The Facebook, the world’s giant networking company announced today that it will implement strategies to help the fifth upcoming national election of Ethiopia scheduled to take place in 2012.
The Ethiopian Technology Institute cooperated with the Office of the Prime Minister to organize the discussion forum in Addis Ababa to help Ethiopian parties learn more how Facebook did in South Africa, Sengal and Nigeria during election periods. Facebook is working to bring ways, which will help candidates in Ethiopia promote themselves, use real election campaign and ads, and announce the exact election schedule to the public as it did in these countries.
Facebook also said that it will discuss with the National Election Commission on tasks that could be done in the running up to the election.
Associate Director General with Facebook, Fadzay Madzinigriya, who attended the forum, said that tackling Facebook from being a field of hate speech, texts and videos is also a cooperation area with Ethiopia so that it will be serve the desired purpose.
The company is determinedly working to cancel fake Facebook pages, he said urging users to tip fake pages and hate speech posts.
General Manger of the Institute, Sandoka Debebe, said that Facebook came to Ethiopia for the first time in that the people will get more awareness on using the social media.
Government figure shows that Ethiopia has six million Facebook users out of 15.4 percent of 100 million people who subscribed to internet.
According the data updated by 2018, Facebook has 2.3 billion subscribers worldwide.