Digital Ethiopia 2025 - A Strategy for Ethiopia Inclusive Prosperity.

The Digital Ethiopia 2025 - A Strategy for Ethiopia Inclusive Prosperity (2020) is the first step and fundamentally a call to action. This strategy was developed to provide a collective vision and, specifically to meet the following key objectives: 1) To propose an inclusive digital economy approach that will catalyse the realisation of Ethiopia’s broader development vision. 2) To be a visionary umbrella strategy from which sectors and institutions can then design and co-create more specific action-oriented strategies with relevant budgets, timelines and key performance indicators. 3) To emphasize the need for a sense of urgency 4) To mobilize critical stakeholders to address the imperatives that will enable an inclusive digital economy 5) To coordinate and strengthen current initiatives underway so the most pragmatic and strategic pathways are explored to unlock growth and maximize impact. 6) To ensure an inherently international approach that will enhance Ethiopia’s place in regional and global value chains while benefitting from best practice and interoperable systems.
This Strategy took into consideration the current economic drivers (Agriculture, Manufacturing and Services), the priority sectors, and the national objectives of jobs creation, forex earnings and inclusive prosperity as a means of identifying the most relevant digital enabled pathways for Ethiopia. These are: Pathway 1: Unleashing value from agriculture; Pathway 2: The next version of global value chains in manufacturing; Pathway 3: Building the IT enabled services, and; Pathway 4: Digital as the driver of tourism competitiveness. Under Pathway 1 specific opportunities that will be transformational for the sector are: Building a Digital Agriculture platform (this integrated system offers new insights that enhance the ability to make decisions and subsequently implement them); Support and Incentivize Ag-Tech Entrepreneurship (This is instrumental to encourage the youth to remain in rural areas and modernize agriculture rather than migrate to urban areas in search of service related jobs); Ensuring Inclusivity.