Zanzicode is a project of the Austria based NGO ICT4D.at. We provide free education in the field of Web Development to a small number of talented and motivated students of poor background in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Our goal is to help build the personal careers of our graduates as well as to kickstart a local web development community. After getting to know the place and the people during a support project for the Zanzibits School for Film and Multimedia in 2009, we firmly believe that there is both talent and demand for professional web work in Zanzibar.

This is true especially now, as the digital gap between Africa and the rest of the world is closed a bit further by East-Africa's recent connection to broadband internet. Hey, you should have seen the asthonished faces and the following whoops of joy of our students when they experienced the live streaming of a YouTube video during our class in September 2009 after years of dealing with unreliable connections and fiddeling with download accelerators.

Graduates of the Zanzicode class are meant to act as multiplicators in this emerging market, and will help to strengthen the flow of information and enable the interaction between Zanzibar and the rest of the world through the web.

When Martin Konzett (AT) of ICT4D.at has been introduced to the Zanzibits School for Film and Multimedia during a visit to Zanzibar in 2008, he decided to support the project by organising an advanced class in the field of Web Development for a handful of Zanzibits graduates and otherwise fitting students.

After a bit of preparatory work, project Zanzibits Support was good to go in July 2009 and we consecutively sent Dan Hamm (UK) and Fritz Grabo (AT) to Zanzibar for almost 6 months of teaching. With some lessons learned and a better understanding of what is both possible and needed, we're ready to start project Zanzicode in 2010 with a few adoptions and improvements. If you're interested in our experiences during the teaching, read our summary of Zanzibits support in the first few posts of our blog.

If you want to stay up to date about Zanzicode, please visit our blog and subscribe to it. Also, check out our photostream on flickr, where we upload a few photos and videos every now and then. In case you need any photos in high resolution for printing, please contact us.

Zanzicode is partnering with these organisations:

• ICT4D.at
  Austrian Network for Information and
  Communication Technologies for Development
  
• Zanzibits
  The Zanzibits School
  for Film and Multimedia
  
• Aidnet Zanzibar
  A non-governmental, not for profit-making organisation
  registered in Zanzibar
  
• MeWe OpenSource
  A Linux training provider and
  Free & Open Source Software consulting firm
  

If you want to become a partner, please contact us - we'd love to hear from you!

The Zanzicode project is sponsored or has received donations by these organisations:

This is how you reach us online:

• Martin Konzett (AT)
  martin.konzett@ict4d.at
  Initiator, Operations
  
• Fritz Grabo (AT)
  fritz.grabo@ict4d.at
  Lecturer, Operations, Website, Blog
  
• Florian Sturm (AT)
  florian.sturm@ict4d.at
  Cooperations and Finances
  
• Salum Rashid (TZ)
  salum.rashid@zanzicode.com
  Lecturer, Blog
  

... and in case you want to send us a post card or donate your used laptop via snail-mail, here's our postal address:

ICT4D.at
zH Hr. Florian Sturm
Lerchenfelder Gürtel 48/12
1080 Wien
Austria

ICT4D.at
Austrian Network for Information and
Communication Technologies for Development

Verein zur Bewusstseinsschaffung über das Potential von
Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien für
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit (ZVR Österreich: #758627046)

Hr. Florian Sturm
Lerchenfelder Gürtel 48/12
1080 Wien
Austria