Ethiopia is placing greater priorities on developing its human capital in its capacity building strategies. It is focusing on strategies to increase access to and improve the quality of education to raise productivity, competitiveness and prosperity. It is often encountered that decision makers, educators, ICT professionals, owners of ICT training centers and colleges and concerned parents find themselves asking key questions: what is the place of ICT in Ethiopia's education in today's global information-based economy? Is ICT in education in Ethiopia keeping pace with the rapidly changing world? Is the country has good models that we can follow for reform or adoption?

In today's information and knowledge-driven world, a whole set of skills for the way that students learn and teachers teach is required. These skills include "information reasoning" - a process in which reliable sources of information are identified, effectively accessed, understood, contextualized and communicated to colleagues within the education establishment. Furthermore, the teaching-learning process require teachers to have the skills necessary to collaborate, work in teams, and share information across global networks to analyze issues from a multidisciplinary perspective.

One of the principal objectives of the capacity building exercises in the national education development should be the provision of sustainable solutions for mobilizing the necessary technologies, skills and educational resources to prepare students and teachers to enter the networked world. While getting schools wired to the Internet to form a School net system is the major step, a host of other factors need to be considered, ranging from teacher training to sustainability.

When schools are connected to the Internet, teachers taught to rethink their teaching methods, and students empowered to use technology, the impact can be profound. The School net helps students to develop confidence, a sense of responsibility, the ability to work in teams, think creatively for solutions and share knowledge. ICT in the teaching-learning process shall break down the barriers between teachers and students in the classroom. These will positively result in a more collegial environment and less hierarchy.

Teachers must also be appropriately trained on use of educational CD-ROMs; the selection and management of CDs and their incorporation in their lesson plans to positively assist the teaching-learning process in schools.

This demand, therefore, calls for the preparation of educational CD-ROMs according to the Ethiopian curriculum by professionals engaged in the field to give the whole approach a local content.