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China Donates Computers and Training Experts to Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology

Commitment Year•2000Country of Activity•TanzaniaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•TanzaniaSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

Status

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Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2000

Start (actual): Dec 1, 2001

End (actual): Dec 1, 2003

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This project donates computers and training experts to the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/382872691.

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

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Government Agencies

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

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Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology

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China Donates Computers and Training Experts to Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology

Narrative

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Project narrative

On June 8, 2000, the Chinese embassy and Pius Ngwandu, the Tanzanian Minister of Science, Technology, and Higher Education, signed an agreement providing the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology with a gratis computer laboratory, including 50 'micro-computers', desks, chairs, printers, air conditioning, and two experts as teachers. According to a 2010 report, the computer lab was started in December 2001 and finished in December 2003.