A Spotlight on The Legal And Institutional Framework Governing Global ICT Advancement And Administration of Justice in Tanzania.

This Article contextualize the issues on the improvements in the effective and efficient adoption and use of digital courts for e-justice delivery in the Judiciary of Tanzania contrary to the previous study done by several scholars that e-records management systems used in the courts of Tanzania are not as effective as they are expected to be. The digital transformation of high courts in Tanzania through the IECMS triggers justice delivery more convenient, transparent, and cost-effective. The Article further address the existing legal framework structure in Tanzania and how it embraces the changes in the way judicial proceedings are handled in line with the ICT, the digitalization of court operations systems and prompt resolution to undertake. Thus, justice administration cannot be insulated from the digital revolution, especially with the technological expansion going on at the moment around the digital world. This Article further elucidate on the challenges that the court faces to the use of electronic documents instead of ‘paper’; and how this change would be treated as inevitable issues of access to ICT-justice. Therefore, this Article will also recommends the best ways in which the Judiciary of Tanzania may put modern infrastructures by allocating enough budgets to cater to costs associated with the adoption and use of ICT, train its staff in both long and short courses as well as recruit those court clerks who are computer literate and get rid of all challenges revealed by this Article.