Shega Weekly – Ethiopia Launches AI Center and More

In this week’s edition of Shega Weekly, we brought you the major highlights of the startups and innovation ecosystem in Ethiopia. From hotline service deployed to prevent the misinformation of locust to a national data center to be built and more.

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A Tier 3 National Data Center To Be Built in ICT Park

The government aimed to build a national data center, where all the essential information and statistics of all federal institutions and citizens are securely stored and filed along with cloud services, making it the first nationally hosted cloud facility.

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The Data enter will serve as the head data center for the electronic government solution where all the data processing and storage are executed. The data center will give cloud services, colocation, and hosting to better deal with business applications. Read more

Ethiopian Banks Pushing Digitalization

Birhan bank is collaborating with the Minister of Education to facilitate the digital payment method for Parents. The project is named “Birhan school pay ” aims to make payment easy for parents with different package offers from wherever they are through any type of phone. 13 schools have already been included in the program with more schools underway. Read More

Abay International Bank has also launched a specialized bill generating system for service providers. Dubbed Unicash, a system built by Atlas Technologies System, made for schools, colleges, universities, utility companies, travel, hotels, and health care service providers. Read more

A Hotline Service to Prevent the Damage of Locust

The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) in partnership with Mercy Corps and the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has developed and deployed a WhatsApp for Business Desert Locust Hotline.

Information about the occurrence of desert locusts, their natures, and their movement are curren