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Ethiopia was placed in the bottom five countries on the World Wide Web Foundation’s Web Index according to a survey which ranked 61 countries on a range of criteria including the number of people online and the amount of useful content available.

The Index measures the economic, political and social impact the Internet has made on the countries.

The survey was intended to fill a need for uniform and publicly available date comparing countries and identifying areas for improvement according to Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.

The most basic question asked if people were actually connected and if they had hardware to access the web he said.

The African Fine Coffees Association (AFCA), in partnership with Ethiopia Commodity Exchange and USAID AGP-AMDe, is pleased to announce that the 2013/ 2014 Taste of Harvest (ToH) Coffee Competition will be held at the ECX Lab in Addis from 4th to 5th February, 2014.

Ethiopia’s first of its kind expressway, Addis-Adama Expressway, was inaugurated on Monday, May 5, 2014 in the presence of the Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Haile Mariam. The Expressway was built at a cost of 11.2 Billion Birr, The Ethiopian Herald reported.

The Ashegoda Wind Farm, Africa's largest wind farm inaugurated in Ethiopia on 26 October 2013.

The US$289.68 million project was built by the French company, Vergnet SA with concessional loans provided by BNP Paribas and the French Development Agency (AFD). The Ethiopian government covered 9 percent of the cost, according to Reuters.

Hawassa Industrial Park was inaugurated by Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Dessalegn, on July 13, 2016. The park was built at a cost of 250 million USD in the capital of Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples State, Hawassa.