Proceedings of The First EthCITA E-Mail Conference on Community-Wide Networking Strategy, Ethiopics Software and Role of Information Technology in Addressing Community Issues


Date: October 31- November 3, 1994

Place: On-Board EEDN (Ethiopian E-Mail Distribution Network)

Organizer: Ethiopian Computing & Information Technology Association, Inc. (EthCITA)

Editors: Abraham Lakew, Amha Asfaw, Samuel Kinde and Yitna Firdyiwek


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword ............................................................... Editorial Board

Key-Note Address ..................................... Ato Terrefe Ras-Work

Session I (Monday, October 31, 1994)

1) Prospects for Upgrading Ethiopian Network to the Internet .................................................................................... Lishan Adam

2) The Application of the World-Wide Web (WWB) ................................................. Tsehay Demeke and Daniel Yakob

3) Personalized Key-Board Definition ........................... Amha Asfaw

4) The Challenge of Windows and Ethiopics Languages ............................................................................. Fekade S. Mesfin

Session II (Tuesday, November 1, 1994)

1) Providing Network Services to the Ethiopian Community .................................................................................. Grum Ketema

2) Regional Electronic Communication Projects Targeting Ethiopia .................................................................................... Lishan Adam

3) System for Ethiopic Representation in ASCII (SERA) ................................................. Yitna FirdYiwek and Daniel Yakob

4) Introducing the Ethiopic Script to the X Windows System .................................................................................. Yonas Fisseha

Session III (Wednesday, November 2, 1994)

1) Community-Wide Networking Strategy (Prospects and Opportunities) ............................................................................... Abraham Lakew

2) The Ethiopian Multi-Media PC ........................ Fisseha Mekuria

3) Need for Standardization of Ethiopian Script . Abass B. Alamnehe

Session IV (Thursday, November 3, 1994)

1) Role of E-Mail in Supporting Research at Addis Ababa University ................................................................................... Ermias Dagne

2) Principles for an Ethiopics Text Editor

.................................................... Daniel Yakob and Yonas Fisseha

3) Ethiopian Society and Technology: Lessons from History for New Frontiers ............................................................ Tsegaye Tegenu.

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