Huawei, Lenovo to Supply 180,000 Tablets to Ethiopian GovernmentJanuary 18, 2018 - In a bid to establish effective data registration system and avoid double counting during the fourth national census, the Ethiopian Central Statistics Agency (CSA) announced that it has purchased 180,000 mobile tablets from two Chinese companies, namely Huawei and Lenovo. The two companies have provided 90,000 mobile tablets each as per the agreement. According to experts at the CSA, the use of mobile tablet technologies during the data collection procedure will ease the census process. Following the Ethiopian Public Procurement and Property Disposal Services international bid on behalf of the Central Statistics Agency, the two Chinese companies agreed to provide the mobile tablets that will be applied for the registration process. According to Biratu Yigezu, Director General of CSA, the products were purchased as part of the 3.5 billion Ethiopian Birr (128 million U.S. dollars) total budget that was secured for the census.

Source: Ethiopian News January 19, 2018 02:15 UTC