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SchoolNet Program In Dire Dawa

More than 500 Schools in Ethiopia will benfit from SchoolNet!

About SchoolNet In Ethiopia From (www.schoolnet.et)

National Information Communications Infrastructure

The Government of Ethiopia has engaged in an intense project which aims at the creation of a national ICTs system and infrastructure that would support the flow of information at all levels of the economic and social structures step by step. Primary consideration has been given to educational system, health, agricultural research and government administration offices to provide services such as distance education, government data network and Internet services.

The assignment for building this network is given to the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC). The corporation considers this assignment as a privilege and has committed itself to bring the Government’s vision in to reality before mid of August 2003.


Distance Education Services
  • The service will be provided to more than 500 secondary and technical vocational schools.
  • The system will have eight video channels, which will carry classroom content to the schools.
  • All the remote stations will have the ability to record material locally at school site so that program can be replayed at their convenience.
  • Each video channel will have at least two audio channels.
  • Some schools will have a classroom that will be organized as an interactive classroom (40 students will attend the interactive class). The remaining classrooms will be set on receive only mode. The interactivity will be one-way video and two way audio. Two way audio will be provided through a suitable VoIP system provided at the remote stations.
  • The video content will be transmitted within the DVB carrier.  The content will be encoded either as digital video (via a suitable DVB encoder) or as IP (via a suitable video streaming server).

    
   Government Wide Area Network Service

The government network will have network structures that follow the administrative structure, that is, Federal Government is positioned on the top, Regional Government comes next then, Woreda Administration follows.  This hierarchy is illustrated in the following Figure.

 


 

Region 1 2 3 4 5 6 SNNR 12 13 DD 14 
No. of  Woreda 39 29 113 200 51 20 104 9 11 2 28 
  • Each Woreda Administration office will have a Local Area Network (LAN) called WRD-LAN.
  • Several WRD-LAN will form a Regional Wide Area Network (WAN) called REG-WAN.
  • Several REG-WAN will form Federal WAN called FED-WAN.
  • There are 594 woredas in 11 regions as indicated in the above table.
  • This network will offer data WAN services and IP based video conferencing services.

  Agricultural Research Institutes Network Services

  • 32 sites including the headquarters in Addis Ababa.
  • Each site has existing LAN to be connected to the headquarters.
  • The headquarters will serve as information hub for the remote sites.
  • Information at any site will be accessed from any other site.

  Internet Services

All schools (more than 500 sites), all Woredas (594 sites), all agricultural research institutes (32 sites), and all higher education institutes (14 sites) will get an Internet Service and will share a common Internet outbound link. The Internet will be delivered from a connection to the Internet backbone through a DVB/IP carrier or terrestrial means.