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"It doesn’t matter if you went to a great university – what matters is if you have a computer, access to the internet and the drive to achieve."
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Betelhem Dessie
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Betelhem Dessie is an Ethiopian web and mobile technologies developer. She is currently a Founder and CEO of iCog- Anyone Can Code (ACC). She owns four patented projects individually and an additional three in collaboration. Betelhem has been named "the youngest pioneer in Ethiopia's fast emerging tech scene" by CNN.
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"Teaching young girls coding and seeing them become confident and inspired reminded me of how I felt when I started coding."
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"Parents have an expectation of what you should be — if you’re a good student, you’re a doctor, you’re not an engineer or in the computer science field... They haven’t seen any female being in STEM and being successful."
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"The boys imagine more, they want to do something that’s big and inspired, the girls they really want to help their community from the core."
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"Unless you really are in the industry, there is no one to look up to in technology."
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"My aim is to democratize technology."
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