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Yay!

Many more Tanzanian programmers than I expected on this thread!

Out of curiosity - what kind of technologies do you use during your day job? Is it a typical choice for the banking industry in Tanzania, in your experience?

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For my day job I use mostly SQL Server and a beast of an application which is written in VB and C#.Net by some developers in another country, I am only allowed to touch the configuration and scripting layer (C#) on this one and the thousands of configuration options it contains. But I do mostly Android in my spare time if I have the energy.

Pole sana.

I hope the android "app" concept catches on as adoption increases - I'd love to see the same kind of local intelligence applications as in Europe here!

I find buying things intelligently is hard here for example, since the knowledge of where things are at what price is not transparent (you must know people).

Habari, American new to TZ (but not E. Africa) here. Is there much of a tech community around? I stopped by Kinu and Buni. Both seem nice but sparse...

I have very good contacts with my ISP (habari node), and the tech crowd here is mostly centered around the Arusha Linux User group, so it might not be super relevant for you if you're in Dar.

I suspect Dar would have more tech stuff going on - the ubuntu-tz LoCo seems to be mostly based in Dar for example.

There is also http://www.teknohama.or.tz/. Their events seem to be geared mostly toward beginners and not to people already in tech. A lot of the events are organized at awkward times for someone with a 9-5, participants are also very young, I'm 31 and was probably the oldest at one of the Samsung events that was held at Kinu. This is not necessarily a bad thing though.

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