selam all,

This event should be of interest to all Ethiopian creators of new media
content, communities (mailing lists, chat rooms, etc), and e-commerce.
It will be an occasion to get to know each other, share experiences,
find
ways to collaborate, so that together we may take the next leaps in
Ethiopian cyber-presence. Please forward this invitation to anyone you
think could benefit from it.

	-nemo-

Nemo Semret
Ethiopian Scientific Society Board Member
http://comet.columbia.edu/ESS
ESS Telecom '99 -- New Media and Telecom Reform

ESS Telecom '99

Conference on new media (content, communities and commerce) and telecom reform.
  • Submission info for presenters
  • Mailing list (updates, program, dicsussions)
  • Topics

    • Call for participation

    The Ethiopian Scientific Society is proud to present its fourth annual conference on telecommunications, to be held on FRIDAY OCT 1ST, 1999 at the World Bank, Room J 1-050, 701 18th Street, NW Washington, DC 20433.

    Reflecting the rapid growth in the area, this year's full-day conference will consist of two workshops, respectively on new media and telecommunications policy reform. Presenters are invited to submit a short abstract (now more than 250 words) by SEPTEMBER 1, 1999 to ess99@egroups.com. Accepted presenters will be asked to submit a short paper and/or presentation slides by September 21.

    Mailing list

    To join a mailing list for conference updates, program, announcements, as well as discussions before and after the conference, send an empty message to ess-pub-subscribe@egroups.com. After subscribing, you can write to the whole list by sending messages to ess-pub@egroups.com

    To contact the organizing comittee directly, please write to ess99@egroups.com.

    Submissions

    Submissions should be emailed to ess99@egroups.com and must contain
  • author(s) name, affiliation and brief biography
  • contact information (email and telephone)
  • a brief (max 250 word) abstract of the paper and/or presentation
  • which workshop the submission is for (see below)

    • Contributions must fit into one of the following categories.

    Topics

    NEW MEDIA WORKSHOP: Content, Communities and e-Commerce

    ESS invites pioneers to share their experiences in creating, operating or managing
  • New Media Content: web-zines, arts, culture, science, news sites.
  • Communities: mailing lists, chats, and other on-line communities
  • Electronic Commerce: business which include an on-line presence for sales, transactions, advertising, support, or any core activity
    • that are related to Africa, aimed at, or created by Africans. The goal of the workshop will be to not only learn from each other, but also to begin building a network of on-line creators, professionals and entrepreneurs in order to take advantage of synergies and strategic complementarities.

    In the last couple of years, the African online community worldwide has grown to include the full and evolving range of media and services offered by the Internet. Internet content and services are all about the whole of many efforts being greater than the sum of the parts, and this workshop hopes to leverage the same principle to help cyber-Africans shift into the next gear.

    TELECOM REFORM WORKSHOP: Rethinking Ethiopian Telecoms

    Continuing the efforts of ESS Telecom '96, '97, and '98, this workshop will bring together a wide range of expertise and opinions on telecommunications technology, policy, infrastructure planning, economics, as well as service providers, academics, and other professionals.

    This year's workshop will focus not only on

  • proposed solutions (including equipment, software, and services)
  • practical experiences and lessons
  • surveys, statistics
  • analytical studies
    • but also on establishing a direct exchange of ideas between key decision makers and experts in the field worldwide. ESS