DAR ES SALAAM, Sept. 8 -- FOR five days, the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre in Dar es Salaam became a meeting point for an idea that Tanzania can no longer afford to treat as a fashionable development slogan: innovation.

Inside the conference halls, exhibition spaces and discussion rooms of Innovation Week Tanzania 2026, government officials, researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, development partners, technology specialists and young innovators wrestled with a deceptively simple question. How does Tanzania turn its enormous pool of ideas and ambitions into solutions that create jobs, businesses, productivity and a better quality of life for its people?

It was a question that acquired even greater significance because th...