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New deadlines!Announcement and Call for PapersINTRODUCTIONThe Ethiopian Scientific Society is proud to sponsor its third annual conference on telecommunications. The focus of the ESS Telecom '98 will be on "Africa's On-Ramps", technologies and policies for facilitating access to the Internet in Africa.Over the last three years, the number of African countries connected to the Internet has risen from less than half a dozen to all but three. However, despite this remarkable rise, much remains to be done. Indeed, a few countries remain without any permanent connection at all, and only a handful have high-speed, permanent, reliable, multiple links to the outside world. For many countries, the connection consists of a single link with only a fraction of the access bandwidth of a small business (or even a home) in the North America, for example. With the exception of Southern Africa, intra-regional connectivity is low, with most traffic typically routed through Europe. Locally, access remains difficult and expensive; even the existing potential base of literate urban users is far from being fully reached. Yet these generalizations mask a very wide range of success across the continent. The conference, focusing mainly but not exclusively on local access, has the following goals: CONFERENCE DETAILSThe conference will be held on: August 7th 1998, in Washington, DC, at the World Bank headquarters and is open to all.TOPICSProfessionals both in and outside the continent, from industry, government, international agencies, and academia, are invited to contribute on the following topics: Papers and presentations should cover Material that has been presented/published elsewhere is acceptable provided no copyrights are violated.SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONSPapers or presentation proposals should be submitted by July 25th, 1998 to [email protected].Submissions must be by electronic mail in one of the followingformats: and should contain:REQUIREMENTSPapers submissions: Presentations proposal submissions: In addition a copy of the slides/charts (preferably in electronic form) should be given to ESS at least 1 week before the conferencePapers as well as slides/charts used in presentations will be published by ESS on the WWW. A print version will be available for conference attendees. SPONSORSHIPCompanies, agencies or individuals interested in co-sponsoring the event should contact [email protected] or [email protected].ESSThe Ethiopian scientific society (ESS) was established as a non-profit organization in the State of Maryland in December 1987. The society is a non- political organization and has the following as its primarygoals:Newsbit furnished by:
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