| ICT Focus Magazine, March - April 2008 Issue |
| In this Issue: The New Face of the Internet
- How Mobile Technology is Facilitating Development Work - NOVATECH 2008, Building the future together - Interview with Dr. Jabulani Dhliwayo of NEPAD COUNCIL - Ethiopia on the Path of an ICT Milestone - Increasing Communities Access to Information and Communication Services - Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) for Networks (Part I) - Introduction to PHP - Alchemy World Projects - Free Software - Top 10 websites - Editors’ Selection of Ethiopian Websites - Computer History: The Worst Computer Viruses of All Time |
| Ethio 2000 ICT Exhibition |
 A three days ICT Exhibition, organized by the Ethiopian ICT Development Agency, was held from Monday 7 to Wednesday 9 April 2008 at the Addis Ababa Exhibition Centre. |
| January - February 2008 Issue |
 In this Issue: NOVATECH 2008 - The Telecom Sector in East Africa and Indian Ocean - ICT for Community Development - Google Introduces New Views for Searches - How to Get Your PC to Boot at a Scheduled Time? - Principles of Secure Design - Part II - Why Should You Buy a Desktop Instead of Laptop? |
| November - December 2007 Issue |
 In this Issue: IPv4 Depletion - The Timid Beginning of Community Radio - Interview with Dr. Dawit Bekele - Applications to Bring Your Business to the Next Level - Buying Guide - WiMAX Technology - Principles of Secure Design - ICT News - ICT Books Review - Essential Buys
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DED's All-Africa Conference Taking Place in Addis |
 Addis Ababa 16 October 2007 - The German Development Service (DED) is holding its All-Africa Conference in Addis Ababa from 14 to 17 October 2007. Ethiopia is the biggest Partner Country for DED worldwide with fast growing numbers of Development Experts. Eight out of the thirty-five German experts are currently working in the Information and Communication assisted Development (ICTAD) Program.
The ICTAD Project is intended to assist Ethiopian communities to improve their livelihood through the use of appropriate ICT that facilitates increased access to markets, development information as well as public and private services.
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| September - October 2007 Issue |
 In this issue:
WITFOR 2007 - CIDEV: “Sponsoring creative ideas at community level” - Who Should Own the Domain Name Ethiopia.com? - OneWebDay: Celebrating Online Life - Information Security: Protection Against Computer Hacking - IPod: The Tiny Music Player - ICT News - Business Solutions - Essential Buys - ICT Books: Editor's Selection - Directory
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| OneWebDay Celebration in Ethiopia |
Addis Ababa 15 September 2007 - ICT Focus Magazine in collaboration with the Ethiopian Information Technology Professionals Association (EITPA) is coordinating the celebration of OneWebDay in Ethiopia.
CyberCafés in Addis Ababa will make available connected computers to the public at a discounted rate on 22 and 23 September 2007. Volunteers (mainly University and College students) will help people who are new to the Internet in creating their accounts and show them how to use the web. In addition, a presentation on OneWebDay will be made on September 22 at the General Assembly of EITPA. |
| HA Awards for Innovative Use of New Media in Africa |
 ICT Focus website was among the two finalists in the Corporate Category of the New Media Awards at the annual Highway Africa media conference at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. The awards ceremony was broadcasted live on SABC Africa on Tuesday 11 September 2007. The awards highlight the new media tools used in the information revolution that is taking place on the continent, despite technology challenges. Read More... |
| ICT Africa Conference and Tutorial Program |
ICT Africa event is moved from Nairobi, Kenya, to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It will be held during the second week of February, 2008. ICT Africa conference and tutorial program will bring together engineers, scientists, developers, government leaders, corporate managers, educators, financiers and project representatives from all over Africa and abroad. Read More |
| Office Open XML Enjoys Positive Momentum - Microsoft |
HANA -
31/08/2007
Microsoft Corporation has welcomed the current debate on the proposed global standardization of the Ecma Office Open Extensible Markup Language (Open XML) as positive and good.has been enjoying positive momentum and widespread use, according to Microsoft Corporation. Read More |
| WITFOR 2007 - Press Conference |
 Addis Ababa 21 August 2007 - The National Organizing Committee together with the International Steering Committee of WITFOR 2007 held a press conference on Monday 20th August 2007 at the Hilton Hotel. |
| Upcoming Issue of ICT Focus Magazine |
 The upcoming issue of ICT Focus magazine is scheduled to hit the newsstands in September 2007. |
| Spio-Garbrah Outlines 4 Pillars of ICT |
HANA 13/07/2007
The chief executive officer of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), Dr Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, has outlined four basic pillars of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Read More |
| World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) 2007 |
22-24 August, 2007,
UNECA Conference Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Recognizing the developmental opportunities offered by digital technologies and the need for developing countries and developed countries to collaborate to exploit such opportunities, the World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) 2007 is organized by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and hosted by the Federal Government of Ethiopia, in cooperation with the Ethiopian ICT Development Agency (EICTDA), the Ethiopian Information Technology Professional Association (EITPA) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
The purpose of the conference is to help implement information development strategies and projects in developing countries. Significantly, it will take the World Summit on the Information Society's (WSIS) Plan of Action a step forward, by converting policy statements to actual, implemental projects that should help developing countries to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals. |
| Web2forDev 2007 Conference |
Sep. 24, 2007 to Sep. 27, 2007,
Rome, Italy
The Web2forDev 2007 Conference is not another conference about technology. It is the first conference about how development actors and especially Southern ones get access to and use new tools. It is about understanding what difference new tools can make to the ways that individuals and institutions communicate and apply knowledge to development problems. It is expected that Web 2.0 greatly contributes to knowledge sharing but the impact is not yet assessed. Read More |
| Rwanda to host Connect Africa summit |
HANA
12/07/2007
Kigali, the capital city of Rwanda is to host this years Connect Africa Summit that is to be held from October 29-30 2007. Read More |
| eChallenges e-2007 Conference and Exhibition |
Oct. 24, 2007 to Oct. 26, 2007,
The Hague,
Netherlands
This is the seventeenth in a series of annual technology research conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 600 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt and good practice in areas of applied Information Communication Technologies (ICT). Read More |
| GKP Unveils "Event on the Future" |
| Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) launched the 3rd Global Knowledge Conference (GK3) on 5 February 2007 at a reception in Kuala Lumpur. Themed "Emerging People, Emerging Markets, Emerging Technologies" GK3 will be a dynamic GKP Event focused on the Future. GK3 will explore concrete solutions and possibilities within the interplay, interface and interweaving of issues related to the Knowledge for Development (K4D) and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) in the context of our globally evolving societies, economies and technologies worldwide. Read More |
| INFOCOM 2004 International ICT Exhibition and Forum |
 Addis Ababa Exhibition Center
July 01 -04, 2004
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| Special WSIS News |
10 - 12 December 2003, Geneva
World Summit on Information Society Officially Opened
The inaugural ceremony was attended by leaders from nearly 200 countries including 60 heads of states and governments, high delegates of the International community & Representatives of the civil society.
Interview with Kakuna N.Kerina, Executive Director of Open Society initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
Statement by State Minister of Infrastructure, Ethiopia
Statement by ITU Secretary-General Yoshio Utsumi
Statement by Jorma Ollila, Chairman and CEO of Nokia |
Building an Ethiopian Information Society
At this stage of the development of ICT, it is apt to ask: Is Ethiopia building the capacities it needs to integrate itself in the global information economy? It is our firm belief that Ethiopia should offer its citizens more or less access to ICT including not only the World Wide Web – WWW – but also many of its current and planned projects should demonstrate that it is making preparations to build the Information Society – training and workshops that encompass information science specialists, professionals from other disciplines and growing awareness of national policy makers. |
Writing Competition
On the occasion of its first anniversary, ICT Focus is conducting a Writing Competition that focuses on Information and Communications Technology specially for students. |
| Guest's Corner |
 Education or providing information is the most critical thing that a government can do to advance its civilization. An Information Society is a society that has made it very easy for its members to access information that is relevant to them and is timely.
Noah Samara, Chairman and CEO WorldSpace Corporation |
ICT in Schools
There is an increasing awareness by teachers and students in some high schools in Addis Ababa about the need to acquire basic ICT education with a view to having access to knowledge and coping with the advances of information and communications technologies. |
Narrowing the Digital Divide
In the opinion of the Regional Conference, narrowing the digital divide must go with the development of telecommunication infrastructure suited to the need of African people. |
ICT Training Revisited: Debates on Ethics and Standardization
At the moment, there are no clear measures of quality performance being developed and clear guidelines are lacking to maintain and develop quality in this field. |
Hardware to back up your data
You shouldn’t rely on your hard drive as the only means of saving your data. Fires, floods, computer viruses, human error, and theft can destroy your hard drive and computer, but if you back up your data on a regular basis, you can recover your losses quickly. We’ll walk you through the safety drill and demonstrate the merits of various hardware products that may save you from having to re-create your important information from scratch. |
Strengthening ICT Training in Ethiopia
It was in the 1990’s that computer training centres mushroomed in every corner of the city in a similar way that characterized the opening of typing schools in the early 1960s’. Many young boys and girls thought that a mere testimony in software application would open the narrow door to employment. The rest who were rushing to obtain computer training were professionals such as engineers, accountants, administrators, managers, secretaries, and other professionals for better opportunities and future career advancement. |
The ABCs of wireless technology
"Wireless" means transmitting signals over invisible radio waves instead of wires. Television remote controls were the first wireless devices to become a part of everyday life. Now the cordless keyboard and mouse, PDAs, and digital and cellular phones are widely used. |
How to give quality training
Computer instructors should not train the trainees just “which buttons to press”. Such training is narrow, shallow and for only short-term value, if any. |
| This Year’s AISI Media Awards Winners Announced
 On May 13th 2003, ICT Focus magazine received the first-ever AISI Media Award, organized by the Economic Commission for Africa, for which over 80 applications were submitted from all over Africa, in recognition of its outstanding work in print media that promotes the Information Society.
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How the Internet Changed my Life
Ever since I first used the Internet four years ago I’ve been in love and things have never been the same. What thing? Everything! Suddenly the rest of the world became only a few keystrokes and clicks away. |
The influencing factors of ICT Development in Ethiopia
"Ethiopia has definitely produced a competitive and marketable workforce in the ICT field during the last three decades. The pace, as in the rest of the world was not that fast."
Ato Solomon Berhanu |
The Role and impact of Digital Library
Digital Library is defined as an organization providing resources, including the specialized staff, for selecting, structuring, accessing, interpreting, distributing, and preserving collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities. |
BAMAKO 2002 - African Regional Preparatory Meeting for the World Summit on the Information Society
The African Regional Conference - Bamako 2002 was held in preparation for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) that is scheduled to take place in Geneva in 2003 and Tunis in 2005 to formulate a common vision and understanding of the global information society to help bridge the digital divide. It was organized ... |
The Evolutionary Development of ICT in Ethiopia
Computers were introduced into Ethiopia nearly half a century ago in the early 1960's. Organizations that introduced computers into their operations in the early period of the introduction of the technology included the Ethiopian Airlines, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Ethio-Djibouti Railway Company, Ethiopian Electric Light and Power Authority, Central Statistical Office, Imperial Board of Telecommunications, the Municipality of Addis Ababa, Ministry of Finance, the Imperial Ethiopian Air Force and the Haile Seleassie I University. |
How to choose your ICT Service Provider
Once the need for an ICT service is established, the Management should be cautious to select the service provider. At the outset, managers have to learn a lot about the processes of choosing an ICT service provider in order to get satisfactory services. |
ICT companies on the rise in Addis
It can be noted that out of the total companies listed in the directory, 102 or 80.3% of them include training in their services while 61 or 51.2 % conduct sales activities. |
 Guest’s Corner
“Electrical Engineering does not only play a key role in the development of ICT, but we can neither perceive Electrical Engineering in isolation from ICT nor can ICT grow without it as its base. “ Dr. Mohamed Abdo |
God on the Internet
The medium that is transforming shopping, research and education is now dramatically changing the way some people worship. Almost anything you do at church or synagogue, you can now do at your computer terminal - from taking part in discussions of scripture to singing along with an online Jewish cantor. Religion's presence on the Web is expanding exponentially. |
