A self-made helicopter producer wins National Aviation Innovation Competition

Helicopter innovator, Ebe Legesse won the national aviation innovation competition, organized during the first Aviation Innovation Expo-2023 at the Science Museum here in Addis Ababa. He has been producing a helicopter using... Read more »

Promoting local innovations in the aviation industry

On Monday, this week, the first-ever Aviation Innovation Expo in Ethiopia was opened at Addis Ababa Science Museum. The expo aims at promoting local inventions and innovations by the youth generation in... Read more »

 Urjiin Motorcycle:Young inventor, innovator coming-up with own motor cycles

The inventor and innovator Shehab Suleyman is founder and CEO of Urjiin, a local electric motorcycle assembling company in Ethiopia. Shehab is a mastermind with a lot of innovational ideas in his... Read more »

Extracting Ethiopia’s mineral wealth through researches, technology

Ethiopia is endowed with precious and immense mineral resources. As Ethiopia is rich in mineral resources, the sector proves a viable means for the foundation of Ethiopia’s journey to prosperity. The mining... Read more »

 Necessity is the mother of invention“As I can’t afford to purchase a mobile phone, I produced my own”-Kibrom Hagos

Inspired by technological products he saw for the first time while he visited his nearest town when he was ten, Kibrom Hagos created his own mobile phone. Now he is using his... Read more »

 AI in Ethiopia’s quest to development

Twenty-first-century technological advancements have brought the world to the cusp of a Fourth Industrial Revolution. The revolution is a fusion of advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT),... Read more »

Technology for Ethiopia: The political leadership’s role in technology empowerment

 “Whether you like it or not, technology, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI) is affecting every sector you are leading. If the political leadership remains behind in technology, Ethiopia will remain behind. Without technologically... Read more »

Accelerating technology import-substitution through investing in capacity building

The Ministry of Innovation and Technology (MInT) recently presented its 2023/24 budget year annual plan and the first quarter of the year’s performance report to the House of Peoples Representatives (HPR) Human... Read more »

Ethiopian-born teenager wins the 2023 America’s Top Young Scientist award

A 14-year-old teenager who invented soap to treat skin cancer named America’s Top Young Scientist. Heman Bekele, a ninth grader from Virginia, was named “America’s Top Young Scientist” after he invented a... Read more »

Ethiopian-born Gebisa Ejeta awarded USA National Medal of Science

President Joe Biden on Tuesday (Oct. 24) awarded the National Medal of Science to Gebisa Ejeta, Distinguished Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics and International Agriculture, executive director of the Purdue Center... Read more »