"Technological leapfrogging" is a term that proudly buzzes around the ministries and tech community of Addis Ababa and other African cities: the notion that advanced technology in developing nations can help them bypass the bureaucracy of older systems elsewhere.
It follows un successful talks involving tech nicians, the opera management and the culture ministry.
The science and technology ministry is investing in infrastructure and high-tech industrial parks; the World Bank is helping out with a $100m loan.
Beijing Control Tech had the relationships with purchasing agents at government ministries and state-owned companies, which make up more than three-fourths of the market for such goods in the People's Republic of China.
They also point to her involvement, between 1999 and 2005, with Computer Associates-Jinchen, a joint venture between an American tech company and a Chinese firm in which China's ministry of public security reportedly held a 20% stake.
Nor is the spying limited to manufacturers: tech companies have been targeted by the same group.China's foreign ministry, meanwhile, says that to suggest its government steals information from American companies is "extremely ridiculous".
An online biography says Mr. Zhu, who has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech, has been invited every year since 1995 by Chinese ministries and local governments to give seminars and consult with industrial and high-tech parks in China.
Olive Group's website said that it acquired a security contract from Iraq's ministry of oil in 2011 to provide high-tech security for the massive complex, which boasts a perimeter surveillance system, x-ray machines and explosives detectors.
HDX was funded by DFID, the UK's development agency, the Swedish aid ministry, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Humanitarian Innovation Fund, a grant-making fund that focuses on tech for humanitarian projects in the developing world.
