History
The College of Telecommunications and Information Technology, with its Graduate school, graduate School of Telecommunications and Information Technology (GSTIT) and the Professional training part is, is a young institute three years since start, who would like to make a difference in the applications of ICT in the Ethiopian Society, and teach young graduate engineers, to harness the Symbian programming aspects of mobile phones, develop relevant value added services on the existing Mobile/Wireless infrastructure, develop localized content delivery, together with Nokia who is our training partner and the Symbian Academy.
The graduate school of telecommunications and IT, GSTIT, offers three postgraduate programs, namely, Telecom Engineering, Information Technology and Telecom Management. GSTIT is intended to fill the gap for high level professionals demanded in the ICT sector in Ethiopia in particular and Eastern Africa in general. The graduates are expected to competently plan, organize, design, develop, operate, maintain and manage ICT infrastructure and ICT- based services.
GSTIT provides forums for sharing knowledge and exchange of information on Wireless and mobile communications, next generation networks, software tools and practices, and the management of ICT. The graduate programs conduct technology and environment scanning and carry out other forms of research that support localization, usability & service delivery so as to introduce improvements in these areas. The college of telecommunications and Information Technology (CTIT) is currently involved in training, graduate education and research. CTIT is sponsored by the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation, and is a regional training partner with Nokia.
Involvement with Symbian
The participation of our college with Symbian academy is due to significant importance of dealing with Symbian OS and justifies the need to develop new Symbian course(s), which will become part of the curriculum in the program that is run by the department. Nokia as regional training center for African continent selects our postgraduate school.
This opportunity gives us the way to cover the whole universities and operators that are found in our content with the developed Symbian courses. And since we already have research in the area of Mobile programming for bringing in Our Ethiopic alphabets to use
and to send SMS and MMS messages, it is a great advantage for our college to work with the Symbian Academy. In addition with the introduction of the Mobile Applications Programming course, we will be able to provide more engineers and IT specialists to master Symbian OS programming and developing new Mobile Value added services.
Courses that include Symbian technology
Software tools and techniques in communications: Mobile application programming.
University website
www.gstit.edu.et
University members engaged with Symbian
- Dr. Fisseha Mekuria, fisseha.mekuria@gstit.edu.et, Prof. & Head of Telecom Engineering Dept.
- Shiferaw Abebe(MSc, Research Assistant), ethiosms@yahoo.com
- Mihret Tesfaye (MSc, Lecturer), mihret@gstit.edu.et
- Samson Hussien (Student Research Assistant)
- Esayas Andarge
- Ashenafi Taddesse
