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[ethioscience]

The Role of Public Investment in Social and Economic Development is unquestionable. Well-chosen projects contribute to job creation and increased productivity. Ethiopia government's ambition to support the cultural and creative industries sector is highly commendable but i think the federal funding need to target on the real needs of our society like social care and health for eldern; modern farming methods, provision of additional food & education for poor childern, affordable housing & building the network infrastructure. Beside that selected projects like Abrhot need to adopt state of art technologies & digital platform rather than building a classic library for 1.1 billion Birr. By doing so technology can become the force that provides equitable access to digital resources to all citizens independet from their locations.

[Horus]

The Role of Public Investment in Social and Economic Development is unquestionable. Well-chosen projects contribute to job creation and increased productivity. Ethiopia government's ambition to support the cultural and creative industries sector is highly commendable but i think the federal funding need to target on the real needs of our society like social care and health for eldern; modern farming methods, provision of additional food & education for poor childern, affordable housing & building the network infrastructure. Beside that selected projects like Abrhot need to adopt state of art technologies & digital platform rather than building a classic library for 1.1 billion Birr. By doing so technology can become the force that provides equitable access to digital resources to all citizens independet from their locations.

Actually, the opposite is the case. Information technology and the organization of knowledge need not be opposed to each other. They could be opposed to each other. For example, the information tsunami has now become a disruption to systematic thinking and learning. knowledge is not always the same as information. In fact, one can't find disciplined expert knowledge on line. Even if we assume that all human knowledge can be stored digitally and transferred person to person digitally, only a minute proportion of the Ethiopian population has access to computers and has the skills to operate computers. The physical hard copy book will be the number 1 means of storing and communicating knowledge in Ethiopia for years to come.

In a way this is a blessing. Books are written from thoughts. Every words in a book is scripted from thinking. Human are thinkers, robots don't think. when the human thinker is replaced with data processor robot, knowledge dies and the universe becomes one huge mass of information which already too much to manage it. It is all junk-in-junk out.

Books are the greatest thinking tools that humans have created and we need more of them and bigger mansions of knowledge - ቤተ መጻህፍት!

[ethioscience]

Hi Horus, happy new year.

I am not saying the projects are bad or not necessary but looking the list of urgent basic needs in Addis , like housing or clean water, I would prioritize art & culture in the 2nd row. Beside that In Addis you will find book sellers on every corner. The target groups for Abrhot library will be academics, who need further resources for their research or articles, hence if the government provides digital platform these group will get access to these digital documents independent of their whereabouts.

[Horus]

Hi Horus, happy new year.

I am not saying the projects are bad or not necessary but looking the list of urgent basic needs in Addis , like housing or clean water, I would prioritize art & culture in the 2nd row. Beside that In Addis you will find book sellers on every corner. The target groups for Abrhot library will be academics, who need further resources for their research or articles, hence if the government provides digital platform these group will get access to these digital documents independent of their whereabouts.

ethioscience,
አንድ አገር እነዚህ ያልካቸው ነገሮች ሁሉ አብሮ በአንድ ግዜ መስራት አለበት ። መኖሪያ ቤትና ትምህርት ቤት ሁለቱም አስፈላጊ ናቸው ። አንድ አገር በቂ ስንዴ አምርቶ ህዝቡን መመገብ አለበት፣ በተመሳሳይ ግዜ 33 ሚሊዮን ተማሪ መጻህፍት ማግኘት አለባቸው ። ስንዴ የሆድ ምግብ ነው፣ እውቀት ያንጎል ምግብ ነው። ሁለቱም አስፈላጊ ናቸው። ልብ በል ዛሬ በኢትዮጵያ 33 ሚሊዮን ተማሪ አለ! ብዙ መቶ ቤተ መጻህፍት ያሰፈልጉናል ። የምግብና የቤት እጥረት የመጣው ህዝባችን እውቀትና የፈጠራ ችሎታው፣ ችግር የመፍታት ችሎታው ዝቅተኛ ስለሆነ ነው ። ላልካቸው ችግሮች ሁሉ አንዱ ትልቁ መፍትሄ መጻህፍት ናቸው ... እውቀት፣ እውቀት ፣ እውቀት!!!

[ethioscience]

Agree 100% knowledge is the key to improve the life of our society. But to archive this goal quickly we need to focus on how to increasing the availability of education to wide range of our society. Digital technology and online portals provide better possibilities than onsite library or schools. Here you find an example projects from India https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/