QUESTION: What is TTA?

ANSWER: TTA stands for Technology Transfer Alliance (TTA). It is a cooperation between Research and Higher Education Institutions implementing Social Entrepreneurship and Innovations Capacity-Building.

Q: When did it take place?

A: It took place from April 13 -15 2015 in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.

Q: What was this workshop about?

A: One of its aims was to present project examples of society-driven innovation projects based on social needs. Since WIMEA-ICT is one of the projects driven by society needs and KTH a partner to this project guided our project team on how to improve a business model in order to align expectations of all the project partners regarding the outcomes of the Automatic Weather Stations.

Q: Ms. Mary Nsabagwa, briefly tell us about your experience at this workshop

A: Maximus Byamukama and I designed and presented a business a model to a panel of experts from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). The panel of experts provided feedback that we could to improve on the model. We discussed with the supervisors about my PhD study plans from which recommendations were made. I was guided through experiments to acquaint myself with similar installation in the University of Bergen. In addition the participants from also discussed the planning for taking Research Component 3 research.