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Message from His Excellency Dr. Belete Molla, Minister of Innovation and Technology
Dear followers of our website
The role of innovative technology capacity building is significant for the development and universal prosperity of a country. Therefore, it requires relentless efforts to adapt technology and innovation policies and plans to the current situation. In our country, since 1987, efforts have been made to bring about structural change by devising and implementing policies, strategies and plans to bring results in the field of science and technology.
It has been believed that it is important to empower the actors in order to reduce poverty by bringing social and economic development to the sector. As a result, efforts have been made to build a workforce that is capable of finding, providing, adapting the technology that will be used for the proposed change based on the needs of the industry.
Our ministry has been reorganized in accordance with Decree No. 1097/11 to support the indigenous economic direction designed following the national change. The new organization has given it a new capacity to play its role in the national development by making a coherent policy and strategy in the field of technology. With this new capacity, the Ministry able to put into action a ten-year plan for the sector based on indigenous economic development agenda.
The use of digital technology has been identified as a critical capability for the success of the new development direction. Therefore, an inclusive digital transformation strategy has been prepared that is aligned from the indigenous economic perspective, that will achieve the ten-year plan and strengthen the sector. The Digital Ethiopia 2025 strategy is an angle that ensures inclusive national prosperity by achieving the indigenous economic development plan and takes our achievements so far to a new stage of development.
This was possible due to the arrival of information technology and a change leadership with a clear perspective in the field and being able to provide sufficient support. With the attention given, we are required to work by establishing new procedures to bring results of social change.
We are working on ICT and digital economy, research and innovation sector to create job opportunities, GDP contribution. I am sure; the website will be an important knowledge-sharing platform between our Ministry and public at large for creating science and Technology Community.
Belete Molla Getahun (PhD)
Minister, Ministry of Innovation and Technology
The government merged the former Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology to form the Ministry of Innovation and Technology in 2019.
Focus Areas
- Research
- Innovation
- Technology Transfer
- Digitalization
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