Tanzania will take sometime to develop and implement Spatial Data Storage Infrastructure (SDIs) in municipal councils, private firms and even government departments due to lack of supportive technical framework from the central government, it has been learnt. A research carried out by a senior lecturer in Geomatics at Ardhi University, Dr Martin Hagai, on SDI implementation in Tanzania indicates that although efforts to develop spatial data infrastructure started worldwide in the late 1970’s, in many African countries, they are still perceived as new innovations and have not penetrated to all organisational parts to bring about effective management and development. Besides that lack of an SDI policy, awareness and knowledge, as well as limited funding to sustain them have been identified as the main problems affecting their implementation. Read More
