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In late 2009, Chinese firm ZTE won a contract to supply an 'integrated' camera network for real-time surveillance of Addis Abbaba [[CiteRef::zteZTEBuildHighTech2010]]. | In late 2009, Chinese firm ZTE won a contract to supply an 'integrated' camera network for real-time surveillance of Addis Abbaba [[CiteRef::zteZTEBuildHighTech2010]]. | ||
Revision as of 23:53, 18 December 2022
Information Certainty: Speculative
Deployment Purpose: Surveillance
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| In 2009, ZTE Corporation won the bidding to install a camera network system in Addis Ababa, Ethiopa's capital. The surveillance division of ZTE, ZTE NetView, was drafted to install the system. In 2010 they installed cameras around major streets. The cameras provide 'real time' integrated surveillance of the city. While no biometric surveillance technologies appear to be in use, ZTE also provides these 'peace city' solutions to China where facial recognition is often a feature of the systems. Features such as facial recognition could easily be added to a system such as this. In Ethiopia, ZTE competes with Huawei for the biggest share in the ICT market. These moves are viewed by scholars as part of the Chinese Belt and Road initiative. |
Products and Institutions:
| Product Deployed | Unknown Products 0118 |
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| Institutions ⠉ | |
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| Search software |
Status and Events:
| Status | Ongoing |
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| Events | Start (2 January 2010, Speculative, , No description) |
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Users:
| Involved Entities | ZTE Corporation |
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| Managed by | Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia |
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Location:
| City | Addis Ababa |
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| Country ⠉ | Ethiopia |
Description[ ]
In late 2009, Chinese firm ZTE won a contract to supply an 'integrated' camera network for real-time surveillance of Addis Abbaba 2.
As nation prepares to conduct national election, Ethiopia federal police is planting security cameras in major streets of the capital, Addis Ababa. There are growing rumors that the surveillance cameras are purposely meant to monitor and control a possible post-election violence and there by to hunt down responsible ones 3
Since 2010, Huawei has also been a key player in the ICT sector in Ethiopia, and evidence of the use of camera networks to spy on the African Union has been reported 4.
However, ZTE maintains control. These moves for dominance of the ICT sector are seen as part of Chinas Digital Belt and Road Initiatives by scholars.
From 2008 to 2013, the Chinese firm ZTE was the only telecom vendor building telecom infrastructure in Ethiopia. Since 2013, ZTE has shared this market with the large Chinese company Huawei. These two Chinese firms have each gained a 50% share in the carrying out of a US$1.6 billion project to introduce 4G in Addis Ababa and expand 3G services around the country (Maasho 2013). In 2014, the Swedish company Ericsson took over part of ZTE’s share in this project because the Ethiopian government had disagreed with ZTE about the costs of upgrading an existing network (Reuter s 2 01 4).3 However, in 2016 Huawei took over a 3G project that was part of Ericsson’s share (Fikade 2016). Huawei and ZTE, therefore, continue to dominate the telecom infrastructure market in Ethiopia 1
References
- a b Lugt, Sanne van der. 13 Exploring the Political, Economic, and Social Implications of the Digital Silk Road into East Africa: The Case of Ethiopia. Amsterdam University Press., 2021.
- a b "ZTE Build a High-Tech National Public Safety System for Ethiopia". ZTE (2010) <https://usa.ingrammicro.com/media/Documents/vendors/z/zte/docs/zte_build_a_high_tech_national_public_safety.pdf>
- ^ "Ethiopia Installing street surveillance cameras ahead of polls". (2010) <https://sudantribune.com/article34534/> Accessed: 2022-12-18
- ^ "How China Has Been Using Huawei-Made Cameras to Spy on the African Union Headquarters". (2020) <https://www.heritage.org/africa/commentary/how-china-has-been-using-huawei-made-cameras-spy-the-african-union-headquarters> Accessed: 2022-12-18