Tanzania’s Cybercrime Act of 2015 will become operational from September, according to the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology, Mr John Mngodo.
Speaking in Dar es Salaam, at the sixth International Conference on Development policy, Mngodo said currently, the ministry was working on regulations on implementation of the Act, after the president signed its bill in May.
“The implementation of the Act will start next month, on September 1 and we are expecting by the end of the year the regulations will be ready for use,” he elaborated.
According to him, digital age has changed and crime can be conducted in the cyber space, thus the Act was put in place to deal with those challenges. He added that many Tanzanians have not fully utilised mobile technology especially in the area of education. Instead, he said people mostly use mobile devices to send and receive messages, call and conduct financial transactions.
