CC TANZANIA DONATES COMPUTERS TO KUMBUKUMBU PRIMARY SCHOOL

On 09th April 2015 Creative Commons Tanzania in Collaboration with Open University of Tanzania (OUT)  successfully donated desktop Computer to students at Kumbukumbu Primary School in Dar es Salaam Tanzania on event  followed by the  official launch of the school computer laboratory  .A total of ten computers was donated to the school that was previously  installed by CC Tanzania volunteers .

During  the handover ceremony ,Vice Chancellor of the Open University who is  a  patron of CC Tanzania informed the school about the ongoing plan to train 50 students of the  school on ICT  within the month of April 2015.

The training expect to consist of basic computer applications  that will follow with a brief information on Creative Commons in particular CC Tanzania and Importance of CC licenses along with introduction to OER .

The event will be a continuation of another training that was conducted by CC Tanzania at Academic International Primary School as part of School of Open (SOO) that was globally launched last year September which made CC Tanzania and Tanzania to be the first country in East Africa to do so.

At KumbuKumbu Primary School 

For more pictures of the event at Kumbu kumbu Primary School  click HERE .

All Photographs taken by Erasmus K  , CC Tanzania .

FIRST MEETING WITH OUR NEW PUBLIC LEAD

Recently CC Tanzania appointed Mr.Aristarik Hubert Maro as their new Public Lead taking over Hon.Judge.Dr.Paul Kihwelo who has been in other commitments following his appointment by the President of  United Republic of Tanzania as Judge of the Tanzanian High Court.

Mr.Aristarik is among few members who steered CC Tanzania previously before   his appointment as CC Tanzania Public lead he worked within the East Africa under the auspices of the Inter- University Council for East Africa managing the Vicres Project in Kampala, Uganda.He is now an assistant lecturer at the Open University of Tanzania.

Below is the picture taken during his first meeting with CC Tanzania executive team held at the Open University of Tanzania early this week.

"Rest assured you have a dynamic and visionary leader and with the perfect team of you guys we will take CC to the next level" Dr.Paul added. Again welcome onboard Mr.Aristarik.