Free coding training is open to students, and the target runs to Nehase

The initiative was launched in July 2024 with a three-year goal of five million enrolments. It reached 5,005,146 in under two years, and the Prime Minister announced the new figure in June: seven million, by August. Courses cover programming, data analysis, Android development and the basics of artificial intelligence.

"Five million Ethiopians have already decided; now it is your turn," the Prime Minister said in the call reported on 10 August, describing the kremt as an opportunity that should not be allowed to pass in vain.

The session at the Office of the Prime Minister opened with an exhibition tour built around artificial intelligence, which school students attended, and Billene Seyoum of the Press Secretariat spoke. She called young people's technical and digital skills a national asset and confirmed the seven million target.

The panel that followed brought together Dr Abiyot Bayou, senior adviser to the Minister of Innovation and Technology, Bethlehem Dessie, chief executive of gheero, an initiative graduate, Azmeraw Tadesse, and the technology entrepreneur Mahlet Seyoum. Young people in the room put their own questions to them. The full hour is on the Prime Minister's Office channel, linked in the sources below.

Nothing here needs a school's involvement, which is exactly why it is easy to pass on. A teacher who tells a Grade 9 to 12 class about it in the last weeks of the holiday has done the whole job.

The eleven trades arriving in Grade 11 from 2019 E.C. include software development, and the bureaus have been asked to have teachers and workshops ready before September. A student who spends the last weeks of the holiday on the basics walks into that class already knowing what a program looks like. The detail on those trades is in the circular on the eleven new subjects.