Betelhem Dessie (Amharic: ቤተልሔም ደሴ; born 1999) is an Ethiopian web and mobile technologies developer.

[1] Betelhem has been named "the youngest pioneer in Ethiopia's fast emerging tech scene" by CNN.

In her interview with the Ethiopian digital news platform Addis Insight, Betelhem tells a story of how she asked her father for money to celebrate her 9th birthday.

[3] 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)[4] from 2011 to 2012.

[5] iCog-ACC is done in collaboration with iCog Labs,[6] 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.