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Ethiopia is to organize a nationwide ICT competition for the second time announced the ICT Excellence Center of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

The registration for the ICT competition will remain open until the 7th of July and winners will be awarded a range of prizes it was announced.

The competition is intended to create an opportunity for people with intellectual properties to compete, promote their work and form commercial networks according to the ministry.

Ethiopia is to host an international conference on oil seeds, pulses and spices to enhance the market access of the various crops raised nationally.

The conference, organized in a collaborative effort by the Ethiopian Ministry of Trade and the Ethiopian Pulses, Oil seeds and Spices Processors Association will be held for three days from the 27th of February at the Sheraton Addis Hotel.

Ethiopia is going to host the second 2014 Ethiopian Banking and ICT Summits that will be opened on Friday, November 21, 2014 at Sheraton Addis. The Summit is going to be organized under the theme “ICT for excellence and innovation” by Cyber Africa.

Ethiopia is to invite international consultants to perform a study to facilitate the transformation of the newly corporate Ethiopian Shipping Lines and Logistics Service Enterprise.

The government has already prepared the bid documents and the Term of Reference to be made public in three weeks according to sources.

The study is expected to strengthen the management of the new enterprise to achieve a higher level of competence said the sources.

Ethiopia is looking to partner with Swiss company Social General Service to certify the quality of goods. The Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise is negotiating the deal to earn international recognition as an SGS agent to attract more business according to sources.

If the deal goes through the SGS and ECAE will each be able to evaluate the quality, safety and security of products as per national and international standards, for customers of either organization.

Accordingly imports to Ethiopia can be checked for conformity to standards at the country of origin by SGS on behalf of the ECAE while the ECAE can in turn evaluate exports from Ethiopia and the region for SGS.