Tanzania is striving to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5 that call for reducing Neonatal and Maternal Mortality Rate (MNMR) by 2015. In 2010, Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR) was recorded at 51 per 1,000 live births and Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) at 454 per 100,000 live births. Despite of the devoted efforts and significant progress, still the mortality rate needs attention and effective intervention to cut it down considerably. The capability and power of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) need to be effectively exploited in revolutionizing health sector in Tanzania. The witnessed expansion of mobile phones usage and extended network coverage presents potential opportunity in enhancing quality of Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (MNCH) services delivery. This paper explores the role of ICT in reducing MMR and NMR, existing solutions are intensely reviewed to discover what is lacking and provide necessary recommendations.

Online Social Networks (OSNs) pervades all aspects of modern society, particularly with the tremendous developments of mobile technologies. This study surveys the exploitations of Online Social Networks for educational purposes by the students at the University of Dodoma (UDOM). A sample student from each college was taken and a questionnaire survey was administered to get the response from the students. The responses show that many social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Blogs and Wikis are frequently used by the responded students for communication, class activities, online learning and connecting with instructors. In general, the acceptance of OSNs by University students alerts that OSNs has the power to expand the walls of the classroom, expose students to the great thinkers of the world, and give them a voice in both local and global conversations. The findings of this study will help build a baseline for future investigations on exploiting social media for improving education delivery systems in Tanzania.

In the effort to reduce maternal mortality rate, Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 was declared globally. Tanzania has no exception on this. Maternal mortality and morbidity is still an enduring challenge in Tanzania. In 2010 the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) was recorded at 454/100,000 live births. Despite of the devoted efforts and significant progress that Tanzania has made in reducing MMR, still the situation demands for more improved intervention. One among the contributors of maternal mortality is lack of education to expectant mothers. In this paper, a model with a pivotal role to extend health information accessibility to expectant mothers is proposed. A proposed model is exploiting the potential and power of mobile phones to deliver its services. Existing extended network coverage and expansion of mobile phone usage are the unprecedented advantages that would also be exploited.

Mobile technologies are increasingly becoming an integral part of student's lives in academia. Devices such as smartphones, tablets, and e-book readers connect users to the world instantly, heightening access to information and enabling interactivity with others. Applications that run on these devices let users not only consume but also discover and produce content. As such, they continue to transform how college students learn, as well as influence their learning preferences, both within and outside the classroom. This study survey the adoption of mobile phones among university students and their attitudes on the uses of cell phones as a venue for learning their class handouts and hunt ground for educational materials. The findings show that 53.3% of students own smart-phones while 41.8% own basic cell-phone (Featured phone). 42.4% of them use their cell phones to search educational reference materials online, 7.3% of them use cell phones to play games, 24.3% use their cell phones to read online news, 33.3% use their cell phones to connect to social networks. Overall these results suggest mobile phone as promising device for delivering learning materials to students. General TermsMobile Learning

Advancement in Information and Communication Technology (ICTs) can be used to improve delivery of education in higher learning institutions, especially in poor countries. Numerous universities in the world are turning to the use of ICTs to improve the provision and quality of education. Despite these facts, the situation in Tanzania is different. A number of factors have been named as contributors to the ineffective use of ICTs in university education. This study resurveys the main intervening factors. Using the method of logical analysis to derive their course-effect relationships, the direction towards improving the situation is suggested. It was found that, the main obstacle to effective adaptation of online learning in Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs) is the lack of awareness, which leads to lack of management support and poor policy which leads to general neglect of the approach.