iAbesha.com is a brand new online social networkingsite for professional Ethiopians worldwide and their friends. It's a freeutility on the internet for Ethiopians to present themselves and keepingcontact and networking with old and new friends.
 

What makes iAbesha.com stick out from the fewexisting digital Ethiopian social networks is that it first of all aims not to solelyfocus on American Ethiopians but is inclusive of the Ethiopian community as awhole. Secondly it has a professional profile to it and offers personal profilepage for example to expose CV and enhances connectiveness with new and oldfriends and contact possibilities with others iAbeshas. Thirdly anyone can searchand contact iAbesha user in the directory of the site easily thus makingmembers accessible for contact.

"My vision with iAbesha.com is to connectwith other Ethiopians without parting the community online into ethnicity,politics or geographic alliances" says the founder, concept and graphicdesigner of the site Maria Alemush Zerihoun. For Maria iAbesha is as a tool andit's the person that uses it in different ways that makes it happen. "That's what technology really is for - to empower andenhance people and communities" she says. That's why iAbesha.com connects youto a borderless Ethiopia your way.
 

"So many of us are running pararell racesmight it be in different developing projects, in arts or business. Just imaginewhat would happen if we all would connect somewhere together and find and usesynergies among the whole Ethiopian community that transcends acrossborders!??". It's this vision that made her invest her own money into theproject. To keep the cost down she has done pretty much all by herself exceptof the programming. "Right now I am a student doing this on the side of mystudies so it's has been a struggle in many levels" she acknowledges and adds"but I do believe it all will be very rewarding soon". Today the first versionis launched and there is more development in the pipeline to follow but thepriority now is to get it out to the wider community to start using it so thatthe development of the site can go hand in hand with its users.
 

iAbesha.com is to be softly launched in thecapital and from there making waves in the wider Ethiopian community. Its freefor anyone to register and using it by visitingiAbesha.com
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Maria AlemushZerihoun is 35 years old and is a social Anthropology student at StockholmUniversity and a freelance photographer. She is now in Addis Abeba to doresearch for her bachelor paper about the return migrants to Ethiopia.
 

More info abouther:
http://www.iabesha.com/cv/alemush

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iAbesha is a social networking utiity built for ethiopians by an ethiopian. iAbesha provides tools for it´s users to communicate, networkand interact. The site also open doors for direct contact to it´s users where ever they are in the world by it´s directory.The vision is to create a common place above ethnical, political and geographical divisions.

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written by mimi, February 10, 2008

I love iAbesha! We need more initiatives like it.
Unite.
Connect.
Exchange.
Progress.
Fiker.

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