GDG Addis
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GDG Addis (Google Developers Group Addis) is a community of passionate software developers and IT enthusiasts in Ethiopia. Join the discussion at https://t.me/GDG_Addis.
Show more📈 Analytical overview of Telegram channel GDG Addis
Channel GDG Addis (@gdgaddis) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 10 318 subscribers, ranking 11 508 in the Technologies & Applications category and 3 218 in the Ethiopia region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 10 318 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 08 September, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by 112 over the last 30 days and by -1 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Not verified
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 50.79%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 14.82% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 5 242 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 1 529 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 15.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as addis, ethiopia, gdgaddi, wtmiwd, developer.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“GDG Addis (Google Developers Group Addis) is a community of passionate software developers and IT enthusiasts in Ethiopia. Join the discussion at https://t.me/GDG_Addis.”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 09 September, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Technologies & Applications category.
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Channel Posts
AI Builder Hackathon is coming to Addis Ababa!
Calling all developers, engineers, and AI builders.
On August 29–30, 2026, Hackation is bringing its AI Builder Hackathon to Addis Ababa for the first time outside Germany.
The challenge: Build the Agent - Agentic AI for Real-World Operations.
Tracks:
⚙️ Workflow Automation Agent
📊 Intelligent Data Pipeline
💡 Open Innovation
Build a working AI solution, connect with builders and mentors, and showcase what you create.
🌟 Top builders may be invited to a 3-month working contract with the Hackation team and partners.
📅 August 29–30, 2026
📍 Magnolia Hotel & Conference Centre, Bole Atlas
💻 Solo builders and teams are welcome
🎟️ Free — limited spots
Register: https://pretix.hackation.de/Hackation/Hack2026.Addis/
Learn more: https://hackation.de
#GDGAddis #WTMAddis #AgenticAI #Hackathon #AIBuilder
| 2 | ML / OCR Engineer Paid Internship
We are looking for an ML/OCR engineering intern to help digitize printed Amharic and Ge’ez book pages into structured data.
You will work on OCR, computer vision, and human-in-the-loop annotation systems for low-resource scripts. This is a hands-on role for someone comfortable experimenting with models, evaluating results, and improving a real pipeline over time.
What you’ll do:
* Build and fine-tune OCR models for printed Amharic and Ge’ez textImprove text detection, recognition, and page layout analysis
* Train object detection and classification models for document-processing tasks
* Help design a human-in-the-loop annotation workflow, including active learning and error correction loops
* Evaluate model performance, benchmark experiments, and ship measurable improvements each cycle
* Use vision-language models or LLM APIs where helpful for weak supervision, annotation drafting, or quality checks.
Requirement
* Strong Python skills
* Experience training machine learning or computer vision models.
* Familiarity with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
* Interest in OCR, document understanding, or low-resource language processing.
* Ability to run experiments, analyze errors, and communicate results clearly.
Nice to have
* Prior OCR experience, especially text detection, recognition, or layout analysis
* Experience with Tesseract fine-tuning, TrOCR, PaddleOCR, EasyOCR, or custom CTC/transformer OCR pipelines
* Experience with object detection models such as YOLO, DETR, or similar architectures
* Experience working with low-resource scripts or languages
* Familiarity with active learning or human-in-the-loop annotation tools
* Familiarity with vision LLM APIs for drafting, weak supervision, or validation
* Audio ML experience, such as segmentation, forced alignment, or Whisper
Send your resume at: yemane@ibrave.co | 2 197 |
| 3 | 🚀 BUILD WITH AI ADDIS 2026 — Second & Final Session is Today!
GDG Addis is excited to welcome you back for the closing session of BUILD WITH AI ADDIS 2026, happening today evening at 6:00 PM.
After an amazing first session on Prompt Engineering and building a SaaS website with Gemini CLI, we’re ready to continue the journey with more hands-on AI learning.
Today’s session will cover:
🔹 Antigravity
🔹 ADK — AI Agent Development Kit
🔹 AI Agent Workflows
🔹 Hands-on Codelabs
Participants who joined the first session also received GCP credits to keep building and experimenting with Google Cloud.
Join us this evening as we close BUILD WITH AI ADDIS 2026 with more learning, building, and community energy.
See you at 6:00 PM! 💡🤖
#BuildWithAI #BuildWithAIAddis2026 #GDGAddis #GoogleDeveloperGroups #Gemini #GoogleCloud #GCP #AI #AIAgents #AddisAbaba #TechCommunity | 2 561 |
| 4 |  🚀 Meet Our Featured Speaker for Build with AI Addis 2026!
We’re excited to feature Saheed Adewumi, a Google Developer Expert (GDE Cloud), Software Engineer, and Cloud Engineer passionate about building innovative solutions and empowering developer communities.
Saheed will be leading hands-on virtual sessions on Prompt Engineering, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, and AI Agent Development with ADK as part of Build with AI Addis 2026.
📅 May 16 & 23, 2026
⏰ 12:00 LT / 6:00 PM EAT
📍 Virtual Event
🎟 RSVP here 👉 https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-build-with-ai-addis-2026-2026-05-16/
#BuildWithAI #GDGAddis #GoogleCloud #AI #Gemini #ADK | 3 471 |
| 5 |  Build with AI Addis 2026 is coming! 🚀
A great opportunity to explore modern AI workflows, Gemini CLI, and AI Agent Development with ADK through hands-on virtual sessions led by a Google Developer Expert in Cloud.
📅 May 16 & 23, 2026
⏰ 12:00 LT / 6:00 PM EAT
📍 Virtual Event
🎟 RSVP here 👉 https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-build-with-ai-addis-2026-2026-05-16/
#BuildWithAI #GDGAddis #AI #GoogleCloud | 2 846 |
| 6 |  🚀 Build with AI Addis 2026 is here!
Join GDG Addis for an interactive virtual workshop series focused on modern AI development using Google AI technologies, led by a Google Developer Expert in Cloud.
This two-part hands-on session will explore Prompt Engineering, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, and AI Agent Development with ADK through live demonstrations, guided workflows, and practical development sessions.
From building smarter AI workflows to exploring agentic development and deployment practices, participants will get practical exposure to some of Google’s latest AI tools and technologies.
📅 May 16 & 23, 2026
⏰ 12:00 LT / 6:00 PM EAT
📍 Virtual Event
🎟 RSVP now, save your spot 👉 https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-build-with-ai-addis-2026-2026-05-16/ and share with a friend who wants to learn and build with AI.
#BuildWithAI #GDGAddis #AI #Gemini #ADK #GoogleCloud #PromptEngineering #AIAgents | 2 725 |
| 7 | We are delighted to announce that Ivy has officially won the Global Innovation Award in the AWS 10,000 AIdeas Challenge 🔥. We would love thank the GDG Addis community for your invaluable votes and support this young, talented developer; Natnael Getenew.
https://builder.aws.com/content/3D5gTWIjP2zvKncBZBCs849xRqn/aws-10000-aideas-competition-meet-the-winners
@GDGAddis | 2 897 |
| 8 |  Natnael Getenew is a 24-year-old developer from Addis Ababa, and his AI project just made the finals of the largest AI competition in history.
Ivy is an AI tutor that works completely offline for Ethiopian students with zero internet access. It runs on cheap phones and teaches in Amharic.
Out of 10,000+ projects submitted worldwide to AWS AIdeas 2025, Ivy made the top 50. Teams from Silicon Valley, London, Bangalore - backed by full engineering teams - and here he is, one dev from Addis.
The winner is decided by community support.
He needs 20 seconds from you:
👉 https://lnkd.in/eWUkzgQR
Sign in with Google, hit Like. That's it.
@GDGAddis | 3 817 |
| 9 |  🚨Get 10% OFF your monthly desk!
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📍Rediet Building, 5th Floor, Kazanchis, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Tiktok / Website | 3 591 |
| 10 |  📣 New co-working space in Addis
Amber Workspace
✅ High-speed internet
✅ Both shared and private desks
✅ Meeting room
✅ 24/7 access
Their current price is 400/day for shared desks.
📍Summit 72, In front of Noc Gas Station, GetAs Building, 2nd floor.
It is an ideal working space if you live around Summit, CMC, Ayat, Goro, and Bole Arabsa. | 4 281 |
| 11 |  We’re looking for passionate volunteers to join our community 🇪🇹✨
Love sharing knowledge 📚, exploring tech 💻, and contributing to platforms like Wikipedia 🌍?
To Fill out a form 👉 CLICK HERE
🧭 Explore more on our PAGE
📸 Follow Us on Instagram for updates | 3 666 |
| 12 |  Cybersecurity is one of the fastest-growing fields in tech - and it needs people like you.
Gain the skills to protect the digital world.
Train online. Learn fast. Start strong.
👉🏾 Register now: shorturl.at/MD6Hr
#ALXEthiopia #ALXAfrica #ALXTribe #AIwithALX #Cybersecurity #dohardthings #lifeatalx | 2 213 |
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| 14 | Google Africa is inviting members of Google Developer Group Addis to take part in an exclusive partnership event between Google and the African Union Commission taking place on February 17, 2026, at 11:00 AM at the AUC Headquarters. The event will be a great opportunity to learn about the latest AI technologies from Google and their relevance in strengthening Africa’s digital economy. To participate, please fill out this form before Wednesday, 11 February:- https://forms.gle/4aHK7K8NdhbX9jPz9 | 3 203 |
| 15 |  🚀 Unlock the full potential of Gemini and Anti Gravity IDE
The Gemini 3 Hackathon by Google Deep Mind is live
Go beyond chat wrappers. Build systems that plan, execute, and self-correct—with real-time vision, audio, and reasoning.
💰 $100K prize pool
🗓️ Deadline: Feb. 9, 2026
Start building → bit.ly/gemini3hacks25t | 4 322 |
| 16 |  And here's Nathan's talk | 1 860 |
| 17 |  Here's Kinfish's PPT too | 1 705 |
| 18 |  While prepping the PPT for my talk for DevFest I noticed a feature in Google Slides to convert your PPTs to videos.
It actually adds voiceovers, music and more and it's such a good feature. I can imagine how useful it could be on PPTs from Unis. | 1 643 |
| 19 |  +3Thank you all for attending today’s DevFest ’25! It was amazing to see the energy, enthusiasm, and passion you bring to this community. From the fun activities to the great conversations, today truly showed the power of coming together as a tech community.
A huge shout-out to our sponsors ALX and Gebeya, our awesome speakers, panelists, and workshop facilitators for sharing their knowledge, as well as our incredible volunteers who worked behind the scenes to make everything run smoothly. And most importantly, thank you for showing up and being part of this journey.
We’re excited to keep bringing you more impactful events that connect the tech ecosystem and create opportunities to learn, grow, and network together. We’d also love to hear your thoughts, so please share your feedback through the email sent earlier today. | 3 062 |
| 20 |  🌟 Meet the DevFest Addis 2025 Speakers
Tomorrow, we bring together keynote leaders, founders, engineers, and Google Developer Experts for a full day of learning, building, and meaningful conversations around AI, Cloud, Security, and scalable systems.
Please find the final agenda attached and plan your sessions ahead.
https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-addis-presents-gdg-addis-devfest25/
🕘 Check-in opens at 9:00 AM (3:00 LT)
📅 Saturday, December 13, 2025
📍 ALX Ethiopia | Lideta Hub, 4th Floor
We look forward to welcoming you to DevFest Addis 2025.
See you tomorrow!
Powered by Google Developer Groups, Gebeya, and ALX
#DevFestAddis #gdg_addis #DeveloperCommunity #AI #Cloud #AfricaTech #gebeya #alx_ethiopia | 3 191 |
