Abstract: In today’s global economies, Geographic Information System (GIS) assisted by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have emerged to be agents of changes in the way people conduct their business and organizations have continued to re-engineering their business to accommodate these vital technologies. This wind of change ought to permeate every business sector if these technologies are to help alleviate poverty in emerging economies. Consequently, through productive, the entrepreneurs do not get good value of who needs what they produce. They tend to be unaware of who needs what they produce (i.e. their key market), when their produce is mostly needed and how much they can sell their produce at, who can render services to their business at affordable prices, etc. even when they are aware of the key markets. These tend to be far flung cities when the cost of distribution becomes a bottleneck.
This paper, is part of an on-going public services in Morogoro as pilot Region. We propose the use of web based GIS portal to help ease the conduct of business by small scale entrepreneurs in Tanzania. We contend that these entrepreneurs could get good value of their goods and services if they could share marketing information using cost effective means that cut the cost of distribution and help them only pay for services that they can afford.
Keywords: Geographic Information System, Information and Communication Technology, Web-enabled System, database, Portal, decision support system.
Title: A Web-enabled Decision Support System for peasant farmers and small scale entrepreneur Case of Morogoro-Tanzania
Author: Rigobert Francis Buberwa
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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