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ICT
in Ethiopia - Whose Child?
It was
reported at the meeting that the final draft of the ICT Policy
has been submitted to the Council of Ministers for approval.
A key question as to the validity of the Workshop was asked
if that was then, the case. The Workshop continued its deliberations
on the ICT Policy with the assurances of the representative
from the Ministry of Capacity Building that important points
of the recommendation would be incorporated in the final draft
of the ICT Policy.
High Availability -Networking
High availability
in networks is a function of the application as well as the
whole network between a client workstation and a service out
in the network. While the mean time between failures of individual
components is a factor, network availability is determined
mostly by the network design.
Guests' Corner
Computer
Science Education at the AAU
"I think we still have a lot to do to make the country
the user of this new technology. The first thing is to establish
strong ICT educational institutions to produce skilled manpower.
" Dr. Yirsaw Ayalew
Adaptive
Technology Centre for the Blind
"It is our conviction that the blind should have equal
access to public as well educational institutions' libraries,
websites, Internet cafes, computer training centres, vocational
institutions, colleges and universities. All these entities
and …"
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Editors’
Note
One of
the most serious problems facing us when it comes to issues
involving ICTs for development is that they are too often
unrelated to what is really going on and what people in the
real world actually need. What we have to keep in mind at
all times is that ICT is not an end in itself, but a tool
that can help find concrete solutions to peoples problems
and needs. In the end what is important is not ICT but the
way it is used. It is not enough to provide access to the
technology, however important good access at a reasonable
price may be, what we need to do is to strengthen people's
abilities to use that technology to the full. More important
yet, we must be able to appropriate technologies and turn
them into tools that will help us find solutions to concrete
problems. ICT applications must be firmly rooted in our people's
local reality, our organizations, our customs and our culture.
We need
policies and guidelines that would be best suited to ensuring
that ICTs will produce positive benefits for our people by
providing concrete solutions to our real problems. The ICT
policy will be most conducive to human development, if it
is targeted at , among other things, offering concrete solutions,
localizing globalized communication, and generating new knowledge.
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