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A series of capacity building training to build the capacity of the staff of the Ethiopian Customs Authority was delivered to 41 participants. The training was part of ECA’s support to the Government of Ethiopia to effectively implement and maintain an UNCTAD-created Automated System for Customs Data, commonly known as ASYCUDA which handles manifests, customs declarations, accounting, and transit and suspense procedures and also generates trade data that can be used for statistical economic analysis. In addition, it provides Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) between traders and customs. The courses designed to support the existing ASYCUDA system were:
- Designing, working and hands on exercise on web-based technologies from August 20 – September 7, 2007 for 14 participants;
- Java Programming and methodologies and hands on exercise from September 26 – October 12, 2007 for 14 participants; and
- Structured Query Language programming and hands on exercise from November 20 – 29, 2007 for 13 participants.
The current courses are designed to raise the capacity of the Ethiopian Customs Authority staff on the design, development and implementation of a system that would allow users to interface the existing ASYCUDA system through the Internet.
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| Trainers at the Information Technology Centre for Africa's laboratory following courses. |
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