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Modern Diplomacy
Published 2 days ago
As Tanzania’s tourism sector recovers from the harsh effects of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic on businesses and employment, the latest World Bank economic analysis says the country also has a unique opportunity to revamp the tourism industry to drive inclusive growth over the long term, and promote climate adaptation and mitigation.
The 16
th Tanzania Economic Update,
Transforming Tourism: Toward a Sustainable, Resilient, and Inclusive Sector notes thatthe near-cessation of tourism activities globally due to the pandemic deeply affected Tanzania’s tourism sector. Economic activity in the sector contracted sharply in 2020, resulting in job losses and business shutdowns which has had negative knock-on effects for inter-related sectors. While partial recovery is underway, business revenues and derived taxes for government still remain below pre-pandemic levels.
The new coronavirus pandemic and related lockdown measures triggered a significant increase in digital control over people in many countries. Government agencies monitor data from mobile operators on the movements and contacts of their clients, collect personal data, and make use of cameras connected to facial recognition systems and many other technologies. Members of the public are rightfully concerned about their governments’ active encroachment into what was recently their personal space.
The fight against the pandemic has merely legitimized and brought into the spotlight technologies that had already been in use around the world for years. And we can expect increased digital control to remain in effect in Russia and many other countries even after the pandemic is over.
Human error
According to Tass, a Russian news agency, around 660,073 cases of the coronavirus have officially been detected in Moscow. However, the files show only a subset of these numbers.
Eduard Lysenko, the head of Moscow Department of Information Technologies, said that during the checks, they have established that there has been no violation of the information system of the Moscow city government.
Lysenko added that the leak happened due to human error as members of staff who were processing the documents had allowed for the files to be passed on to third persons. He added that measures would follow, in which some local reports have taken to mean that there could be criminal prosecutions.