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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

🚀 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

🚀 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

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

🚀 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

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…

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://builder.aws.com/content/3CQJ9SY2gNvSZKWd3tEq8ny7kSr/aideas-finalist-ivy-the-worlds-first-offline-capable-proactive-ai-tutoring-agent Sign in with Google, hit Like. That's it. @GDGAddis

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📣 New co-working space in Addis Ambar Workspace ✅ High-speed internet ✅ Both shared and private desks ✅ Meeting room ✅ 24/7 access Their current price is 400 ETB/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. @GDGAddis

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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

🚀 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

And here's Nathan's talk

Here's Kinfish's PPT too

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.

Thank 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.