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\"\"I strive to advocate that\u00a0multilateral organizations engaged in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) should pursue their missions with a deeper understanding of nuanced issues beyond technology advancements; and this by driving thinking and advocating practices so that innovation and technology advancements are informed by their social and human impacts when addressing developmental challenges.<\/p>\n

– Interested on themes at the intersection of Technology and Political Governance<\/a> demonstrated through evidence-based doctoral research<\/a> on Information and Communication Technologies’ linkages to democratic governance and sustainable development in the context of authoritarian regimes to obtain a PhD in Governance and Policy Analysis at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance.<\/p>\n

– Holder of an\u00a0MBA in Management of Technology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)<\/a> with an educational background in computer engineering and over 15 years of experience related to Information Technology with solid business understanding<\/a><\/p>\n

– Served ITU, the United Nations’ specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Information Services as Project Lead, Web and Internet Specialist and also as Strategy and Policy Analyst in the Corporate Strategy Division.<\/p>\n

– Interested in a broad range of issues at the intersection of Technology and Society in particular E-governance<\/a>, ICT-enabled Innovation and Societal Transformations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

– Written (often quoted) paper on E-government in Africa<\/a>, multilingualism on the Internet.<\/p>\n

– \u200bLed authoring of a business plan for seed funding a start-up Givster.com<\/a>\u200b, a web-based cost effective way to send remittance as part of Entrepreneurship & Innovation of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).<\/p>\n

– Founded and directed CyberEthiopia.com<\/a> with a vision to valorize locally relevant content in Amharic (Ethiopian language) and promote ICT4D. Launched in the early years of the World Wide Web (1995), the impactful community portal won the first prize<\/a> of the African Information Society Initiative in 2005 and was quoted among ICT success stories in Africa<\/a> at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)\u200b.<\/p>\n

Since May 2006, the most popular Ethiopian web sites (including CyberEthiopia) and several blogs have been blocked across the nation. The apparent objective was to prevent the dissemination of information that is critical of the regime.\u00a0Following the political protests which have swept the nation since November 2015, the then regime in Ethiopia had\u00a0routinely shutdown\u00a0<\/a>the Internet,\u00a0restricted access to Social Media<\/a>\u00a0and indicated its keenness to\u00a0control Social Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On 22nd June 2018, the new Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed, hailed as the ‘Gorbachev of Ethiopia’, announced that his government has unblocked 264 websites including CyberEthiopia.com after 12 years of blockage\u00a0<\/a>.This was attested by the OONI\u2019s thorough\u00a0verifications of our website\u2019s unblocking <\/a>and reflected in Freedom on the Net 2019 where\u00a0Ethiopia recorded the largest gains<\/a>\u00a0following the\u00a0loosened restrictions by the New Prime Minister.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I strive to advocate that\u00a0multilateral organizations engaged in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) should pursue their missions with a deeper understanding of nuanced issues beyond technology advancements; and this by driving thinking and advocating practices so that innovation and technology advancements are informed by their social and human impacts when addressing developmental challenges. … <\/p>\n

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