populous nation within the East African Community (EAC) Partner States. 63% of Tanzania's population is below 24 years old. The rapid population growth and limited employment opportunities mean that the country needs to create job for over 800,000 youth entering the job market on an annual basis. Digital technologies are seen as one of the avenues for creating jobs."}, {"bbox": [82, 1236, 1147, 1504], "category": "Text", "text": "The ICT sector is growing fast, contributing to social and economic development in the country. Tanzania's Development Plan, Vision 2025, seeks to transform the country from a least developed to a semi-industrialised middle-income country with a modernised economy and high-quality human capital by 2025. The newly enacted Five Year Development Plan for the period 2021-25, \"Realising Competitiveness and Industrialisation for Human Development\", sets out specific objectives related to the ICT sector as enabler to strengthen industrialisation, support increased enterprise development and private sector engagement, and accelerate broad-based/inclusive economic growth through poverty reduction and social development interventions as well as targeted productive capacities for the youth, women and disadvantaged groups. These objectives confirm that the government should embrace digital and frontier technologies to accelerate industrialisation, build digital skills and leverage digital technologies for entrepreneurship and job creation for women and men."}, {"bbox": [82, 1508, 1147, 1589], "category": "Text", "text": "Being a member of the EAC and the Southern African Development Community, Tanzania is well located to be a regional hub for the surrounding landlocked countries and for vast areas of the other bordering countries. Through its National ICT Broadband Backbone (NICTBB), Tanzania has established a high-speed fibre optic link to Kenya,"}, {"bbox": [1051, 1663, 1158, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 4 of 24"}]