Ethiopia lacks a reliable street address system, making e-commerce delivery difficult and expensive. We need a universal digital addressing system (like Plus Codes or What3Words) integrated into local courier apps.

Ethiopia has a massive leather industry with thousands of tons of scrap being discarded. This challenge seeks manufacturers to process this scrap into composite materials for car seats and dashboards.

Smallholder farmers are vulnerable to climate change. We need automated insurance products that pay out automatically based on satellite weather data, without the need for manual damage assessment.

Traditional brick-and-mortar construction is slow and wasteful. This challenge seeks to foster a local manufacturing industry for prefabricated steel and timber components to speed up the Addis Ababa housing boom.

The logistics path from Addis Ababa to the Port of Djibouti is opaque and manual. We need a digital platform to track containers in real-time, automate customs documentation, and optimize truck back-loading.

Ethiopia spends hundreds of millions of USD importing palm oil while producing vast amounts of oilseeds (sesame, niger seed). The challenge is to scale local high-tech refining facilities to meet domestic demand.

Ethiopian startups struggle to move from Idea to MVP because there is a lack of local Angel Investors and early-stage VC funds. We need a standardized framework for "Startup Convertible Notes" under Ethiopian law.

Textile manufacturing is a major water polluter. To stay competitive in global markets (ESG compliance), Ethiopian factories must implement Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) systems to recycle 100% of their wastewater.

Temperature-sensitive vaccines and medicines often lose potency due to power outages in rural health centers. We need low-cost, IoT-based temperature monitoring and solar-powered medical refrigerators.

Over 90% of Ethiopian farmers still rely on animal traction. Large tractors are too expensive for smallholder plots. We need a market for "Two-Wheel Tractors" (walking tractors) and rental platforms that make mechanization affordable for small plots.

The fast-growing beverage sector is creating a plastic pollution crisis. This challenge seeks local manufacturing solutions for bamboo or sugarcane-based packaging.

Commuters in Addis spend hours waiting for buses without knowing when they will arrive. We need a simple GPS-based system to provide real-time arrival estimates via USSD or Mobile App.

Most rural schools have no internet. We need a low-cost, solar-powered server (Raspberry Pi style) that broadcasts educational content in local languages over local Wi-Fi.

Ethiopian tech freelancers struggle to receive payments from platforms like Upwork or Fiverr into local bank accounts. The challenge is to build a compliant gateway for stablecoin-to-Birr conversion.

In major cities, up to 35% of clean water is lost to leaks and illegal connections before it reaches a tap. We need smart sensor networks to detect leaks in real-time.

With the digital boom, thousands of tons of electronics are ending up in landfills. This challenge seeks a scalable system for collecting, refurbishing, or extracting rare minerals from local e-waste.

Informal workers (street vendors, day laborers) cannot access credit because they lack a digital footprint. We need a secure, biometric-linked ID that builds a credit score based on their daily transactions.

Over 40% of fruits and vegetables in Ethiopia rot before reaching the market. The challenge is to implement decentralized, solar-powered cold rooms at the farm-gate level.

While several government agencies want to innovate, they lack a standard framework for operating Innovation Labs. This results in silos and wasted resources. We need a unified model for public R&D.

Addis Ababa faces a deficit of over 1.2 million housing units. Current construction methods are too expensive and carbon-intensive. We need modular, low-cost, and sustainable building technologies that can be deployed at scale.

Ethiopia aims to be a textile hub, but manual defect detection in fabric leads to high rejection rates in international markets. This challenge looks for AI/Computer Vision solutions to automate quality inspection on factory lines.

While many households have basic solar lanterns, the challenge remains to scale productive-use solar equipment (like pumps, mills, and refrigerators) that can actually generate income for rural communities.

Getting produce from rural farms to urban markets or export hubs is plagued by high costs, lack of cold chain infrastructure, and fragmented transport networks. This results in 30-40% post-harvest loss for perishable goods.

With over 2 million youth entering the job market annually in Ethiopia, traditional employment sectors are saturated. The challenge is to scale the gig economy and digital labor platforms to provide sustainable, dignified work for thousands of skilled and semi-skilled young people.

Smallholder farmers in Ethiopia often lack the digital tools to verify the origin and quality of their coffee, leading to lower prices and lack of transparency in the global market. This challenge seeks technological solutions to track coffee from bean to cup.