The fifth ICT Exhibition and Conference in Ethiopia was opened last week at the Addis Ababa Exhibition Center. The Exhibition was held under the theme of ‘ICT is the Road to Development and Transformation’.
Domestic IT colleges, government agencies working in the ICT sector, training center, and international companies from China, England and Egypt engaged in the production and development of ICT products participated in the exhibition.
The exhibition offers an opportunity for consumers and producers to develop networks and to enhance experience sharing amongst countries said Debretsion Gebremichael, Minister of Communication and Information Technology.
Ethiopia was in 111th place in the International Online Service Component Index for 2010 but has managed to climb to number 80 since said Debretsion. The new placement means that Ethiopia is number four in Africa next to Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.There are plans to establish state of the art data centers to allow better information flow to individuals as well as to organization he added.
Another major goal of the sector is supporting secondary and tertiary level academic institutions to gain better access to the web according to Debretsion. The development of fiber optic transmission has meant the increase of broadband speed to 6.82GB allowing users to receive larger amounts of data at faster rates then before he explained.
Source: Ethiopia Herald
