It is this context that government has urged scientists and researchers in the country to make sure that their research findings and innovations are not kept in shelves, but reach the end users on time for increased and improved productivity.
Indeed scientific research results and innovations should be in line with the government’s second five-year development plan which focuses on industrial economy.
The government understands the contributions of science and technology to improve people’s lives and that’s why it has set aside 12.8 billion/- to advance scientific researches and innovations in this years’ budget.
We live in a highly sophisticated world where everything is almost achievable. There would probably have been no changes between the world of today and that of three centuries ago if necessity and serendipitous discoveries had not driven men to achieve great things.
The benefits of science and technology far outweigh every perceived shortcoming. Some of the biggest effects of technology are in the area of communication; through the internet and mobile phones. There is advancement of communication and expansions of economic commerce.
Today we hear of information and communication technology (ICT). Any institution worth its name must have it in place to be really outstanding. Information technology has become boosted in today's generation from the field of communication, business, education, and down to the entertainment industry.
Through information technology, work performances are boosted with less effort and greater productivity by using various operations. Without computers or the internet it will be difficult for people all over the world to get their questions answered.
One may use the internet to locate a wealth of information with which to answer an essay question that may have been assigned at school, communicate with people, conduct transactions, access news, buy and advertise goods. The list is endless.
Indeed modern technology indeed has been great. For third world countries and Tanzania is no exception, however, it has been challenging, especially the area of production. Only consuming and not been able to manufacture does not favour any country when it comes to balance of trade.
The most sensitive parts of technology are the theoretical or conceptual parts and technical parts.
These are the backbone of technological development anywhere in the world. Without the ideas, there will not be technology. Third world countries need to go back to the basics, that is, to the primitive.
There must be meeting ground for tradition and modern technological invention. Third world countries started wrongly. This makes third world countries to be a dependent system because working in the factories are routine work and this inevitably links to the issue of the idea of technology transfer.
Tanzania should seek for technological transfer, but the problem is that no nation is ready to transfer her hard earned technological knowledge to any other nation for some certain reasons which drive nations into competition, world politics and economic prowess.
Tanzania should consider embarking on technological espionage so as to acquire the rudiments for technological development if we must liberate ourselves from the shackles of technological domination.
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