Amest Santim General Business is a private limited company established in September 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and registered with the Addis Ababa City Administration Trade and Industry Development Bureau under license number 10/2/3/04715/97

In accordance with VAT Proclamation No. 285/2002 Article 16 or Article 18, the company is also Value Added Tax (VAT) registered with the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Federal Inland Revenue Authority under VAT registration number 29367

Amest Santim General Business PLC was founded by two share holders, Nahom Tamerat and Fitsum Meshesha, with a capital of 20,000 ETB.

With the intention of providing quality based IT services and exceeding clients’ expectations, since its establishment, the company has become a reliable IT and growth partner for many.

Goal: To become the most recognized and leading IT solutions provider in Ethiopia.

Mission: To provide unique IT services which are up to par with global trends, world standards and the latest technology. And thereby to ensure that local companies reap the benefits IT has to offer.

Objectives:

1. To provide quality and standard web design service mainly to business in Ethiopia and abroad.
2. To provide high quality special IT equipment to clients in Ethiopia.
3. To provide highly demanded off-the-shelf software for local use.
4. To provide flexible custom-software development service of high quality to clients in Ethiopia and abroad.
5. To provide elegant graphics design service to key clients.
6. To bring various online business/service websites to the general public.
7. To help companies make the best of their resources by deploying IT solutions such as computer networks, software and other IT-based productivity tools.
8. To study the local IT environment and to prepare "packaged" solutions for typical and recurring problems.
9. To establish and strengthen international ties so as to provide cost-effective yet quality IT services to clients abroad.
10. To bring the Ethiopian online community closer via various web initiatives.
11. To help and take part in grass root IT policy and directive development in the Ethiopian context.
12. To make sure that local clients have the choice of world-class, standard IT products and services.

Amest Santim General Business PLC is a dynamic and innovative Information Technology (IT) Products and Services Company always involved with the latest and best technologies. The company has identified various industry niches to specialize in such as

• Website solutions (website design, web hosting, and domain name registration, creating and launching online business websites etc.),
• Desktop software solutions (software development, software customization, software deployment etc.),
• Hardware supply supply of special IT equipment such as desktop virtualization multi-access stations,
• Networking and
• IT consulting.

The company has a great sense and tradition of sharing that has motivated the company to be a strong Open Source Software advocate. The company has taken positive steps to actually get involved in this "movement" by creating and making available open source software, hosting other open source software and in general adopting a culture of using open source software.

In addition, the company is really proud of its general practices of honesty, ethicalness and adherence to standards and rules. Even in its internal workings, the company has standards for everything such as Coding Standards, Document Organization Standards, and Data Storage Standards.

The future for Amest Santim General Business PLC is very bright. The company will continue on its current path of success to achieve unprecedented levels of recognition and accomplishment.

Nahom Tamerat Endale, General Manager (2005 - )
B.Sc. Computer Science, Addis Ababa University, 2003. Also taught at Addis Ababa University for two years.

Fitsum Meshesha Kifetew, Technical Manager (2005 - )
B.Sc. Computer Science, Addis Ababa University, 2003. M.Sc. Computer Science, Addis Ababa University, 2005. Also lectures at Addis Ababa University since 2005.

The company is also a member of the Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce. Membership ID Card Number 0007361.