LUMEN

LUMEN

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Digital Ethiopia 2030

The trust layer for Ethiopian public services.

LUMEN is a sovereign digital platform that brings Ethiopia's public services together — digital stamping, citizen reporting, personal document vaults, and criminal records — under one trusted system.

ለኢትዮጵያ የሕዝባዊ አገልግሎት ዲጂታል አምድ

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Digital Services

2030

Target Year

100%

Open Source

6+

Federal Agencies

Services in the network

stamp.etreport.etvalu.etCriminal Records

The Meaning of LUMEN

LUMEN means Light.

A Latin word for light — and an acronym for what we stand for.

LLaw

The digital home for Ethiopia's laws, judgments, and legal proceedings.

UUnified

One system where every ministry, court, and agency speaks the same language.

MManagement

Clear, end-to-end tracking of cases, filings, and deadlines.

EEvidence

Tamper-proof records backed by cryptography and chain-of-custody logs.

NNetwork

A secure link between institutions, citizens, and services nationwide.

Our Services

One platform. A family of services.

Each service in the LUMEN network shares the same identity, audit trail, and public verification — so institutions and citizens can trust every record, everywhere.

stamp.et

Digital Stamps & Signatures

ዲጂታል ማህተም

Secure digital stamps and signatures for government institutions. Replace ink with verified cryptography — every document sealed and publicly checkable.

report.et

Citizen Reporting

የዜጎች ሪፖርት

Safe and verified channels for citizens to report corruption, service complaints, and civic issues to any government branch.

valu.et

Personal Document Vault

የሰነድ ማስቀመጫ

A single, encrypted place for every citizen's government documents — IDs, licences, certificates — owned by you and shared only with your consent.

Criminal Records

National Criminal Registry

የወንጀል መዝገብ

A trustworthy, audit-logged national criminal record system accessible only to authorised courts, law enforcement, and employers with documented consent.

More services will join the network over time.

How It Works

A trusted network, built for institutions.

Every institution runs its own secure LUMEN node. Records move through signed channels and are verified by any citizen, at any time.

Step 1

Institution Node

court · ministry · agency

Step 2

Signing & Sealing

ed25519 · sha-256

Step 3

Network Ledger

append-only · replicated

Step 4

Public Verify

QR · hash · ID

For Institutions

Built with the institutions that will use it.

LUMEN is public infrastructure, co-developed with Ethiopian courts, ministries, oversight bodies, and service agencies. If your institution handles legal records, citizen services, evidence, or filings — you belong on this network.

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1Ministry of Justice
2Federal Supreme Court
3Office of the Attorney General
4Federal Police
5Ministry of Innovation & Tech
6Regional High Courts

Our Principles

Non-negotiable commitments.

Sovereign

Hosted on Ethiopian infrastructure. Governed by Ethiopian law. Data never leaves the homeland.

Auditable

Open protocols. Reproducible proofs. Any citizen can verify any record with a single hash.

Open

APIs and reference clients in the public commons. Institutions extend the network, not lock it.

One record. One source of truth.

Join the institutions building Ethiopia's digital public backbone.