Ethiopia: Electronic Project Spurs Assembly

The Electronic Ethiopia Project will release into the market in September 2009, 400 units of six types of electronic products which will be assembled in Ethiopia for the first time. This project runs under the Engineering Capacity Building Program (ecbp), which is a joint venture scheme between the governments of Ethiopia and Germany.

Ethiopia is importing electronic products from China, Japan and other parts of the world which are easy to assemble or produce here in the country at the same production cost, Thomas Rolf manager of One Business Solutions at ecbp explained to Fortune. The project, which was funded by the program, was initiated to substitute the import of some of the electronic products. Rolf, who had been working on different projects since 2007, says he initiated the idea.

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