BREKING NYUUUZZZZZ: IBM appoints David Sawe to head Tanzania operations

Mr. David Sawe

IBM has announced the appointment of David Sawe as Business Development
Manager for Tanzania. Based in Dar es Salaam, Mr. Sawe will also head up
IBM East Africa's operations in Tanzania.

Mr Sawe's appointment reaffirms IBM’s strategy for long term commitment in
the East African region. With an extensive footprint in Tanzania, IBM has
recently been awarded several projects including notably a recently
signed agreement with National Microfinance Bank, Tanzania's bank with the
most extensive branch network.

Mr. Sawe, who has over 28 years in experience in the Information Technology
field, has worked with a wide variety of organizations. He was the
Tanzania Government's first Director responsible for e-Government affairs
at the President's Office for Public Service Management, and was until
recently an Associate at the Tanzania Global Development Learning Centre.

About IBM in Tanzania
IBM and the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MOEVT) signed
a collaboration agreement aimed at helping to realize the Tanzanian
Government’s vision of building a “Silicon Valley” type environment
around the University of Dodoma.

As part of the agreement, IBM will facilitate collaboration with US Universities on research projects in the area of smarter cities, cloud computing and business analytics.

IBM will also support the ministry in developing and implementing better access to technology and educational resources for Tanzanian universities and
secondary schools,especially in remote areas of the country.

It is hoped that the agreement will help to enhance the local educational and
information technology environment and promote a culture of
entrepreneurship.

Corporate Service Corps - over the past 24 months, through its Corporate
Service Corps programme, IBM has assigned 58 of its most talented
emerging leaders from more than 20 different countries on one month
assignments in Tanzania.

In this program, IBM has dedicated over 10,000 hours of pro bono information technology and business consulting to the University of Dodoma, Africa Wildlife Foundation, Tanzanian Association of Tour Operators and Institute of Accountancy. All of their work has
been connected with economic growth and job creation.

SMS for Life - in December last year, IBM announced it was working with
the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, Vodafone, Novartis and the Roll Back
Malaria Partnership to use information and communication technologies to
improve the availability of anti-malarial drugs in remote areas of
Tanzania. Called "SMS for Life", the pilot initiative used a combination
of mobile phones, SMS (Short Messaging Service) technologies and
intuitive web sites to track and manage the supply of anti-malarial
drugs.

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