Title: ICT and education in Ethiopia

Biography:

Yosef Geberab is working in Yosef technology solution as G / manager.

Abstract

Ethiopia has been striving in devising various strategies that assist it in gearing towards achieving this goal. Among the strategies that exist is delivering quality, equitable accessible and relevant education to its citizens. This was taken as a panacea to the problems. Far areas of the country were suffered a lot due to lack of qualified and competent teachers, laboratory equipment and reference materials. It’s had been a very challenging task to address more that 75% of student  in different education issues Due to these. The government has made a reform in the education sector. the need for these reform was targeted in tacking  problem related to the shortage  of qualified and experienced teachers at all level , lack of instructional aids , laboratories and  the required chemicals  and apparatuses, lack of ICT centers  and poor curricular orientation have been hampering the access, relevance, equality and quality  of education in Ethiopia for decades. As part of education reform the government has started to implement education satellite program by deploying and installing different ICT accessories to receive and send signals from central station to each school at every corner of the country through VSAT communication. As the ICT domination in our day to day life is increasing. the Ethiopia government convinced to utilize its  opportunity for improving quality of education by introducing  Plasma Television learning Media  in high schools which are located in different and very far a part of country .in order to increase the quality of education throughout the country .the government has implemented education satellite television  broadcast program and proved through the impact assessment made by different stakeholder that  there is an  interesting  and promising improvement  in the quality of education throughout the country. Now a day our company collaborate with government developing ICT sector in education and social life. Today more than 36000 PLASMA TV are installed throughout the country in secondary schools. ICT has now playing a vital role in education sector of in Ethiopia.