Prof. John Wajanga Aron Kondoro studied B.Sc. (Education) at the University of Dar-Es-Salaam in 1979; he obtained M.Sc. (Physics), University of Florida at Gainesville (USA) in 1983 and Ph.D. (Physics), University of Saarbrucken, GERMANY in 1990.

Prof Kondoro has won several awards, International Atomic Energy Agency) (IAEA) fellowship for training in applications of Nuclear Physics (1981), Fellowship of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) foundation (1985), Fulbright Fellowship to the USA (1994), Research grant of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (1998).

Prof Kondoro was appointed on the UbuntuNet Alliance Board in April 2009. He worked at the Department of Physics, University of Dar-Es-Salaam from the position of Tutorial Assistant (1981) to the rank of Associate Professor in Physics in 2000. He is currently working as Principal of the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology as Principal since 1999 until to-date.

Prof. Kondoro has published more than 25 papers in local and international journals, supervised several postgraduate thesis. He has served on several advisory boards such as the Technical Committee of the National Examination Council of Tanzania (NECTA), the executive Board of the Commonwealth Association of Polytechnics in Africa (CAPA) since 2001, Vice Chairman of the Tanzania Education and Research Network (TERNET) and Chairman of the Tanzania Atomic Energy Commission.

Prof Kondoro has been involved in the formulation of several national policies and national ICT projects such as The Design and Development of  Local Area Network for the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology in 2004 whose main features  were the Design and implementation of  Optical Fibre and wireless Local Area Network covering students’ hostels, classrooms, staff offices and the administration.  Prof. Kondoro is also an associate Executive Officer on a project called ICT for Rural Development whose aim is the  provision of internet to rural Tanzania using redundant ICT infrastructures in the areas of work since 2003. Prof. Kondoro was also responsible for the organization of the 5th International Open Access Conference in 2007 in Dar es Salaam with the main focus of promotion of innovation and creativity in ICT Applications for poverty alleviation.  More than 120 delegates from 13 countries attended the conference.