Name: Mr. John Kajiba

Title: Principal Information Technology Expert

Mr. John Kajiba, is the Foundation’s Principal IT Expert /Data Analyst, who has a B.Sc degree in Computer Science from the University of Dar es Salaam. At the Foundation, Mr. Kajiba has successfully worked on several ICT projects and facilitated the work of members of the core research team.

He is managing all data processes at ESRF; starting from questionnaire coding, data entry and data analysis by using different software like SPSS, STATA, etc. Mr. Kajiba has successfully administered various big surveys datasets including HIV survey, RPED surveys of various waves, etc. Under His guidance ESRF has embarked using handheld devices for Data collection by using ODK, CSentry etc.

He is one among the pioneers on the area of e-commerce in Tanzania as he prepared and conducted research on the area of Ecommerce. He also co-authored a book on Tanzania poverty baseline. The book shows the poverty situation in Tanzania-2000, as output of jointly work between NBS and ESRF in reviewing various household datasets like HBS1992, HRD1993, HBS2000 etc.

He is also well versed in Inmagic software database he has trained and developed several database by using the package.

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