Ethiopia Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide - Infoasaid

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526. Online MediaLess than one percent of Ethiopia’s population had access to the internet in 2010,according to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).The internet is still the exclusive preserve of a small educated urban elite.According to the CIA World Factbook, there were only 447,000 internet users inEthiopia in 2009.However, the popularity of the internet and social networking is growing fast.According to the website www.socialbakers.com , which measures internet usage,there were nearly 370,000 Facebook users in Ethiopia in September 2011. Nearly athird of these had signed up over the previous six months.There are several news websites about Ethiopia run from abroad. These mainlyserve the diaspora. They include:www.ethiopianreview.comwww.nazret.comwww.ethiomedia.comwww.ethioforum.comwww.jimmatimes.comHowever, access to websites that are sympathetic to the political opposition or whichare deemed hostile to the government, may be blocked from inside Ethiopia.For example, the US-based press freedom organization Committee to ProtectJournalists said in August 2008 that its website www.cpj.org was inaccessible frominside the country.“Opponents of Ethiopia’s current political regime have increasingly used onlinemedia to criticize the government, and the country has responded by implementing afiltering regime that blocks access to popular blogs and the Web sites of many newsorganizations, dissident political parties, and human rights groups,” the CanadabasedOpenNet Initiative said in a 2009 report:http://opennet.net/research/profiles/ethiopia“However, filtering is not comprehensive, and much of the media content that thegovernment is attempting to censor can be found on sites that are not banned,” itadded.
53One pro-government news website that is widely available in Ethiopia iswww.waltainfo.com .It is widely believed in Ethiopia that the government monitors internet usage byindividuals on security grounds.According to the Open Internet Initiative, cyber cafes provide the main means of webaccess for urban Ethiopians.Mobile internet connections are widely used by the elite in Addis Ababa.They access in the web on smart phones and via modem sticks linked to computers.The Open Internet Initiative notes that Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) telephonecalls are banned in Ethiopia and may not be made from internet cafes.Nevertheless street vendors in Addis Ababa openly sell CDs for installing Skype andsimilar VOIP services.
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