Student innovators from the Department of Informatics and Information Technology (DIIT) recently joined Rural Livelihood Innovation Cohort3, organized by the Ifakara Innovation Hub, in a collaborative effort to uplift rural communities in Tanzania’s Kilombero River Basin. This initiative, led by Ifakara Hub, aims to use social innovation and entrepreneurship to create job opportunities and improve...Read More

In the third quarter of 2023, the website of the Department of Informatics and Information Technology (DIIT) in the College of Natural and Applied Sciences (CoNAS) at SUA has consistently held the second position in the category of “Best Academic Department Website Ranking”. The department website was ranked seventh in the SUA’s “Overall Website Ranking”...Read More

The Department of Informatics and Information Technology (DIIT) at SUA celebrated the end of the 2022/2023 academic year with a delightful evening of dancing, feasting, and friendship at the SUASA Club grounds on the lovely Edward Moringe Campus. This event marked yet another significant milestone in the department’s efforts to foster unity and solidarity. It...Read More

The Department of Informatics and Information Technology is pleased to announce a double victory, as they have successfully secured not one, but TWO grants. These grants, generously funded by COSTECH, IDRC and NORAD, represent a significant accomplishment for the department and the College of Natural and Applied Sciences (CoNAS) at Sokoine University of Agriculture. The...Read More

Ms. Theofrida Maginga, who is a member of staff in our Department (DIIT) at Sokoine University of Agriculture has successfully secured prestigious funding through the Global Grand Challenge initiative. Ms. Maginga’s research project titled “Integrated AI, Internet of Things (IoT), and a Swahili Chatbot: Agricultural Technology Solution for Early Detection of Maize Diseases”, will be...Read More

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to Ms. Anna Shangwe Mbughuni, our PhD candidate, for successfully defending her doctoral thesis titled “Enhancing Access to Local Contents in Tanzanian Universities through Open Access Institutional Repositories (OAIRs)” on August 1st, 2023. Under the guidance of Prof. Wulystan Mtega and Dr. Andrew Malekani, both members of the Department of...Read More

The Tanzania Climate Sensitive Waterborne Diseases Dataset for Predictive Machine Learning (ACHE Project) conducted its inception meeting at Morogoro Municipality on 31st July 2023. The project aims to collect data that will be used to predict climate-sensitive waterborne infectious disease outbreaks such as Ameobiasis, Diarrhea, and Typhoid, using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. The project is...Read More

A paper from SUARIS funding, entitled “Urban growth dynamics and expansion forms in 11 Tanzanian cities from 1990 to 2020”  authored by Dr. Neema Sumari et al. has been published in a peer review journal with impact factor 4.606. For more information, visit https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2023.2218114 Share thisRead More

Our colleague, Farian Severine Ishengoma successfully defended his PhD thesis “Integrated Drone Technologies and Machine Learning Techniques for Early Detection of Fall Armyworm in Maize Fields: A case study of East Africa” on 10th July 2023 at the African Center of Excellence in Internet of Things – ACEIoT, at the University of Rwanda, Rwanda. Dr. Ishengoma has...Read More

The Department of Informatics and Information Technology (DIIT) and the College of Natural and Applied Sciences (CoNAS) welcomed the Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) to the IT Innovation Lab’s 3D and Robotics studio (CEZERI Studio). The studio equipment were generously donated by the Turkish people under the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA). TBC visited the...Read More