Sophia Bekele a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow and CEO of CBS International, invited to address the Rotary Club of Addis Ababa and Rotary Club West

Capital Ethiopia, Addis Ababa: July 27, 2009  Rotarians briefed on the Global Crisis:  Sophia Bekele a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow and CEO of CBS International, a US- based company, was recently invited to address the Rotary Club of Addis Ababa and Rotary Club West.  Sophia spoke on the Global Economic Crisis as it related to emerging economies, including Ethiopia, the upside to the crisis and what is likely to happen in the future, illustrating her company’s work as an example.

She spoke of the initiatives she has been working on in Africa for the past years:  “Some of the initiatives that our organisations are involved in that could assist Africa’s speedy entry into the global economic landscape are through continental projects”. One of these projects is the “dotafrica”,  www.dotconnectafrica.org, which allows for registering continental/regional domains and another is a  Continental Integrated Information Network (CIIN4Africa) project  www.ciin4africa.blogspot.com, which enables Knowledge sharing of the Regional Economic Communities via a continental knowledge networking project.  Both of these projects have been endorsed by various leaders in Africa.   Therefore, let us hope for that “paradigm shift” said Sophia that would make a difference in all our lives globally be it technologically or otherwise, and keep the words of hope in this trying time, as the new US president has repeatedly said : “Yes, we can”!.

        —Capital Ethiopia , July 26, 2009