The demand for ICT services at Hawassa University, which started with ADSL-modem + Dial-up service and very few office desktops and machines and served one University staff at a time mainly for sending/receiving e-mail messages in 2000, and has increased very astoundingly! We are at a stage where ICT is the heart of almost all businesses run by the university, including the core businesses like Teaching-Learning, Research, and community services. 

The ICT infrastructure projects started in the year 2008 widely, a campus-wide network was established at the main campus. Moreover, the three campuses at Hawassa City, i.e. the Main Campus, the College of Health Sciences, the College of Agriculture were interconnected via fiber-optic cables.

In the year 2014 started an expansion of the existing network infrastructure so as to cover all the buildings that were not included in the previous two phases and also interconnect the Wondogenet college of forestry and natural science campus to the campuses in Hawassa city. The current network infrastructure is 10GB bandwidth support capacity in five campuses, i.e. Main Campus, Technology Institute, College of Health Sciences, College of Agriculture, and Wondogenet College of Forestry and natural science.

Currently, the University recognizes ICT as a powerful enabling tool for institutional change and transformation to attain its stretched strategic goals and initiatives, missions and vision. The University plans to expand the ICT infrastructure, digitalization and consultancy services collaboratively with different city, regional and national administration sector participation.

The ICT Directorate office was established to meet the following objectives:

• To plan, develop and manage University-wide ICT infrastructure
• To develop and manage relevant applications
• To manage operations and maintenance of ICT resources
• To train end-users on computer literacy and offer end-user computing support
• To promote staff development program to ensure that ICT staff continue to acquire the necessary skills to provide high-quality services and support
• To advise and consult the University management on the acquisition of ICT resources and related issues
• Carry out researches in ICT 

Teams under ICT Directorate:

The directorate’s governance structure represents Six operational teams:

• Network Administrator Team
• ICT Infrastructure and Cyber security team
• Software Programmer team
• System Administrator team
• IT technology and e-learning Team
• ICT Maintenance Team

Endalkachew Mengesha

ICT executive,

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Phone: +251 462204736, +251 913180483

              Team Leaders

• Esubalew G/Mariam 0943986310 (ICT Infrastructure and Cyber security team Leader)
• Mulugeta Tesfaye (Network Administrator Team Leader)
• Getachew Kumera (Software Programmer team Leader)
• KedilMels Asfaw (System Administrator team Leader)
• Asnakech Mathewos (IT technology and e-learning Team Leader)
• Zeray Araya (ICT Maintenance Team Leader)