First Practical Workshop on IoT to Increase Awareness and Interest in Ethiopian Universities

The Department of Computer Science College of Natural Sciences of the Addis Ababa University (AAU), in collaboration with the Internet Society and International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) successfully concluded the 1^st practical workshop in Ethiopia on Internet of Things (IoT). The workshop, which took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 23-29 September 2017 aimed at increasing the awareness and interest of IoT amongst Universities in Ethiopia and in the long run enhance the understanding and involvement of Africans in IoT standardization at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

The workshop came at an important crossroad as we are at the beginning of a new revolution, witnessing our pots and cups turned to be part of the computing world. The wrist watch no longer tells us the “time” only, but also a lot more information – from the status of the weather to our health. Our “things” can be enabled to compute and even communicate to one another; and this takes us to new mode of computation known as IoT.

Dawit Bekele, Director of the African regional bureau of Internet Society reflected on this issue saying that “the potential of IoT in all Continue reading