Working for a World Free of Poverty Expanding and extending top tier IT higher educational capacity; growing the IT human capital pipeline and accelerating Tanzanian ICT employment and economic development

There is a gap between the skills that East African Universities teach and the skills that students need There is a shortage of trained and educated human capital throughout Tanzania, particularly in ICT, sciences, engineering and related job families - A small percentage of highly capable African students go abroad to study ICT - Most institutes of higher education in East Africa cannot currently offer MIT or Stanford level IT and ICT courses to their students, nor Harvard, Wharton or Darden level business courses This gap is a drag on growth and economic development Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a foundational resource and free good that can help bridge the gap between the skills that East African Universities teach and the skills that students need P 2 of 12

MOOCs provide online university level education globally World class universities — including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania and Michigan — offer free, high quality, rigorously assessed, interactive, and highly accessible classes Courses range from computer science, business and engineering through literature, education and biology, all accessible to anyone with internet access via nearly any Wi-Fi or wireless enabled device including computers, tablets and a range of smart phones P 3 of 12

Coursera is a platform that will accelerate the development of Tanzanian business and ICT education Coursera is Partnered with over 30 Top Universities Coursera’s user base has grown faster than Google’s or Facebook’s Berkeley Columbia Princeton Johns Hopkins Stanford The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology University of British Columbia University of Edinburgh University of Melbourne University of Pennsylvania University of Virginia Coursera now has over 2.5 million unique users with over 3 million course registrations across 230+ courses Coursera has had more than 100,000 online participants for a course, with nearly half completing substantial portions of the course, and between 10-15% of registrants successfully completing and passing the course’s rigorous certification Once a Coursera course has run successfully as an open course on their global platform, it can be, by request, run as a private or closed course, managed by a local or regional university faculty P 4 of 12

The SMART initiative will build out Tanzania’s higher education capacity by leveraging Coursera’s platform Sustainable and scalable SMART Knowledge Hubs are the foundation of the SMART Initiative The SMART Knowledge Hub initiative will be directed and coordinated by COSTECH Knowledge Hubs will be organized around key stakeholders ranging from government ministries to local universities and faculty, corporate and private sector employers and NGOs, all with a shared mission to build ICT educational capacity, partnering to improve ICT employment and economic development in Dar and Tanzania P 5 of 12

The Knowledge Hub aims to provide graduates with skills and test new models for education Graduates (universities, polytechnic) _______________ Labor Market Candidates _______________ Employees Knowledge Hub (IT/ICT/BPO/Mobile) (COSTECH, private sector, universities) Smart Skills Jobs (IT, ICT, BPO, banking, tourism) _________________ Micro-work _________________ Start-ups P 6 of 12

COSTECH will launch a SMART Knowledge Hub Phase I model The model will be considered successful if it: -Co-creates and delivers MOOC and Hybrid IT/ICT/Business curriculum tied directly to industry identified employment tracks -Recruits and screens a participant cohort and provides pre-matriculation content and mentoring -Implements a full MOOC curriculum/employment track with successful student outcomes -Helps Knowledge Hub graduates secure jobs in the local, regional and global marketplace including through leveraging skills immediately for micro-work After the pilot, COSTECH will partner with key Dar es Salaam stakeholders to build out capacity and capability across the region by vetting and launching additional SMART Knowledge Hubs in targeted cities across the county To launch the Knowledge Hub model COSTECH will hire three expert consultants: -Curriculum and Content Specialist -Human Resource Specialist -Program Operational Specialist P 7 of 12

Job placement has been a focus of the curriculum design The current draft design attempts to blend feedback taken from interviews with Dar es Salaam based IT/ICT and business faculty, innovators and entrepreneurs, into a set of semester long, career track aligned curriculum plans which can be completed by students prior to the June recruiting season As students are in their last weeks of class, the team will focus on the targeted soft skills and career development training and preparations for interviews to ensure successful entrance into the IT or ICT workforce P 8 of 12

There are five curriculum tracks with classes taught by partner universities P 9 of 12

The Computer Science track is one of the five curriculum tracks; students will gain skills employers value P 10 of 12

The SMART Knowledge hub will prepare students for the growing micro-work market The micro-work market is enormous and could bring much needed capital to the region -Global potential for ICT/ITES outsourcing is currently estimated at US$500 billion, tapped so far up to only 18%, and expected to treble to US$1.5 to 1.6 trillion by 2020 A lack of skilled manpower is a binding constraint to the sector’s growth Even India which has 30% of the global labor supply suitable for the industry expects a shortfall of.8 to 1.2 million skilled workers for its ITES industry by 2012 Sub-Saharan Africa can equip its workers to benefit from this burgeoning market opportunity P 11 of 12

The SMART Knowledge Hub will launch March 7 th ; curriculum streams go from March until May FebruaryMarch, April, MayJune QualificationsMarch 7th Job Track- Curriculum StreamsSoft SkillsJob Fair/ Locations Students Recent Grads Young Professionals Launch Business and Entrepreneurship Business and Finance Computer Software Design and Development Computer Networking and Security Statistics and Decision Analysis Communicatio ns Presentation Career Development Resume Building Interviewing Universities COSTECH Co-Creation Lab TANZICT Incubator Hosted by Companies Demand-Corporate Partners: ISPs, Banks, Telecom, eGov, Entrepreneurship Supply: IFM, University of Dar es Salaam, KIT, EASTIC P 12 of 12