Betelhem Dessie’s Biography, Net Worth, Fact, Career, Awards and Life Story
Betelhem Dessie got government recognition for her work in her community at an early age. Consequently, she was interviewed by multiple local and national media platforms. After moving from Harar to Addis Ababa with her parents, Betelhem was employed as a developer for the government at the age of twelve by the Ethiopian Information Network Security Agency (INSA) from 2011 to 2012.
Betelhem Dessie is the founder and CEO of Anyone Can Code (ACC). ACC is done in collaboration with iCog Labs, an Ethiopian research and development company that focuses on Artificial Intelligence. It trains children aged six to thirteen on topics ranging from robotics and AI to programming. Another program Betelhem works on in iCog Labs is Solve IT. She works with more than eighty young people to find solutions to society’s problems using technology. She has also trained forty girls from Girls Can Code, a United States Embassy project. Among previous software programming projects attributed to her is an application that maps irrigation projects in Ethiopia. It was developed for use in government.
In 2018, Betelhem was a third year Software Engineering student at Addis Ababa University. She was recently named one of the young African innovators to watch in 2019 by Quartz Africa.
