ICT and Development in Tanzania: A Matter of Priorities, has been accepted by the World Bank for the World Congress on Communication and Development Abstract Fieldwork was undertaken in Tanzania, East Africa, in the summer of 2005, to assess how Information Communication Technology (ICT) could best be utilized for the country’s development goals, with a particular focus on children who are most vulnerable to poverty. A key component of the assessment is a comparative discourse analysis between members of the communities of Moshi, Kilimanjaro, Arusha and Dar es Salaam and the Tanzania National Information and Communications Technologies Policy (2003). The interviewees were selected purposefully in order to assess the potential of ICT to enhance Tanzanian development goals. Through discourse analysis, a number of key ICT opportunity areas were identified. These included: Tanzania nurturing, growing and establishing its peace credentials for the 2007 International Year of Peace through Tourism; enhancement of community agriculture and ecological education and projects; and the improved provision of education and services. Of these, the key priority identified was to support, dovetail and enhance government, NGO, and CBO HIV/AIDS initiatives through Tanzania’s poverty monitoring system using applications and methodologies that produce a statistical analysis of their collective data to make informed decisions on HIV/AIDS programs. Click here for full paper