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Most Influential Ethiopian Women – 2011/2012
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Sophia Bekele, CEO of CBS International has an honorable mention amongst the list of top 10 influential women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. One year ago AradaOnline started publishing a list of the most influential Ethiopian women to acknowledge their achievements and inspire the next generation of powerful female leaders in every aspect of life. This year the list grew to include 10 Ethiopian women from the previous year’s 5 and covered a wider category of focus areas to compile the list. Here are a top ten women AradaOnline believe are currently influential in Ethiopia. The list was compiled based on individual contribution to success, value of activity they are involved in and media presence. Honorable mentions – Meseret Defar (athlete), Ambassador Konjit Sinegiorgis (diplomat), Hannah Godefa (young humanitarian), Amsale Gualu (Airplane Captain), Sophia Bekele (IT professional) Read More —AradaOnline, 2012 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: The work of Ms. Sophia Bekele Eshete, CEO of CBS International was profiled among stories of accomplished women in Ethiopia. Her key Achievements that was mentioned included: “Founded CBS International in the US and affiliated SbCommunications Network in Ethiopia to transfer technology to emerging economies, specializing in systems integration; through her company, developed the information technology infrastructure for the African Union Secretariat and an integrated data networking infrastructure for the Ethiopian parliament; advisor to the United Nations African Information Society Initiative (AISI), an initiative of UNECA; first African elected to serve as a member of the ICANN Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), which advises on global Internet policy; Founder and Executive Director of DotConnectAfrica Trust and CEO of DotConnectAfrica Registry Services Limited formed to apply for and, if successful, to administer the DotAfrica (.africa) generic Top-Level Domain on the internet” —Read More from ethiopianwomenunleashed.org, 2013 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Atlanta Georgia: CBS International was invited and attended the 2011 Leon Sullivan Foundation Summit in Atlanta Georgia. —CBSIntl WebPress, 2011 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Washington DC: CBS International represented by its CEO, Sophia Bekele was invited as one of Africa Business Champions at the week ‘s long private-public meetings held with Sr.Business and policy leadership in Washington DC, organized by various grouping including the Africa Constituency, African American Unity Caucus, The African Union Mission and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
—CBSIntl WebPress, 2010
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San Francisco, California: SF-INET a success: CBS International participated to a successfully concluded SF-INET organized by SF ISOC. The theme was on Internet trust, challenges and the next 10 years, and the current Internet model we are faced with growing challenges of trust. The San Francisco INET brought together experts from Internet policy, standards, private sector and user community. The goal of this conference is not to find ways to focus on problems with the current Internet trust model but what we want the model to be in the next ten years. Speakers include: Peter Dengate Thrush, ICANN Chairman, Jim Fenton Cisco, Daniel T Dreymann, CEO Goodmail Systems, Dave Lewis, Online Trust Alliance, Zaid Ali President/Chairman SF-Bay ISOC. Ms. Sophia Bekele is a Founding Board Member of the SFBay Chapter. The Chapter also held its first Chapter members’ meeting/social event with honorary guest, the Chairman of ICANN, Mr. Peter Dengate-Thrush and ISOC International Executives at the same time.
—ISOC-SF Press Release, 2010