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iceaddis.com is launched today. Tomorrow is exactly one year since we have inaugurated iceaddis. While we are celebrating the one year anniversary we are happy to announce that we are launching a more functional website for our followers and members.

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The Italian Cultural Institute in cooperation with EiABC and AAU School of Fine Arts and Design  announces its first  designcompetitionin titled “What Can You Make with Bamboo?” The  design competition is  open to all students, artists, artisans, and designers working in  Ethiopia. The object of the competition is to create a piece of furniture or accessory made mainly of bamboo.The competition was launched at EiABC with a lecture given by Italian architect and designer Luca Colombo on Monday, March 13th at 17:30 PM. Read more »

Social Innovation for Women is a Marrow Foundation funded initiative hosted at the ICE Hub in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on the EiABC campus of Addis Ababa University. This is a project of the Center for Creative Leadership www.ccl.org and an extension of Leadership Beyond Boundaries www.leadbeyond.org We are thrilled to see these amazing women from the EiABC campus of Addis Ababa University stepping out into this new leadership adventure!

The mission of Social Innovation for is to provide humanitarian investments to emerging social entrepreneurs whose ideas hold promise to improve the lives of women, girls and families in Ethiopia .

Social innovation for women is a Marrow foundation funded initiative hosted at iceaddis in EiABC campus of Addis Ababa university . The mission of Social Innovation  is to provide humanitarian investments to emerging social entrepreneurs whose ideas hold promise to improve the lives of women, girls and families in Ethiopia.  It is a project of the center for creative leadership( www.ccl.org) and an extension of leadership Beyond boundaries (www.leadbeyond.org.) The group is thrilled to see these amazing women from the EiABC campus of Addis Ababa University stepping put into this new leadership adventure. Read more »

This one day knowledge sharing was organized based on the consultation and input from the various C4C partners. It was coordinated on behalf of the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) and Connect4Change (C4C).  This event was held at ICE Addis (I-innovation, C-collaboration, E-entrepreneurship) on the EiABC compound on January 27, 2012.  The main focus was on sharing experiences of deployed ICT applications and school management systems in Ethiopia. The participants came from various public and private entities, including ICT focal persons from schools and NGOs.

Experiences were shared on the key issues of proper managing and utilizing resources at organization level and ICT school laboratories which assist to achieve the general educational goal. The private company “Escape Computing” introduced one of their prototype software applications called “eclass”. This software package impressed most of the participants. The representative from areas like Assyita, Jimma, Adulala  D/Tabor, Bahir Dar and Addis Ababa wanted to be connected to other education and ICT related projects and programmes . Read more »

The Google team is  gearing up for the  first g|Ethiopia, happening February 7 to  8 in Addis Ababa . The team with great line-up of Google speakers from across the world aims to  engage  with community of developers, business leaders, and entrepreneurs who are as passionate about technology as they  are.

The first day of the team will  focus on hands-on training from engineers specializing in popular tools such as App Engine, Android, Chrome, Maps, Google+ and Webmaster Tools.  The second day will be a  presentation  suitable for marketers, webmasters, and entrepreneurs.  On the day  all Technical and non-technical presentations will focus on Google products, platforms, tips and trends.

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EiABC became the first East African  institute to be certified with an international quality label eLearning Quality Assurance certification.

Omar Dawud, a certified peer reviewer and iceAddis staff, received the certification at Online Educa Berlin on behalf of EiABC.  Dr. Ulf-DanielEhlers, vice president of European foundation for quality in eLearning calls the process “a success” while giving the certification for the eleven institutes which include United Nations University,  Global Campus and eAcademy-GIZ.

“The certification has been given to the  introductory course to be given for EiABC teachers. It gives them the practical and theoretical background they need to be able to start adapting their own course to a blended, ICT supported learning scenario.” Said Omar.

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