TCRA urges public to use social networks for economic gains
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- 09 Sep 2022
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The Northern Zone office of the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) said that it will continue to educate the public on the importance of using social networks to gain social and economic benefits.
The assurance was given on Wednesday, by the Northern Zone Manager of TCRA, Eng Imelda Salum, while giving her presentation during the authority’s education campaign on the best use of the social networks, which was held in Moshi, Kilimanjaro Region.
“Various types of social networks have many opportunities to make people develop themselves commercially as well as getting any kind of good education that a person wants, a good way of using networks instead of using these networks for evil acts such as crime, defamation or humiliating others”, she said, during the education campaign that carries the slogan Ascend Digitally.
Eng Salum said that the big difference in using social networks was that those who use it well end up benefiting economically and educationally while those who misuse the networks get ending up badly by getting various punishments including jail terms.
“That’s why TCRA in collaboration Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) with the police force, embarked on this special campaign so that people can understand how they can use the social networks well and benefit economically and educationally”, she said.
In his presentation during the educational campaign, Inspector Geofrey Amlima from the police force asked members of the public to make follow ups on the education provided through the campaign by the TCRA so that they could have the better understanding of the good uses social networks so as to avoid unexpected punishments.
“Others believe that the use of the social networks are their basic rights and that they can use them by writing or posting anything; what they don’t know is that there are legal grounds that guide the use of social networks”, he said. Read More…
