Our Directorates
Specialized divisions driving innovation and technology in Butajira
Innovation Work Support, Monitoring and Capacity Building Directorate
Empowering creators and fostering a culture of innovation through comprehensive support systems
Key Activities
- Providing a place for students to showcase their creative work
- Supporting and facilitating creative work
- Identifying produced creative and research results ready for service
- Identifying participants for creative work competitions and awards ceremony
- Providing material and technical support for selected creative works
- Attending zonal creative works exhibition, panel discussion, competition and awards ceremony
- Providing awareness and consulting service on copyright, patent, related rights and intellectual property
- Identifying individuals and institutions that have obtained new intellectual property recognition through collaboration
- Compiling information on individuals and institutions that have renewed intellectual property through collaboration
- Establishing science and technology clubs
- Improving the level of science and technology clubs by providing material support
- Celebrating science and technology weeks in schools
- Providing awareness training for selected schools to celebrate science and technology week
- Conducting experience exchange on technology use with technical schools
- Signing memorandum of understanding and establishing institutional linkages and putting into operation
- Supporting private institutions engaged in technology
- Identifying youth participating in creative work in the city from sub-cities/schools and providing professional assistance
- Identifying institutions that have obtained radiation generating device usage license and renewal and informing the concerned
- Creating awareness by preparing brochure on radiation generating devices
- Collecting and organizing indigenous technology
Gallary of Innovation Materials
Software and Website Development Directorate
Building digital solutions to transform government services and empower institutions
Key Activities
- Conducting customer satisfaction survey
- Providing organized supervision support for organizations engaged in ICT sector
- Total participants in Ethio Coders Initiative Program training: youth and government employees
- Developing systems for government institutions
- Designing sectoral logos for government institutions
- Customizing systems for government institutions
- Developing websites for institutions
- Preparing specification documents for network and software tools
- Evaluating bid documents for various network and software tools submitted by bidders
- Conducting technical evaluation of network and software tools provided by the winning bidder for various institutions
- Preparing network infrastructure and design documents for institutions
- Implementing local area network (LAN) installation for government offices
- Number of institutions included in Lema regional portal for information exchange
- Ensuring effective budget utilization based on plan and cost saving
- Ensuring implementation of audit system for institutions' ICT infrastructures and systems
- Preparing software development system requirement specification document
- Providing qualification confirmation, license and renewal services for ICT industry centers according to the standard
ICT Infrastructure Expansion Directorate
Building the digital backbone for Butajira's technological advancement
Key Activities
- Providing qualification confirmation, license and renewal services
- Effective budget utilization based on plan and cost saving
- Conducting survey study at city level for maintenance, training, ICT equipment renewal and establishing incubation centers and science and technology clubs
- Establishing and strengthening training centers according to the standard
- Signing memorandum of understanding and establishing coordinated linkages and putting institutions into operation
- Enabling university students to enter the industry and gain appropriate practical experience
- Compiling information on individuals and institutions that have renewed intellectual property through collaboration
- In collaboration with zone file and concerned office, removing materials that cannot be repaired and provide service
- Collecting information on items that cannot provide service after repair
- Enabling experts to participate in long-term training
- Enabling executives to gain experience exchange
- Preparing best practice document
- Providing technical support to sub-cities
- Conducting regular monitoring and support
- Preparing survey study document on market availability of ICT equipment for which specification is prepared
- Preparing ICT equipment specification document
- Distributing ICT equipment specification document
- Reviewing ICT equipment specification document
- Conducting technical evaluation for ICT equipment
- Preparing technology use skill and awareness gap assessment document
- Providing technology use skill and awareness training for government employees
- Creating awareness forum for stakeholders on digital technology utilization
- Providing skill and awareness creation for enterprises to promote their products using technology
- Distributing printed brochures to raise ICT awareness in the community
- Presented electronic media program to raise ICT awareness for the community
- Improving and strengthening community information centers according to standard
- Conducting support monitoring for community information centers
- Selecting used feasible technologies
- Identifying and collecting ICT equipment for renewal
- Renewing ICT equipment and making ready for service
- Performing software maintenance for ICT equipment
- Performing hardware maintenance for ICT equipment
- Distributing ICT equipment
- Performing preventive work for ICT machines failure
- Saving government resource that would be spent from government for ICT equipment maintenance and renewal
- Conducting city-wide government information network study and implementation
- Making institutions beneficiaries of file directory service
- Providing technical support for SchoolNet in secondary schools
- Making secondary schools beneficiaries of cloud and SchoolNet service
- Maintaining and upgrading network infrastructures according to standard
- Distributing technology information
Gallary of ICT Materials
Leadership Team
Mohammed Adem
Office Head
BSC in Information Technology
Eskedar Wolde
Innovation Coordinator and patent Right chif
BSc in Civil Engineering
Mr. Mubarek Nuri
ICT Coordinator
Bsc In Information Technology
Mr. Befekadu Terefe
Software development Coordinator
Bsc in Computer Science