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Social media in Ethiopian finance

Module 01 / 5 · 45 min · Free preview

See why Ethiopian banks and microfinance institutions run official pages, which platforms customers use, what they expect, and the rules that frame every post.

In this module you will learn to

  • Explain the four jobs an official social media page does for a financial institution
  • Describe the role of the main platforms Ethiopian customers use, including Telegram
  • List what customers expect from a bank page and how good and bad pages differ
  • Name the Ethiopian laws and NBE rules that apply to a bank's social media

Built on

  • Erudite Africa course specification: 4.h Social Media Management, Level 1 Beginner (October 2026)
  • Erudite Africa: Training Module, Ethiopian Context, programme overview and regulatory register (October 2026)
  • NBE Instruction FCPED/142/26 (21 April 2026) on customer fraud awareness campaigns; National Bank of Ethiopia Proclamation No. 1359/2025; financial consumer protection directive reported as FCP/01/2020
  • Capital Market Proclamation No. 1248/2021
  • Ethiopian laws as cited in the course specification: Personal Data Protection Proclamation (reported as No. 1321/2024), Hate Speech and Disinformation Prevention Proclamation No. 1185/2020, Computer Crime Proclamation No. 958/2016, Advertisement Proclamation No. 759/2012

Examples and organizations are fictional. Apply your own organization's approved policies.