{"id":1837,"date":"2025-12-22T11:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:04:27","slug":"startups-and-digital-skills-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/2025\/12\/22\/startups-and-digital-skills-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups and digital skills development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cStartups and digital skills development are among the key pillars for achieving the Digital Ethiopia 2030 Strategy. Clear priorities have been set to enhance digital skills. By 2030: 70% of the population is expected to have digital literacy; 80% of government employees will be digitally skilled; 10 million citizens will receive digital skills training. In addition, efforts will be made to enable 5,000 startups to become operational and to create 1 million jobs in the digital sector. On the other hand, it is projected that by 2030, the digital sector will contribute 12% of GDP.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muluken Kere, State Minister for Innovation and Technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/hashtag\/digitalethiopia2030?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZYdT2jla0Jyvg47V-s6S4VM4A2Q0xkMem1IibgZMMwrNFAP5363sZKmIMI5xtTwzaD11esbVjPryTbqI1cDV1BQWC4R6x3lJC_PrI4XCmiiURXBkSUGBeMcm1jPb3PHOJxtqd9Zb3_g93oa9ZDE6V9Aa-3WzwB_zAAspex_Jg3321CrGE4ytl1RrJb6EK9gMXk&amp;__tn__=*NK-R\">#DigitalEthiopia2030<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/hashtag\/pmoethiopia?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZYdT2jla0Jyvg47V-s6S4VM4A2Q0xkMem1IibgZMMwrNFAP5363sZKmIMI5xtTwzaD11esbVjPryTbqI1cDV1BQWC4R6x3lJC_PrI4XCmiiURXBkSUGBeMcm1jPb3PHOJxtqd9Zb3_g93oa9ZDE6V9Aa-3WzwB_zAAspex_Jg3321CrGE4ytl1RrJb6EK9gMXk&amp;__tn__=*NK-R\">#PMOEthiopia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-99.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-99.png 810w, https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-99-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/image-99-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cStartups and digital skills development are among the key pillars for achieving the Digital Ethiopia 2030 Strategy. Clear priorities have been set to enhance digital skills. By 2030: 70% of the population is expected to have digital literacy; 80% of government employees will be digitally skilled; 10 million citizens will receive digital skills training. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news_en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcs.gov.et\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}