Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (29 June 2022)
In a June 28 social media post, the Ministry of Innovation and Technology announced that Ethiopia has approved and begun working on Digital Ethiopia 2025.
Digital Ethiopia is an initiative bringing together government, private, and developmental agency sectors to provide opportunities for four of the biggest sectors that can help improve the digital economy of Ethiopia.
Hence, the sectors getting much attention are the agriculture, manufacturing, information technology, and tourism industry.
In light of this policy, the following systems will be provided to each sector:
Agriculture
Build a digital agricultural platform to help and encourage tech-agriculture.
Provide Internet material such as information and data to help the farmer control his products.
Supply blockchain – to make competitions fair a make payment options safe
Enhance and encourage technological job creation.
Manufacturing Sector
Bring forth new technology in industrial parks to help expand to the global market
Dispense a digital logistic management process to enhance export
Informal Technology
Provide infrastructure to high capacity and talent centers
Re-structure the IT park to full capacity
Layout leading business process
Tourism
Digitalize tourism and improve tourist flow
Enhance span of stay and payment mechanisms
Build capacity of small enterprises with the aim of making tourism more competitive
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