Ministry of Innovation and Technology (Ethiopia)

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Ministry of Innovation and Technology
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Agency overview
FormedDecember 1975
Jurisdiction Government of Ethiopia
Headquartersnear Colson St, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
9°01′26″N38°45′18″E / 9.023822°N 38.755073°E / 9.023822; 38.755073
Annual budget300 billion birr (as of 2021) [1]
Agency executive

The Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MinT) (formerly known as the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology) is an Ethiopian government department responsible for science and technological development in Ethiopia as well as a governing body of communications. It was established as a commission in December 1975 by directive No.62/1975. The current minister is Belete Molla since 2021.

Contents

List of ministers

History

The Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) was a governmental institution that was established for the first time in December 1975 by proclamation No.62/1975 as a commission. Following the change in government in 1991 and with the issuance of the new economic policy, the commission was re-established in March 1994 by Proclamation No.91/94. The commission went into its third phase of re-institution on 24 August 1995 by Proclamation No.7/1995, as an agency following the establishment of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia . [5] The ministry changed its title to Ministry of Innovation and Technology in October 2018.

Vision

To see Ethiopia entrench the capacities which enable rapid learning, adaptation and utilization of effective foreign technologies by the year 2022/23.

It has a mission of coordinating, encouraging and supporting science and technology activities that realize the country's social and economic developments

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