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<p>Hi Team,<br>
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<div>Just as an update, we had a meeting as TISPA local organizing committee and below are the pointers from the discussion.
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<strong>TISPA Local Organizing Committee Meeting<br>
Location: TISPA Offices<br>
Date: 04/09/2018<br>
Time: 1400 - 16:00 Hrs</strong><br>
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Agenda Items:<br>
1. Social Event<br>
2. Delegates Participation<br>
3. Media coverage<br>
4. Event logistics <br>
5. Local-host guest of Guest of Honor<br>
6. AoB<br>
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<strong>Outcome of the deliberation:</strong><br>
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<strong>1. Social events </strong><br>
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Different stakeholders in the industry have been approached by TISPA for sponsorship but until now, none has committed to sponsor the social event whose cost is around 10,000USD.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">We have then agreed to focus our energies on approaching at least some Telecoms and Bank with Joseph taking the lead to follow up on (Vodacom and Tigo ) and Noah to follow up on (NMB Bank, Airtel and Sportspesa ).<br>
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Once the sponsorship is locked down, we shall then decide on the venue but we need a backup plan in place just in case.<br>
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<li>Venue for Social (preferably Sea-cliff hotel or Golden Tulip )</li></ul>
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<strong>2. Delegates Participation</strong><br>
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On the issue of getting more people to register for the event locally, we agreed that we should consider the below options<br>
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<li>To request SAFNOG OC to allow the 30 TISPA members to send at-least only one person from their organisation as a TISPA member to attend for free. Any other person will have to pay.</li><li>To allow at-least 30 tzNOG students to attend for free since they will not be able to afford paying for both training and conference</li><li>tzNOG to pay for the tzNOG secretariat members participation</li><li>TISPA to pay for the regional IX managers participation</li></ul>
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<strong>3. Media coverage</strong><br>
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We agreed that we consider running some adverts in the major news papers and blogs for a wider advertising of the event next week
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<li>Guardian</li><li>Daily News</li><li>Wanainchi</li><li>Millard blog</li><li>MoDeji blog<br>
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We also agreed that we also consider holding a press conference next week latest<br>
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<li>We will prepare some soft/hard copy content as discussion points during the press briefing which will include members from (TCRA, TISPA and tzNOG)</li><li>We need information on the content that will be discussed during the conference to attract industry attention.<br>
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<strong>4. Event logistics </strong><br>
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In terms of logistics, we noted that;<br>
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<li>Registration will be done by (SAFNOG Molly, Jessica, Portia + ISOC Tanzania chapter volunteers)</li><li>Internet Connectivity will be done by SEACOM + Simbanet + CTV</li><li>Transport to social event will be organized by TISPA based on sponsorhip package<br>
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<strong>5. Local-host guest of Guest of Honour</strong><br>
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We also agreed that we invite; <br>
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<li>The Minister of ICT as Guest of Honor for the opening of the conference </li><li>The Director General of the TCRA for the closing of the event.</li></ul>
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<strong>6. AoB</strong><br>
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There was no any other business but we are happy to here some feedback on the above for the OC in general.
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