| ICT Focus Named SABC Highway Africa Awards Finalist for Second Consecutive Year |
 Addis Ababa, 04 September 2008 - ICT Focus, the Ethiopian magazine that
exclusively focuses on Information and Communications Technology, has been
selected as finalist in the Corporate category of the SABC Highway Africa Digital
Journalism Awards 2008 Competition. More... |
| ICT R&D Strategy and Guideline Dsicussed |
| Addis
Ababa, 28 August 2008 – EICTDA organized a two days
Workshop to discuss “ICT R&D Strategy”
and “The National ICT R&D Guideline”
at Ghion Hotel Conference Hall from 26th to 27th August
2008. More... |
| ETC Offices Invaded by Mobile Telephone Service Seekers |
Addis Ababa, 09 August 2008 –
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) began
sales of SIM cards, after an interruption of new lines
provision for several months.
More.. |
| 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. |
DED's All-Africa Conference Takes 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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| 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 |
