DataVision International’s R&D department with the experienced programmers have conceptualized a new system targeted to Academic Sectors from the lowest levels to high learning institutions – Shule MIS.

Shule MIS is in continuous development, the launch of the first version comes with modules that capture the whole admission process from the first step to the final step. Also there is a Finance and Billing module which is essential in tracking fee payments made into school which can give reports on how a school is doing with this process.

Examination module is fully dedicated to exam and test results which when is fully filled can provide efficient aggregated and individual reports.

Shule MIS team is looking forward to attend more stakeholder events to showcase the power that can be utilized by school managers in boosting performance while keeping the operational costs low.

DataVision International in collaboration with Kigoma District Council have embarked into a result-oriented project which focuses at replacing  paper based tax collection with an electronic approach. This need is an outcome of the directive of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania requiring local government authorities to introduce electronic revenue collection systems for the purpose of enhancing the collection of revenue and managing of the same.

Given the agreement between DataVision and District Council of Kigoma, the tax collection system namely eTax, which has been developed by DataVision was to be piloted for a period of one month and thereafter rolled out to the identified tax collection points. The solution is linked to the Point of Sale (POS) to enable mobility of revenue collectors. With the awareness that rural areas might be having low or no network signal, eTax also functions on offline mode and push the transactional data anytime a substantial signal is available.

At the moment the solution, with more than 25 inbuilt performance monitoring reports, has been fully deployed to several points identified to be potential when it comes to tax collection. DataVision provides support in mapping and collecting data on tax collectors, to achieve detailed information of where the taxpayers are located and the payment status.

Since DataVision International has vast experience in the paperless collection with GIS mapping, the taxpayers’ database creation comes in line with our strength. With the help of the Government Authorities, DataVision International has managed to ensure that the pilot phase is fully functional at some of the revenue sources assuring maximum monitoring and control of the collections at all times.

DataVision has completed the training session for the upcoming Tanzania Firm-level Skills Survey 2015 (TZSS 2015) project contracted by the World Bank. The project aims to study the experience of private sector in Tanzania with regards to the labor market issues to achieve the snapshot of the skill profile of private firms, assessing the skill needs and constraints of the country’s private sector and stimulate policy discussion on issues of skills and training.

The objective of this survey is to provide a baseline of the skills profile of the Tanzanian private sector and to understand the demand and shortages of skills faced by firms in sectors of high growth potential for Tanzania. The findings of the study will inform policy discussions regarding the link between education and training systems and the skills needs of the private sector in the country.

The project will be using internally developed data collection tool – Tikiti to conduct TAPI (Tablet Assisted Personal Interviewing) across Tanzania. TZSS 2015 is aiming at interviewing a total of 390 entities from specified sectors within 5 regions in Tanzania.

DataVision has partnered with Development Gateway from the United States to assist the Government of Tanzania to undertake the Open Government Partnership by developing public open dashboard which are going to which collect, synthesize, and visualize data to help users (including government itself) analyze and surface narratives, support decision-making and reporting, and provide feedback for improving the quality of data through interactive mechanisms.

The dashboards are going to be focusing on three main areas: Water, Education and Health. The availability of well comprehensive data is going to bring about accountability and efficiency among the key stakeholders. The Government of Tanzania has made a considerable effort in implementing the Open Government Partnership (OGP) since 2011 when they joined. The initiative aims to make information about service delivery performance reliable and accessible in order to facilitate progress evaluation and performance of those public servants working along the service delivery chain.

With projects that bring about radical changes such as Big Results Now (BRN) initiative, the Government of Tanzania has increased quality, efficiency and transparency within the major sectors such as Health and Education bring about effective monitoring and evaluation of the associated undertakings. OGP is going to allow the citizen to get actively involved in the progress of the government activities and be able to seek for more data/ information if need be via Technology.

The two teams are looking forward to embark on this project this month, starting with the requirement analysis phase, followed by the technical development and the pilot phase for both of the ministries. The dashboards are going to bring about awareness among the citizens regarding all the projects undertaken by the government to improve their social welfare.