Ministry of Information, Youth, Culture and Sports

Ministry of Information,
Youth, Culture and Sports
Ministry overview
Wizara ya Habari, Vijana, Utamaduni na Michezo (Swahili)
Jurisdiction	Tanzania
Headquarters	Dar es Salaam
Minister responsible	Fenella Mukangara
Deputy Minister responsible	Juma Nkamia
Ministry executive	Sethi Kamuhanda, Permanent Secretary

The Ministry of Information, Culture and Sports is a government ministry of Tanzania. The ministry was founded in 2006 by presidential notice, merging extant sections of sports, information, and culture into one functional ministry.^[1]

Duties

See also: Right to science and culture

Is duty of Ministry of Information, Youth, Culture and Sports digitize, preserve and make them available and accessible public domain works for every citizen. Tanzania has millions of public domain works (books, pictures, music and films) that belongs to the public domain and since there is not restrictions or copyright on them and all these works can be accessed, copied and enjoyed by its citizen in order to accomplish human right of access to science and culture make more egalitarian access to culture in every country no matter the social status of the cirizens.^[2]^[3]

Organization and operations

Departments of the Ministry include the following:^[4]

Information Development

Department is responsible to collect, write and disseminate government statements; to collect and disseminate news and news material; to organize government news conferences and news briefings; to monitor and coordinate news bureaus, radio news and television news, and other information-related duties.^[5]

Culture Development

Traditions and culture; arts, music, cinema; languages^[6]
Bagamoyo Art College^[7]

Sports Development

Registration of leagues and associations; planning and construction of stadiums and sports facilities; stadium management; sports infrastructure development.
Tanzania Football Federation^[8]

Policy & Planning

Policy and planning

Administration

Administration

References

External links

Official website

Tanzanian Government Ministries

State Ministries	Environment Good Governance Investment and Empowerment Public Service Management Regional Administration and Local Government Policy, Co-ordination and Parliamentary Affairs Social Relations and Co-ordination Union Affairs

Ministries	Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives Communication, Science and Technology Community Development, Gender and Children Defence and National Service East African Cooperation Education and Vocational Training Energy and Minerals Finance and Economic Affairs Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Health and Social Welfare Home Affairs Industry and Trade Information, Youth, Culture and Sports Justice and Constitution Affairs Labour and Employment Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Developments Livestock and Fisheries Development Natural Resources and Tourism Transport Water and Irrigation Works

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