Google Unveils $9m Fund, Cable Connectivity Hubs, AI Tools For Students

Google, portion reaffirming the committedness to Africa, has unveiled caller subsea cablegram connectivity hubs, $9 cardinal Fund and Artificial Intelligence(AI) tools for students.

To this end, it is gathering connected astir 2 decades of concern with infrastructure, learning and innovation and skills announcements, including 4 strategical subsea cablegram connectivity hubs successful the north, south, eastbound and westbound regions of Africa – creating caller integer corridors wrong Africa and betwixt Africa and the world.
Google said that assemblage students (18 oregon older) crossed the continent tin get escaped one-year subscriptions to the Google AI Pro plan. The program is starting with Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

It besides disclosed that $9 cardinal volition beryllium funded for African universities and probe institutions for the coming year.

According to Google, “the latest commitments absorption connected empowering Africa’s adjacent procreation done AI, unlocking opportunities, and expanding the innovation capableness of young Africans.
They screen net connectivity, youth-led learning and innovation, and skills training.”

Speaking connected this development, Alex Okosi, Google’s managing manager successful Africa, said: “Africa’s integer system holds immense potential, and it volition beryllium driven by the endowment and ingenuity of its adjacent generation. Today’s announcements, spanning AI education, precocious tools for students, and expanded connectivity, are a unified concern successful the upward trajectory of the continent.

“We are committed to providing the foundational infrastructure, the cutting-edge tools, and the fiscal enactment indispensable for Africa’s younker to innovate, lead, and physique a thriving integer world.”

Google’s sustained committedness to Africa included driving connectivity; grooming much than 7 cardinal radical crossed the continent successful integer skills to enactment the aboriginal workforce; and supporting 153 startups from 17 African nations done the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa, helping them rise $300 cardinal and make 3,500 jobs.

AI creates an unprecedented accidental to payment everyone, and Google is committed to making that a world for people, businesses and communities crossed Africa. Today’s announcements, it said, are different illustration of however Google continues to grow connectivity, summation merchandise entree and skills crossed the continent and alteration African-led innovation – with much to come.