The Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) and Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve East Africa’s Weather Information Management by Application of Suitable Information Communication Technology (WIMEA-ICTs).

WIMEA-ICT is a combined research and capacity building project funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), under the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development scheme (NORHED).

Speaking during the signing of the MoU, WIMEA-ICT programme coordinator Dr. Amos Nungu said the project is a cooperation between Makerere University, DIT, and the University of Juba in South Sudan and Geophysical Institute of the University of Bergen.

Dr. Nungu said the meteorological agencies in the three countries are the beneficiaries of the project outcomes. “Accessibility to reliable weather information is vital for decision making in various sectors such as agriculture, disaster management, aviation, fishing, mining, construction, defense, water resources and health,” he said.