Ethiopia’s Digital Ethiopia 2030 strategy builds on earlier digitalization efforts to expand digital public infrastructure, e-government, and a digital economy while emphasizing inclusion and youth employment. Drawing on policy documents, secondary literature on digital transformation in fragile settings, and analyses of Ethiopia’s political trajectory, the paper argues that fragility both enables and constrains digital transformation. Section 2 reviews literature on digital transformation, digital public infrastructure, and governance in fragile and conflict-affected states. Section 4 analyses ways in which conflict and fragility have enabled selected digital reforms, while Section 5 explores how they constrain inclusive digital transformation. 3.4 From Digital Ethiopia 2025 to Digital Ethiopia 2030Against this backdrop, the government launched the Digital Ethiopia 2025 strategy around 2019–2020 as an initial roadmap for leveraging digital technologies to support growth, jobs, and service delivery.

Source: Ethiopian News December 28, 2025 07:26 UTC