COSTECH results 2017
SPIDER has an advisory role and provides expertise to support COSTECH’s activity on building the digital platforms that will contribute to the research communication sub-programme. Experts from DSV and other SPIDER partner universities provide on-site support through short consultancies.
Spider sent personnel to COSTECH between January and June 2017. These persons supported the project team involving systems developers, researchers and IT personnel from COSTECH and local IT start-ups from innovation hubs to address capacity deficiencies and capacity building challenges. Support ranged from system requirements gathering, needs assessment, designing and making evaluations during the development processes of the mentioned systems. Systems are currently in the last cycles of development and will transform Tanzania’s research related activities.
The solutions which have been developed will provide the following web-based services: