Ethiopia plans internet expansion
Ethopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi believes information technology has the power to counteract poverty according to BBC News.
“We are fully committed to ensuring that as many of our poor as possible have this weapon that they need to fight poverty at the earliest possible time” he said.
Currently there are around 30,000 internet connections (total population is 71 million); within six months they aim to up this to 500,000. It will invest around US$40m to do this. 450 secondary schools will be connected to the web, regional and district government offices will be linked and Healthnet will connect all hospitals.
