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Building
an Ethiopian Information Society
ICT
professionals should note the importance of keeping themselves
up-to-date. It implies more than just keeping abreast of the
latest ICT developments; it involves keeping fully informed
about the progress and interest of the organization for which
one works and its suppliers and customers....
The
Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority to Decentralize its
Billing System
The
Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority is planning to decentralize
its water billing system at branch level in order to ensure
timely collection of dues from its clientele......
The
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering & the
Ethiopian Telecom Corporation Sign Agreement
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
of the Faculty of Technology, Addis Ababa University (AAU),
signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ethiopian Telecommunications
Corporation (ETC) in December 2002 for a bilateral cooperation
in the Conference Hall of the Technology Faculty at its Amist
Kilo Campus that could involve both parties in many areas
of endeavours.......
Guest's
Corner
Dr.Eng. Mohamed Abdo.
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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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