Dear Mr. President,
ESTA-TZ Limited is dealing with the development of a city of science, technology and innovation, I.e. ESTA-Tanzanite City. The City is our endeavor to stimulate the development of home grown technology capabilities by empowering and enabling university and college graduates in the fields of science and technology, to develop technology and manufacturing capabilities, then assist them to launch and build new technology-based industries that will be owned in partnership with other citizen through Friend’s Club of the Tanzanite City
ESTA-TZ Limited is dealing with the development of a city of science, technology and innovation, I.e. ESTA-Tanzanite City. The City is our endeavor to stimulate the development of home grown technology capabilities by empowering and enabling university and college graduates in the fields of science and technology, to develop technology and manufacturing capabilities, then assist them to launch and build new technology-based industries that will be owned in partnership with other citizen through Friend’s Club of the Tanzanite City
Our
motivation being to make the city an Africa’s factory and innovation
powerhouse, that will affect everyone’s life in this continent and play great
role in improving the quality of life, economic growth and protecting our
environment, the Tanzanite City, will be the mining of the talents from the brains of our young
people and a factory for processing them out into automobiles, ships,
computers, processing industries, TVs, mobile phones, etc. it will be the hatchery of technology industries in Tanzania,
Knowing
that this is very big undertaking that we can only achieve with the assistance
and generosity from all members of our community, the government and
non-government Institutions, and that Without these, achieving this mission
will not be possible, we are now working to establish a Not for Profit Trust
(ESTA-Tanzanite City Trust) that will be responsible to support the whole
mission as described in the Grand Concept Manual
Dear
Mr. President, with this letter first of all I would like to recognize your effort
to transform our country especially with your ambition to make Tanzania highly
industrialized in the next ten years. We know how tuff it is to change the mindset
of the people and make them believe in what you are doing against their status
quo, don’t be discouraged, one day if not now people will understand your
language and see what you are looking after, but before we reach there be sure
that a lot will happen to either encourage or discourage you. All in all, it
needs big heart and a lot sacrifices that already you have demonstrated, we are
sure with that spirit of yours we are heading the right direction.
Dear
Mr. President, during Mwl. Nyerere’s age, at schools we were taught that for
our nation to develop we need four major ingredients; Land, good politics,
people and good governance. With changes that had occurred in the world since
the end of cold war in the end of 1980s we can now redefine the ingredients of
development as; Good governance, technology and nature resources. Good
governance is mandatory but must be mixed with either of the two, technology or
access to natural resources or both as it is for the highly developed
countries. The poorest countries have only one ingredient and they have stuck,
fast developing countries have at least two, good governance and technology, or
good governance and plenty of natural resources.
Good
governance puts the systems in place and brings discipline and makes the people
focus on development businesses. Where good governance is blended with
technology, the country becomes strong and stable and can access natural
resources from other countries. And when the good governance is blended with
plenty of natural resources, the countries could properly plan the use of their
resources to acquire the technology they need. Having technology or natural
resources without good governance normally leads to the violence and unrests
caused by scrambles for control among the greedy
Dear
Mr. President, you are now transforming our nation towards good governance and
discipline, blending it with the plenty of natural resources our country have
been endowed, we only need technology to move from where we are to our promise
land. With technology, we will be able to sustainably harvest our natural
resources, process them and utilize them to bring wealth to our people, with
technology we can make our country the Africa Factory where all other African
countries will turn to for their various needs instead of going all the way out
to other continents. This will be great footstep embracing the dream of the
father of our nation of uniting Africa economically
As I
have said above, this is a tuff undertaking and required the participation of
all stake holders and citizens of this country to make it. You my president
alone won’t succeed, you need our support, and your government if they real
want to support your vision of industrialized Tanzania, must truly commit
themselves to work with big dreamers who have great ideas and want to change
this world.
We at
ESTA-TZ believe that this country will be developed by our own efforts, our
brains and determinations, no one will come from china, from Europe, from Asia
or from America to develop us but all of them can render great contribution to
our development if we will be able to partner with them and benefit from each
other, they need our resources as much as we need their technology, let’s play
the right card now for the better future of our nation.
Understanding
this all, the Tanzanite City is one of the strategy that will provide sound
facilities & infrastructures required to cater the needs of the expected
scientific and technological advancement and supporting R&D and other
technological operations in the Tanzanite City and provide to the talents and
experts, the required resources to support their’ activities and enable them to
conduct researches, build new instruments, conduct experiments, and
scientifically test their ideas in development of technologies that address
social and economic needs of our people, and bridge the gap between need and
means; between scientific & engineering challenges and technological
innovations needed to overcome them; between laboratory development and
demonstration in the field.
To solve our
problems and develop the capability to create jobs and increase the flow of
foreign currencies into our country, we must greatly reduce our dependence on
imported items and instead we should develop the technology capability to
manufacture industrial items to carter our own needs and the needs of our
neighboring countries, In order to achieve
this. The Tanzanite city if successful will address the following
issues:
Importing everything while we export less: This not only narrows the opportunity of our nation to create
jobs but also drains our foreign currency reserves which by the way we don’t
have much because we don’t export much as we import, to combat this, we must continuously
and sustainably reduce within specific period of time, our dependence to the
import of technology items by developing technology capabilities to
manufacturing of our own products rather than selling products from other
countries.
Utilized our country’s geographical position to our advantage: Our country is a gate way by which our land locked neighboring
countries use for import of their industrial items and exports of raw
materials. When they pass by, we join them and go all the way out there to
bring things that our young graduates from our universities would have been
manufacturing here.
Export of raw materials: Since
we do not have technologies for processing our agricultural products and
mineral raw materials we export them raw, our neighbors are also using our
country to export their raw materials. The question is wouldn’t it be wealth if
we could process those materials into finished or semi-finished products before
we allow them out of our boarders? What does it take and How do we manage?
Where and When should we start? how do we start?
Lack of access to the new technologies & mechanisms for
technology transfer: Now our countries are in
competition to lure the foreign investors (FDI) to invest in various
manufacturing sectors such as assembling and processing industries. But due to
the fact that there is big gap in technology capabilities between the foreign
investors and our entrepreneurs and the link between them is very weak, it is
difficult for our entrepreneurs gaining access to the new technologies via
foreign joint ventures and Foreign Direct Investment hence they are unable to
absorb, assimilate, and innovate the new technologies
Because
our country has no plenty of resources to facilitate quick evolution
industrialization, the best way to go about may involve doing the following:
·
develop our own homegrown
technology capabilities and promote rapid progress of export-oriented
industrialization and development of strong and competitive Small & Medium
Industrial Enterprises as an essential prerequisite for continued development
and increased competitiveness of the manufacturing industries.
·
creating geographical proximity
between the core industries and its upstream and downstream businesses to easy
sharing of the common facilities and resources hence reducing technology
development and manufacturing costs, we should create perfect ecosystem and
link between economic development, people development and government revenue
creation,
·
creating link between foreign
investors especially assembly industries and local entrepreneurs especially
supporting industries and facilitate innovation driven growth of
technology-based industries and finally We need to create conducive environment
for launching and building myriad technology-based industries and nurture them
through to stand-alone stage, and connect them with foreign investors to create
partnership that will benefit both
And
that is all about development of the Tanzanite City of Science, Technology and
Innovation
Dear
Mr. President, May I Take this Opportunity to ask your government to support us
and join hands with us to achieving this crucial mission. The generous support of
your government will make it possible to develop our own “Guangzhou”, where
people from other African countries will turn to for their shopping instead of
just passing by and going all the way to Asia buying items that we could
manufacture here so creating jobs and increasing our foreign currencies
reserve.
From
your government, we need two things; number one is land - about 400sqkm with
expansion provision for the development of the city where about 100,000
industrial enterprises will be built in the next 15 year that will create about
two million direct jobs in this city. Second is support from your governments
institution such as COSTECH, TIRDO, SIDO, BRELA, TFDA, TBS etc.
With
this support, we are sure to TURN BUSHES INTO HIGHLY INDUSTIALISED CITY, and
make our own GUANGZHOU & SILICON VALLEY for Africa
Regards
Nsollo Nkalla
CEO & Founder
ESTA-Tanzanite City
0713253250 / 0752229090
