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Item Experience In Promoting Female Participation in Science and Engineering Training by Mbeya Institute of Science and Technology(ResearchGate, 2008-01) Prof. Msambichaka, Joseph. J.; Dr. Minga, Lusajo M.Mbeya Institute of Science and Technology is one of four Government Technical Institutions in Tanzania. Education and Training in these Technical Institutions are based on Science and Engineering fields. The basic catchments areas are the students who have completed Ordinary Secondary Schools Education with good passes in science subjects. More male students are opting to study science subjects in Ordinary Secondary Schools than female students. This attributes to more male students to enroll in Technical Institutions than female students due to the limited number of female students from the catchments areas. There are very few female students with good passes in science subjects who can be enrolled in these Institutions. In order to promote female participation in science and engineering fields, technical institutions have adopted an affirmative action whereby female students with low passes in science subjects are provided with special access course programmes. Those who pass Access Course examinations are allowed to continue with the course of three years at technician level. This initiative has attributed to a promising progress in enrollments of female students in technical institutions. There are few challenges which Technical Institutions are facing; funding is one of the main challenges which negatively impact on this programme. Some of the female students with low passes in science subjects and who are interested with this field are coming from poor families, that they can not afford to pay a little tuition fee contributions, little payment for accommodation and they can not even afford to pay for their own meals. This paper explains the experience of Mbeya Institute of Science and Technology in using the Access Course Programmes to increase the female students’ enrollments in Science and Engineering training.Item Investigating the Factors Affecting Broadband Adoption in Tanzania: A Case of Dares Salaam, Tanzania(International Journal of Computer Applications, 2014-12-15) Nyondo, Samson; Anatory, Justinian; Mtonyole, NixonBroadband access has become an important resource for individuals and communities. A high-speed connection to the internet provides opportunities for many economic, social and cultural benefits. Recent researches in developing countries points to the appalling broadband penetration rates in these countries. An understanding of the factors affecting broadband adoption in these countries is a key to any strategy to improve broadband penetration figures. This paper examined several attitudinal, normative and control factors as identified from literature to provide insights of broadband adopters and non-adopters in Tanzania. The findings suggested that the utilitarian outcomes and relative advantage Nixon Mtonyole The University of Dodoma However, while sub-Saharan Africa has been very successful in increasing access to basic voice communications, and Africa’s rapid adoption of the mobile phone is quickly closing the “digital divide” in voice services, the broadband access gap between the region and the rest of the world is getting wider [4]. On the other hand, broadband availability is not the same as broadband adoption [5]. Despite the importance of broadband to modern life as a transforming technology which is now becoming available in many developing countries, the levels of adoption among the population groups may cause them to fall behind economically, socially, and politically [6]. were the major factors influencing consumers’ decision to adopt broadband in Tanzania. The findings from regression analysis also showed that the relative advantage, utilitarian outcomes and self-efficacy factors were more significant in explaining consumers’ behavioral intention to adopt broadband. On the other hand, the “expenses of broadband services” and “lack of appropriate equipment to access broadband”, had the highest importance rating among the barriers to adopt broadband in Tanzania