Tanzania, Nov. 28 -- Arusha. President Samia Suluhu Hassan has challenged record keepers to go digital.

She said here yesterday that days of retrieving records in files and bulky documents are gone.

President Hassan added that technological advancement in record keeping would improve efficiency, especially in the public sector.

"The manual system was vulnerable to loss of records," she said when she opened a meeting of the records and archives professionals.

The annual meeting at the Arusha International Conference Centre (AICC) has been organised by the Tanzania Records and Archives Management Professionals Association (Trampa).

The Head of State said loss of records in government offices has been fuelled by continued use of the man...