Frequently Asked Questions

TafitiPedia is a research and academic opportunity platform that helps researchers, students, institutions, and other professionals discover research opportunities, connect with experts, find jobs and events, showcase their work, and access research-related services.

TafitiPedia is designed for researchers, students, lecturers, healthcare professionals, institutions, employers, and other people or organizations involved in research, education, and professional development.

Some publicly available profiles, jobs, events, institutions, and other information can be viewed without an account. An account is required for features such as managing your profile, saving opportunities, posting certain content, requesting consultations, and accessing account-specific services.

Yes. You can update your profile information, research interests, qualifications, publications, awards, and other available profile information from your account.

Create an account on TafitiPedia and complete your researcher profile with relevant academic, professional, research, and contact information. A complete profile makes it easier for other users and institutions to discover your expertise.

You can include information such as your academic background, professional experience, research interests, research fields, publications, awards, honors, and other relevant professional information.

Researcher profiles can be discoverable through TafitiPedia's public research and expert discovery features. Only information that you choose to provide as part of your public profile is intended to be displayed publicly.

Keep your profile complete and up to date. Clearly describe your research interests, expertise, publications, qualifications, and professional experience so that potential collaborators, institutions, and consultation seekers can understand your areas of expertise.

Expert Finder helps users discover researchers and professionals based on their research fields, expertise, and available profile information.

Find a suitable consultant through TafitiPedia, review their available profile information and expertise, and submit a consultation request with details about what you need assistance with.

Consultation requests may relate to areas such as research methodology, study design, data analysis, academic writing, publication, research planning, professional development, or other areas within the consultant's expertise.

Yes. TafitiPedia supports research-related interactions involving both individual users and institutions, depending on the services and features available to the institution.

A consultation request can move through different stages, including pending, reviewed, accepted, in progress, completed, rejected, or cancelled. The exact progression depends on the request and the participants involved.

TafitiPedia provides the platform for discovering experts and managing consultation requests. The actual professional consultation is provided by the selected consultant.

TafitiPedia can be used to share research and academic-related opportunities, including research positions, academic roles, research assistant opportunities, professional opportunities, and other relevant vacancies.

Eligible users can create a job posting from their account. Depending on your subscription plan and available job tokens, a token may be required to publish a job.

Open the job listing and follow the application instructions provided by the organization or person who posted the opportunity. Application procedures may differ between listings.

Yes. Registered users can save available job opportunities for easier access later.

Job visibility depends on the information and application deadline associated with the listing. TafitiPedia may also automatically stop displaying opportunities after their applicable availability period.

TafitiPedia can feature research and academic events such as conferences, workshops, seminars, training sessions, webinars, and other relevant professional events.

Eligible users can create an event from their account and provide details such as the title, description, date, location, registration information, and event link where applicable.

Depending on your subscription plan and available event tokens, publishing an event may require an event token.

Yes. Registered users can save events so they can easily return to them later.

Where eligible, an existing event can be republished rather than creating a duplicate listing. Republishing may require an available event token.

Yes. Institutions can have profiles containing information such as their name, description, location, website, research services, research areas, awards, and other relevant information.

Institution management is available to an authorized institutional manager when the institution has the appropriate account and subscription access.

Eligible institutions can use TafitiPedia to publish research-related jobs and events, subject to the applicable subscription plan, posting limits, and token requirements.

Yes. Institutional accounts can support members and authorized management features depending on the institution's subscription and account configuration.

Yes. TafitiPedia provides different plans designed for individual researchers and institutions. Available features, limits, tokens, and management capabilities depend on the selected plan.

Explorer is the free plan for users who want to create a profile and access selected TafitiPedia features with a limited number of included tokens and usage limits.

The Professional Researcher plan provides additional features for individual researchers, including enhanced profile visibility, a verified badge where applicable, advanced discovery features, analytics, and increased usage allowances.

Institution plans provide additional capabilities for organizations, including institution management features, member management, research services, and increased limits depending on the selected plan.

Yes. Available upgrade or subscription options depend on your current plan, payment status, and the plans currently offered by TafitiPedia.

Tokens are usage credits that can be required for selected TafitiPedia actions, such as publishing jobs, publishing events, or making certain consultation-related requests, depending on the applicable feature.

Some subscription plans include an annual token allowance. The number and type of tokens available depend on your plan.

Where available, users can purchase additional token packages for supported activities. The available packages and prices are shown in the token section of your account.

No. TafitiPedia can distinguish between different token types, such as job, event, and consultation tokens. A token is used for the activity for which it was issued.

Yes. Your account's token section can show your available balance and relevant token transactions or usage information.

TafitiPedia supports electronic mobile-money payments through the available payment options presented during checkout.

Available payment methods may include supported Tanzanian mobile-money services such as M-Pesa, Airtel Money, Mixx by Yas, and Halotel, subject to current payment-provider availability.

A subscription becomes active after the payment process has been successfully confirmed. A payment request alone does not necessarily mean that the subscription has been activated.

If payment is unsuccessful or remains unconfirmed, the relevant paid feature or subscription will not become active until the required payment is successfully confirmed.

First check that you are using the correct login credentials. If you continue to experience problems, contact TafitiPedia support with enough information for the support team to identify and assist with your account.

You can contact the TafitiPedia support team and describe the problem, including the page or feature where it occurred and any relevant information that can help us investigate it.

We welcome feedback about the platform, its features, and user experience. You can contact the TafitiPedia team through the available support channels.

For support and general enquiries, you can contact the TafitiPedia team at [email protected].