1. Early life and education

2. Career

3. Community engagements and Projects

4. Awards

5. References

She is also a dean at the College of Science at the University of Bagamoyo, lecturing on ICT.^[2]

Early life and education

Funja was born in 1981 and raised in Dar es Salaam. She attended the Kifungilo and Shaaban Robert School and the University of Dar es Salaam from where she received a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering in 2005 and a master's of engineering degree in Communication and Information Systems from Huazhong University of science and technology in 2008.

Career

Funja worked with Huawei Technologies International as a Senior Product Manager in Shenzhen, China PRC. She is experienced with wireless telecommunication technologies and pioneered projects in various countries and regions including China, Kenya, Rwanda, Madagascar, Zambia  and Tanzania. Funja has been actively involved in Rotaract and served as the Club President when she was a student at the University of Dar es Salaam 2005.^[2]

In 2012 Funja returned to Tanzania and engaged in academia by lecturing at the University of Bagamoyo in science courses. She quickly Funja to the level of Dean at the college of science and environmental sciences ^[3]

Funja is a Mandela Washington Fellow ^[4]- a President Obama Young African Leaders Initiative Program (YALI),where she attended Public Management Course from Syracuse University in New York.

Funja has always seen the opportunity to use information and communication as a solution to challenges facing the Tanzania agricultural sector. With this focus she founded Agrinfo company limited ^[5] . Agrinfo initial idea was to be a google for agricultural information in Tanzania ^[6] and it has pivoted over the years to include technologies such as drone for agriculture ^[7] where Funja is a trained drone pilot. Funja is the current managing Director of Agrinfo company limited.

Community engagements and Projects

In her new Project known as Dropwall ^[8], Funja Said "As a woman and an engineer, I want to use predictive analytics and machine learning to help District Planning Officers predict the impact of education budgets on the school dropout rates among girls so that we can reduce these dropout rates and help girls get an education."^[9]

Funja has co-founded several startups in technology, innovation and girls empowerment  She codes for change ^[10]aims to transform Information Technology educational opportunities for girls in secondary schools ages 13-19 through its training and mentorship programs and young women in Colleges and Universities ages 20-26.  

Funja has also chaired the Buni Divaz community  a group of empowered Tanzanian girls part of the Buni Hub community under the TANZICT and COSTECH umbrella ^[11]

Awards

Funja has received several awards including Malkia wa Nguvu - 2017 - Science and Technology. A regional regional winner of the 2013 ICT4Ag Conference Hackathon ^[12]. In 2016 she received an innovator award by the Tanzanian Ministry of Communication for participation in the TanzICT project ^[13].

She is also recognized by her innovation to help women in agriculture by the UN Women in the Young innovators category in 2014 at the ^[14]

References

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