National Information and Communications Technology Policy 3.4.2 Issue: Local Content Development Availability of local content in ICT products and services is important in order to meet national development goals. Current production capacity of ICT products and services with local content remains minimal with a limited focus, while development of electronic systems for local consumption especially for public service delivery, education, commerce and other service sectors including health as well as for export is still quite low. Furthermore, hosting of content locally is inadequate, as the overwhelming bulk of data is domiciled in overseas data centres. Almost all ICT products and services are imported with very little local content.. That is to say, the majority of the ICT-related companies and service providers trade in products and services with very little or no local content. The key challenges therefore are: lack of policy and legal framework on local traffic and hosting; lack of policy for promotion of local content development in the country; inadequate local skills and predominance of English language in ICT content, a language that is not used by most of citizens. Local content suffer from inadequate competence and investment from both public and private sectors. 3.4.2.1 Policy Objective To enhance local content in all aspects of ICT value chain and local hosting of electronic services. 3.4.2.2 Policy Statements The Government shall:i) Ensure a conducive environment to enhance hosting of ICT systems locally and localization of internally generated traffic; ii) Create an enabling environment that nurtures the development and promotion of local content in ICT products and services in partnership with public and private sector; iii) Put in place an effective mechanism to promote the use of Kiswahili in electronic services for transformation of Tanzania into knowledge society. 28