This history dates back to 1957 when its predecessor; the Dar es Salaam Technical Institute was established with the main task of providing vocational training in the country.

[1] Archived 2020-11-17 at the Wayback Machine In 1957, the Dar es Salaam Technical Institute was established charged with providing vocational training.

In 1962 it became the Dar es Salaam Technical College, and in 1964 began offering courses in engineering and other related professional areas, leading to Full Technician Certificates.

[3] The India-Tanzania Center Of Excellency in ICT (ITCoEICT) was established in 2009 as a result of friendly-relation between two counties and their desire to further strengthen bilateral cooperation in academic disciplines of Information Technology, The project implementing Agencies on behalf of these two countries are Tanzania Dar es salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) and India Center For Development of Advance Computing (CDAC).

In order to realize the stated objective, the Centre engages in various professional activities in ICT including provision of video conferencing, telemedicine & e-learning facilities, High Performance Computing and conducting modular short-term proficiency courses in Information Technology.