Ericsson launches 3G and Connect To Learn in the Millennium Village in Ethiopia

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*Ericsson provides access to 3G services to schools and a health clinic in the Millennium Village
of Koraro, connectivity benefitting more than 55,000 people
*More than 4,000 students in two schools will have access to cloud computing through Connect To
Learn program
*Community health workers will have access to internet connectivity for improved supervision,
monitoring, and guidance on health service delivery

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) has provided the network infrastructure and services to bring voice and
data communications to the Millennium Village Project (MVP) in Koraro located in a remote part of
northern Ethiopia. With access to 3G connectivity more than 4,000 students and their teachers at
two schools involved in the Connect To Learn initiative will now have access to modern learning
and teaching resources through Ericsson's cloud-computing solution. In addition, community health
workers in the Millennium Villages will be using mobile phones provided by Sony Mobile and
broadband access provided by Ericsson to deliver life-saving health care services directly to
households to collect health information for improved monitoring.

Elaine Weidman-Grunewald, Vice President and Head of Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility,
Ericsson says: "Education is key to ending poverty and ensuring a better life for people. ICT can
play a vital role in providing access to quality classroom resources for both teacher and student,
and fostering social awareness and global understanding which has become a necessity nowadays in
secondary education.

"Many of the residents in this area rely on the community clinic for health care, with otherwise
little or no access to the most fundamental aspects of health care. Connecting the health clinic
in Koraro is one part of a new joint continent-wide campaign that aims to train, equip and deploy
one million community health workers throughout rural sub-Saharan Africa by the end of 2015,
reaching millions of underserved people." Weidman-Grunewald continues.

The deployment of Ericsson's cloud computing solution in Connect To Learn at Koraro, Masho
Secondary School and Megab Secondary School, includes netbooks and wireless terminals that enable
both students and teachers to access educational resources on the Internet, along with basic ICT
skills training for teachers.

Awash Teklehaimanot, Professor at Columbia University and Director of Millennium Project in
Ethiopia said "the Koraro Millennium Village had limited access to communications technologies,
however, with the support of Ericsson, the people in Koraro Cluster has benefited from 3G
connectivity and Connect To Learn facilities. Students in two secondary schools are connected to
the rest of the world using Ericsson donated laptop computers, which will be critical to advance
education in the area. Mobile phones are used by community health workers and health extension
workers to advance community health efforts. With these facilities and development of our staff,
the Koraro cluster will serve as a center of excellence and a model for scaling up of ICT
solutions in Ethiopia"

Though it is on the decline, still roughly 10 percent of children die before reaching the age of
five in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2010, there were 500 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births.
Many people suffer unnecessarily from preventable and treatable diseases, from malaria,
malnutrition and diarrhea to tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS.

In Koraro, community health workers use the Open MRS (medical record system) and a
smartphone-based health-data management system to collect information and report on malaria and
other diseases, the number of births, and the incidence of malnutrition and the health status of
pregnant women during household visits. Many of these residents would otherwise have little or no
access to the most fundamental aspects of health care services.

In all, Ericsson has provided connectivity to Millennium Villages in 11 countries: Ethiopia,
Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania Uganda and Liberia.

NOTES TO EDITORS

www.connecttolearn.org http://www.connecttolearn.org/
www.millenniumvillages.org http://www.millenniumvillages.org/
www.earth.columbia.edu http://www.earth.columbia.edu/
http://1millionhealthworkers.org http://1millionhealthworkers.org/

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