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YouTube Music Lands in Naija!

From the Coachella livestream to popular videos like Wizkid’s "Joro", Burna boy’s "On The Low", and Drake’s "God's plan" people come to YouTube to be part of music culture and discover new music.

But YouTube was made for watching, which meant fans have had to jump back and forth between multiple music apps and YouTube. Those days will soon be over. Today, we’re excited to bring YouTube Music to Nigeria.

YouTube Music is a new music streaming service made for music listening, on top of the magic of YouTube: making the complete world of music easier to explore and more personalized than ever. Whether you want to listen, watch or discover - all the ways music moves you can be found in one place. 

Here are six reasons we think you’re gonna like YouTube Music:
  • It’s ALL here. Not just music videos, but official albums, singles, remixes, live performances, covers and hard-to-find music you can only get on YouTube. 
  • Recommendations built for you. A home screen that dynamically adapts to provide recommendations based on what you’ve played before, where you are and what you’re doing. At the gym workin’ on that fitness? Escaping during your commute? The right music is right here, built just for you. 
  • Thousands of playlists across any genre, mood or activity. That means no matter what kind of music you like, where you are, what you’re doing, or what mood you’re in, you can easily find the right playlist for that moment. Try “RELEASED” to discover new music or “Afrobeats Hotlist” to get the rhythm flowing. 
  • Smart Search so we’ll find the song, even if you can’t remember what it’s called. Try “that billionaire song” or “That rap song with flute” - We got you. You can also search by lyrics (even if they’re wrong). It’s that “bode thomas” right? 
  • The hottest videos. The hottest videos in the world right now are right there, on their own dedicated Hotlist screen. And with YouTube Music Premium you can seamlessly transition between a song and its music video for uninterrupted listening and watching with a simple tap of a button. 
  • No internet? No problem. Get YouTube Music Premium to listen ad-free, in the background and on-the-go with downloads. Plus, your Offline Mixtape automatically downloads songs you love just in case you forgot to.

While fans can enjoy the new ad-supported version of YouTube Music for free, we’re also launching YouTube Music Premium, a paid membership that gives you background listening, downloads and an ad-free experience for [N900] a month. Music fans can get one month free of YouTube Music Premium here, ([N900] per month after, [N1,400] per month for a Family Plan).

YouTube Premium also launches today
Starting today, you can also upgrade to YouTube Premium, providing members with the benefits of Music Premium, plus ad-free, background, and downloads across all of YouTube. You can also binge-watch YouTube Originals shows and movies, including the hit series Cobra Kai and many more. Try YouTube Premium free for one month here, ([N1,100] per month after, [N1,700] per month for a Family Plan).

Google Play Music subscribers will automatically receive access to YouTube Music Premium at their current price. Nothing is changing with Google Play Music - you'll still be able to access all of your purchased music, uploads and playlists in Google Play Music just like always.

YouTube Music and YouTube Premium are rolling out to users in Nigeria starting today. Get the new YouTube Music from the Play Store and App Store today or check out the web player at music.youtube.com. You can sign up for YouTube Premium at youtube.com/premium.

Posted by the YouTube Music Team

Funding 21 news projects in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey


Finding new and meaningful ways to engage readers is a hot topic for news organizations of any size, and the first Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa prompted a myriad of different approaches. The GNI Innovation Challenges, part of Google’s $300 million commitment to help journalism thrive in the digital age, saw news innovators step forward with new thinking. In South Africa, Daily Maverick proposed a “relevancy engine” that would aggregate data feeds about reader behavior for small and medium publishers. In Jordan, podcast startup Sowt looked to tackle the challenge with a new hosting platform for news podcasts.


We launched the Middle East, Turkey and Africa Innovation Challenge last June, and received 527 applications from 35 countries. After a rigorous review, a round of interviews and a final jury selection process, we selected 21 projects from 13 countries to receive $1.93 million in funding. There are 7 projects from Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Africa respectively. 


The call for applications listed four criteria: impact, feasibility, innovation and inspiration, and the successful projects clearly demonstrated all four. Here are just a few of the awardees (you can find the full list on our website):
  • Demirören Teknoloji Anonim Şirketi in Turkey wants to solve the tagging process for the Turkish language to help with the news discovery distribution process. Currently this work requires cumbersome manual work from their journalists, taking a precious share of their time. 
  • Daily news publisher Israel Hayom will be creating a loyalty scheme where online users get real-life rewards in the form of tickets or money-saving offers. 
  • Nas News wants to engage Iraq’s citizens in video debates for positive change with a mobile-first social and news platform that allows users to read and debate on local and national topics.
  • L'Orient le Jour in Lebanon wants to build a new loyalty plan to offer special and personalized privileges to subscribers via an interactive platform.
  • The National in the UAE will develop a service that converts quality text news into audio in real time, in both English and Arabic.
  • Ringier Africa Digital Publishing in Nigeria will be increasing personalization across their platform using a blend of prediction, recommendation and local information pages to increase user engagement.

A second round of the Middle East, Turkey and Africa Innovation Challenge will open for applications later in the year: Watch for details on our website..

Posted by Sarah Hartley, Recipients Manager, GNI Innovation Challenges



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Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison on Google Arts & Culture

Nelson Mandela, photograph by Andrew Zuckerman, copyright Nelson R. Mandela, from the collection of: Nelson Mandela Foundation
Thirty years ago today, Madiba was returned back to the people after having served 27 years in prison as he fought the apartheid rule. Millions of people around the world had campaigned for his release for decades, and were finally able to watch him walk out of Victor Verster Prison and give his first address at Cape Town city hall. The 11th of February is a symbol of the ‘long walk to freedom,’ and a testament of how Madiba paved a new path for hope.


To commemorate this day, The Nelson Mandela Foundation and Google Arts & Culture have collaborated to launch a digital project allowing everyone to be inspired by Madiba’s life and legacy at g.co/longwalktofreedom. As one of the first partners to launch on Google Arts & Culture in 2012, we showcase our joint commitment towards preserving Madiba’s legacy and sharing it online with everyone, everywhere. By harnessing the power of technology, we invite you to join Madiba's journey through over 1000 high resolution photographs and videos, over thirty digital stories and two virtual tours with Street View.
Nelson Mandela walks out of the gates of Victor Verster prison, 11 February 1990, photograph by Gideon Mendel / Courtesy of ARTCO Gallery, from the collection of the Nelson Mandela Foundation
The digital project brings together activists, leaders and people key to carrying on Madiba’s legacy through intimate stories and photographs. Listen to Verne Harris, Madiba’s personal archivist, narrate his memories of the day and why he thinks it’s crucial for the collective memory of South Africa. Even if you were born free in the 2000s, Zulaikha Patel, an activist for gender equality, argues there is still a long way to go. Listen to her being inspired by that day, and how it has fueled her passion for activism and human rights.


As you’re exploring Madiba's life and legacy and how he has influenced many people alive today, be sure to step into the Cape Town City Hall in VR. Take a few moments to reflect on where you are today, and what you want to create for the generations to come. As Madiba said “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”



Posted by Sello Hatang, Chief Executive, The Nelson Mandela Foundation and Fortune Mgwili-Sibanda, Google Policy Manager


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A Safer Internet For Africa

Safety is one the most important things for humans, and it is critical that online safety is top of mind for us. That is why today across Africa, we join many organizations in celebrating Safer Internet Day - an initiative that originated in the European Union two decades ago and is now observed in some 150 countries worldwide.


A third of internet users are children, and keeping them safe online is a high priority ongoing process. Through our philanthropic arm, Google.org, we are launching a pan-African 1,000,000 USD fund to support innovative project ideas by nonprofits and social enterprises around digital literacy and online safety of children, young people and families. The fund will be administered by a third party partner, on behalf of Google.org. You can submit an expression of interest to access the grant here.


Providing organisations with funds to help support the online safety efforts for children is one thing, we are also looking at expanding programs around internet literacy through our landmark program for kids, Be Internet Awesome. Starting today, the program will launch in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa today. By working with our partners across the region to teach kids how to be safe, confident explorers of the online world.

“Be Internet Awesome” is designed to help children practice smart tactics for analysing and evaluating information, sharing media with caution, protecting and securing private data, and handling cyberbullying, for example.



Protecting you wherever you are
Online safety isn’t just for children, grown ups also need to be cautious online and how they interact with the web. Last year we launched a refreshed Google Play Protect experience with built-in malware protection for Android devices. This has prevented more than 1.9 billion potentially harmful application installs from unknown sources since it was announced.

In August 2019, we made our strongest security program more accessible by enabling you to use your Android or iOS phone as a security key instead of a standard physical security key that you need to carry around. You don’t need to be an expert in computer security to stay safe, which is why we have designed the best-in-class security features to keep you protected against evolving online threats wherever you are on Google and across the internet.

In 2019 we launched our online safety roadshow and expanded our Web Rangers club, enabling us to reach over 100,000 kids, parents and educators. We've also built products such as Password Checkup, which scans hundreds of millions of passwords every day to warn you if your passwords have been compromised anywhere on the web. More than 100 million users have run the Password Checkup since we launched it in 2019.

Online safety is everybody’s concern. Celebrate Safer Internet Day with us through getting a Security Checkup, or try our Phishing Quiz. If you’re a parent, you could set digital ground rules for your children with Family Link, or share your top tips online with the #SID2020 hashtag. At Google, we’re constantly building, developing and investing in tools and projects to help you and your family stay safe. To learn more about our resources to keep you and your family safe, please visit the Google Safety Center.


Posted by Mojolaoluwa Aderemi-Makinde, Head, Brand & Reputation, Google Africa

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Announcing our first developer Space in Africa

Today, we launched our first Google Developers Space on the African continent, in Lagos, Nigeria. The Google Developers Space is a hub for African developers, entrepreneurs and startups and will house the Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa.



Making good on our commitment 
Back in 2017 our CEO, Sundar Pichai, made a commitment to African entrepreneurs to start the Launchpad Accelerator Africa program and launch a space to house these efforts in Nigeria. The Google Developers Space is the realisation of that commitment, and will provide a hub where entrepreneurs, developers, mentors, VCs and investors can connect and collaborate with each other.

To make sure we took the needs of the African tech ecosystem into account, we partnered and co-located with Impact Hub to bring the Space to life and worked with a local company, Spacefinish to design and create an environment that fosters collaboration and innovation.


Starting today, members of the African tech community can use this Space for free. In addition to housing Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa, the Space will support developer meetups, training, experts office hours, Women in tech events, Startup programs (outside of Launchpad), partner events that support the wider entrepreneur and developer ecosystem, as well as Google initiatives for empowering people through digital skills training.
Since the Launchpad Accelerator Africa programme kicked off in 2018, we have worked with 47 startups from 17 African countries: Algeria, Botswana, Cameroon, Côte D’Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. They have collectively raised millions of dollars in investment, and created hundreds of jobs. 



Continued support for Africa’s startups and developers
The launch of this space demonstrates our continued commitment to the Sub-Saharan African startup and developer ecosystems. As part of our support for developers we run programs such as Google Developer Groups and Women Techmakers, providing training and support for developers aligned with real-life job competency requirements. Community groups engage in activities like Study Jams - study groups for developers. 


There are 173 active Google Developer Groups (GDGs) in Africa, which provide an opportunity for developers to meet other developers with similar interests at GDG meetup events, which include talks on a wide range of technical topics and hands-on workshops. GDGs also host DevFests - community-led developer events focused on community building and learning about Google’s technologies. Last year, we saw more than 100 DevFest events held across Africa. The continent is also home to 135 Developer Student Clubs (DSCs) - university-based community groups for students interested in Google developer technologies. Our Women Techmakers initiative, which enables women in technology to thrive by providing visibility, community and resources, has over 150 chapters across 25 countries in Africa.

Africa’s startup ecosystem is growing and we’re looking forward to working with startups and other players in the ecosystem from across the continent at the Space.



Posted by Onajite Emerhor, Head of Operations Launchpad Accelerator Africa



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Accompagner la croissance des start-up et des développeurs : Google ouvre son Espace développeurs en Afrique

Aujourd’hui, nous avons inauguré notre premier Google Developers Space sur le continent africain, à Lagos, au Nigeria. Le Google Developers Space est un centre d’excellence pour les développeurs, les entrepreneurs et les start-up basés en Afrique. Il abritera également le Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa.



Respecter notre engagement 
En 2017, Sundar Pichai, notre PDG, s’est engagé auprès des entrepreneurs africains à lancer le programme Launchpad Accelerator Africa et à créer un espace pour accueillir ces initiatives au Nigeria. Le Google Developers Space est la concrétisation de cet engagement et constituera un centre d’excellence où les entrepreneurs, les développeurs, les mentors, les sociétés de capital-risque et les investisseurs pourront se rencontrer et collaborer. 

Pour bien prendre en compte les besoins de l’écosystème technologique africain, nous nous sommes associés à Impact Hub et nous sommes installés à la même adresse pour donner vie à l’Espace. Par ailleurs, nous avons travaillé avec Spacefinish, une entreprise locale, pour concevoir et créer un environnement propice à la collaboration et à l’innovation.

Dès aujourd’hui, les membres de l’écosystème technologique africain peuvent utiliser gratuitement cet espace véritablement dédié aux professionnels de ce continent. En plus d’abriter le Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa, l’espace accueillera les rencontres de développeurs, des sessions de formation, les consultations par les experts, les événements « Women in tech », les programmes pour start-up (en dehors de Launchpad), les événements organisés par les partenaires qui apportent leur soutien à l’écosystème plus large des entrepreneurs et des développeurs, ainsi qu'aux initiatives de Google destinées à favoriser l’autonomisation des personnes par la formation aux compétences numériques.

Depuis le lancement du programme Launchpad Accelerator Africa en 2018, nous avons travaillé avec 47 start-ups de 17 pays africains : Afrique du Sud, Algérie, Botswana, Cameroun, Côte d’Ivoire, Égypte, Éthiopie, Ghana, Kenya, Maroc, Nigeria, Ouganda, Rwanda, Sénégal, Tanzanie, Tunisie et Zimbabwe. Collectivement ils ont recueilli des millions de dollars d’investissements et créé des centaines d’emplois. 


Un soutien sans faille aux start-up et aux développeurs africains
L’inauguration de cet espace est une autre façon pour nous de montrer notre engagement permanent en faveur des écosystèmes des start-up et des développeurs basés en Afrique subsaharienne. Dans le cadre du soutien que nous apportons aux développeurs, nous menons des programmes tels que les groupes de développeurs Google et les Women Techmakers, en proposant aux développeurs de la formation et un accompagnement en phase avec les exigences du monde professionnel en matière de compétences. Des groupes communautaires mettent en place des activités comme Study Jams- des groupes de travail animés par des développeurs. 


Il existe 173 Google Developer Groups (GDG - Groupes de développeurs Google) actifs en Afrique, qui offrent aux développeurs l'opportunité d'échanger avec des professionnels ayant des centres d'intérêts proches, à l'occasion des rencontres des GDG qui permettent d'aborder toute sorte de sujets techniques et de participer à des ateliers pratiques. Les GDG organisent également des DevFests, des événements destinés aux développeurs, menés par et pour la communauté et axés sur l’apprentissage des technologies Google. Rien que l’année dernière, plus de 100 événements DevFest ont été organisés à travers l’Afrique. Le continent compte également 135 clubs d’étudiants développeurs (DSC) - des groupes universitaires destinés aux étudiants intéressés par les technologies de développement Google. Notre initiative « Women Techmakers », qui permet aux femmes intéressées par les technologies de réussir en leur offrant une visibilité, une communauté et des ressources, compte plus de 150 sections réparties dans 25 pays d’Afrique.



L’écosystème des start-up africaines connaît actuellement un véritable essor. La création de cet espace est notre façon de l’accompagner et d’y participer. Nous nous réjouissons à la perspective de travailler avec des start-up et d’autres acteurs de cet écosystème de tout le continent dans le cadre de cet Espace. 

Publié par : Onajite Emerhor, responsable des opérations du programme Launchpad Accelerator Africa

Google Startup Week Lagos – helping Launchpad Accelerator Africa startups take their businesses global

This week, we witnessed a number of Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa startups take several steps closer to achieving their goals. Class 4 of Launchpad Accelerator Africa graduated in Lagos at the first-ever Google Startup Week in Nigeria, while select Launchpad Accelerator Africa alumni had a chance to pitch for funding from some of Africa & the UK’s top venture capitalists (VCs). The event featured startups from across Africa.

The alumni, from classes 1, 2 and 3, are fresh out of a three-month Google for Startups UK Africa Immersion Programme in London. This is a 12-week immersion programme designed to bring the best of Google and the London startup ecosystem to tech companies from Africa that do not yet have a presence in the UK.

Google for Startups UK Africa, in partnership with Launchpad Accelerator Africa, aims to connect high potential early-stage startups with dedicated support to help them take their startup to the next level.

Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa focuses on working with startups that are setting out to tackle some of Africa’s biggest challenges. It’s built into the selection process. As Launchpad Accelerator Africa, we believe African companies can solve Africa’s problems, and we want to help them do that.

Every year, Africa’s economic growth continues to strengthen. Google for Startups has put its weight behind supporting the continent’s startups as they continue to build great products and tackle key global social issues. This is an incredibly exciting space, which is very relevant to UK ecosystem and investors.

During Google Startup Week Lagos, the Launchpad Accelerator Africa team also celebrated the graduation of Launchpad Accelerator Africa Class 4, which comprises 12 startups from six countries, addressing six different sectors. Between them, they have raised $4.3m, created over 300 jobs and signed up over 110 000 users. These companies had collectively raised in excess of $600 000 before the programme, and have been able to use Launchpad Accelerator Africa to scale their businesses to new levels.

Google Startup Week Lagos was particularly special for me because it provided an opportunity for participants from all 4 classes get a chance to meet, engage with each other, and share their experiences for the first time.

Since Launchpad Accelerator Africa was first announced in late 2017, the programme has worked with 47 startups on their growth journey. These companies have raised millions of dollars in investments and created hundreds of jobs across the continent.
All the selected startups receive working space, and access to expert advisers from Google, Silicon Valley, and Africa. Participants also receive travel and PR support during each three-month programme.

The Class 4 startups graduating at Google Startup Week Lagos, in alphabetical order, are: 
  • Afara Partners (Nigeria): Afara Partners offers platforms that provide services to the financially underserved/excluded.
  • BrandBook (South Africa): BrandBook is a mobile app that incentivises users to take a picture of their receipts, allowing it to harvest consumer purchase behaviour across all channels.
  • Elewa (Kenya): Elewa is a toolkit for establishing scalable high-quality training programs within existing education- or professional institutions.
  • Eversend (Uganda): Eversend is a multi-currency e-wallet that allows you to exchange, spend and send money at the best possible rates. It also includes insurance, virtual debit cards, and bill payments.
  • OZÉ (Ghana): OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era, equipping their owners to make data-driven decisions to improve their performance and access capital. 
  • Phenomenal Technologies (Zimbabwe): Phenomenal Technologies offers low-cost field excursions for learners through virtual reality. 
  • REACH (Nigeria): REACH recognises, categorises and interprets transaction data from SMS and other sources, making this data available as individual financial and market insights.
  • Sortd (South Africa): Sortd aims to re-invent email with the world's first All-in-One productivity suite for Gmail and GSuite.
  • TradeBuza (Nigeria): The TradeBuza is a cloud-based web and mobile application, which digitises contract farming and trade.
  • Tulaa (Kenya): Tulaa is an online-to-offline marketplace for smallholder farmers in Africa.
  • XEND (Nigeria) : XEND allows users to make and receive payments, offline or online.
  • WorkPay (Kenya): WorkPay is a cloud-based employee management and payment solution using the power of mobile and biometrics.


London Immersion Africa Startups:
  • 54gene (Nigeria) - African DNA makes up only 2% of genetic research material used in pharmaceutical research. Founded in 2019, 54gene is creating the world’s first and largest pan-African biobank. 
  • Fieldinsight (Nigeria) - Fieldinsight helps to collect data in a structured manner using mobile and IoT devices. It then aggregates and represents this data through visualisations to help businesses make the best decisions.
  • Kwara (Kenya) - Kwara powers financial cooperatives with technology so they can meet their members needs instantly.
  • OkHi (Kenya) - 4 billion people across emerging markets do not have a physical address, costing economies $175bn a year. Based in Nairobi, OkHi creates digital addresses for people, which they can use (for free) to access reliable business services. 
  • Paps (Senegal) - Paps is an African logistics startup focused on the last mile delivery and domestic markets, with strong client care orientation, allowing live tracking, intelligent address systems and automatic dispatch.
  • Piggyvest (Nigeria) - Piggyvest is an automated savings and investments platform that helps Nigerians save little amounts of money periodically, and then invest those funds for competitive returns.
  • PayGo Energy (Kenya) - PayGo Energy’s connected home gas meter links to a global IoT-based infrastructure for cooking gas delivery within high-density, high-demand urban communities — changing the entire cooking experience for households and unlocking access to clean cooking for a billion people.
  • ThankUCash (Nigeria) - ThankUCash is an analytics and rewards platform built to enable banks and businesses in Africa to acquire, reward and retain loyal customers.
  • Thrive Agric (Nigeria) - Thrive Agric provides farmers with access to finance, data-driven advisory and access to a market upon harvest.
  • Voyc (South Africa) - Voyc is on a mission to accelerate the world's transition towards customer-centricity by making it easy for companies to understand their customers.
Posted by Onajite Emerhor and Fola Olatunji-David, Launchpad Accelerator Africa leads

Helping families in Africa stay safe online

At Google we take online safety very seriously. Educating children on how to be safe and behave wisely online is a priority for us. It’s a responsibility we have willingly embraced, and one that is shared by government, non-profit organizations, the education community and other stakeholders. This is why the annual Web Rangers Africa Summit is important to us, because it brings together learners, teachers, policy-makers, nonprofits and private companies to discuss and find creative solutions on how to scale digital literacy programmes so that more young people and families are empowered with the right information to protect themselves online. 



At the 2019 Web Rangers Summit held in Nairobi, Kenya, we brought together Web Ranger students from South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya, as well as more than 30 of our online safety partners. Over the course of the 2-day summit we discussed the importance of and plans for making information and online safety curriculums easily accessible in schools and to families. We also shared the status of ongoing efforts to expand the Web Rangers program, as well as plans to team up with the Kenya Film Classification Board and the Nigerian National Orientation Agency in 2020 to kickoff a Digital Parenting program aimed at educating guardians, teachers and families on online tools that bring families together to learn, have fun and be safe online.


This year, apart from the Summit, we have advanced our goals to educate and build more awareness on the subject of online safety through roadshows and government partnerships. In October, we partnered with the Cape Town Science Centre to provide grants to local organisations in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa to deliver safety roadshows to students, parents and teachers. Over 36 000 students, 2 500 parents and 1 400 teachers have been trained as a result of this program.

In Nigeria, we partnered with the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council to integrate a new online safety curriculum into the national syllabus for primary and secondary schools, with a goal of reaching 56 million learners (year on year) once it is fully integrated into the school system. Similarly, in South Africa, we are partnering with the Western Cape Education Department to pilot online safety curriculum integration in public high schools in the province. The pilot involves schools in the Cape Winelands and Metro South districts. In Kenya, we have collaborated with CODE-IP Trust, the Ministry of Youth and the Kenya Scouts Association to bring Web Rangers to over 55 000 students countrywide.



With more people and children in Africa coming online, the goal to provide education to help them protect themselves is no longer discretionary but a mandate. While the journey towards achieving this end goal is still far, we’re proud to see the impact being achieved by what has been done already. In the words of Harvard professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, “...small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences".

Posted by Fortune Mgwili-Sibanda, Head, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Sub Saharan Africa




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Titre : Aider les familles africaines à surfer sur Internet en toute sécurité

Chez Google nous prenons très au sérieux la sécurité sur Internet. Sensibiliser les enfants à la sécurité sur Internet et les aider à adopter un comportement adapté constitue une priorité pour nous. C’est une responsabilité que nous sommes prêts à assumer et que nous partageons avec le gouvernement, les organisations à but non lucratif, la communauté éducative et d’autres acteurs. En cela, lévénement annuel du Web Rangers Africa Summit est important pour nous : il rassemble des apprenants, des enseignants, des décideurs politiques, des organisations à but non lucratif et des entreprises privées dans le but d’échanger et de trouver des solutions innovantes sur la façon d’étendre les programmes d'apprentissage numérique. L'objectif est qu’un plus grand nombre de jeunes et de familles disposent des informations nécessaires pour aller sur Internet en toute sécurité.

Lors de l’édition 2019 du Web Rangers Summit qui s’est tenue à Nairobi, au Kenya, nous avons réuni des étudiants participant au programme Web Rangers, qui étaient originaires d’Afrique du Sud, du Nigeria et du Kenya, ainsi que plus de 30 partenaires dans le domaine de la sécurité en ligne. Au cours de ce sommet de deux jours, nous avons expliqué l’importance de rendre l’information et les programmes de sécurité en ligne facilement accessibles dans les écoles et de les diffuser auprès des familles, et présenté des projets dans ce sens. Nous avons aussi fait le point sur les actions en cours pour étendre le programme Web Rangers, ainsi que sur le projet de s’associer au Kenya Film Classification Board et à la Nigerian National Orientation Agency en 2020. Ce partenariat a pour but de lancer un programme d’éducation parentale au numérique avec pour objectif de sensibiliser les tuteurs, les enseignants et les familles aux outils en ligne, lesquels rassemblent les familles pour apprendre, s’amuser et surfer en ligne en toute sécurité.

Cette année, outre le Sommet, nous avons réalisé une partie de nos objectifs d’éducation et de sensibilisation en matière de sécurité sur Internet grâce à des tournées de présentation et à des partenariats avec les gouvernements. Au mois d’octobre, en association avec le Centre des sciences du Cap nous avons octroyé des financements à des organisations locales au Kenya, au Nigeria et en Afrique du Sud pour organiser des tournées d’information sur la sécurité à l’intention des élèves, des parents et des enseignants. Plus de 36 000 élèves, 2 500 parents et 1 400 enseignants ont été formés grâce à ce programme.

Au Nigeria, nous avons établi un partenariat avec le Conseil nigérian pour la recherche et le développement en éducation visant à intégrer un nouveau programme de sécurité sur Internet dans les programmes nationaux des écoles primaires et secondaires, avec l’objectif d’atteindre 56 millions d’apprenants (d’une année sur l’autre) une fois le programme pleinement intégré au système scolaire. De même, en Afrique du Sud, nous travaillons en partenariat avec le Département de l’éducation du Cap-Occidental pour mettre en place une action pilote d’intégration du programme sur la sécurité en ligne dans les établissements secondaires publics de la province. Le projet pilote concerne des écoles des districts de Cape Winelands et de Metro South. Au Kenya, nous avons travaillé en collaboration avec l’organisation CODE-IP, le Ministère de la Jeunesse et l’Association des Scouts du Kenya pour faire passer le nombre de Web Rangers à plus de 55 000 dans tout le pays.

En raison du nombre croissant d’internautes, jeunes et adultes que compte l’Afrique, il est désormais impératif de les aider à se protéger des risques d'Internet. Même si nous sommes encore loin de nos objectifs, nous sommes fiers de voir l’impact des actions menées à ce jour. Pour reprendre les mots du professeur de Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professeur à Harvard, : « les petites victoires, les petits projets, les petites différences font souvent d’énormes différences ».

Poste par Fortune Mgwili-Sibanda, Responsable, Affaires gouvernementales et politiques publiques, Afrique subsaharienne

Google for South Africa: creating a more helpful internet for South Africans


Today, at our first ‘Google for South Africa’ event, we announced products and initiatives to help people in South Africa make more of the opportunities the internet has to offer.


Google Station: high-quality Wi-Fi hotspots in the Cape Flats 
Access to the internet in Africa is growing but it’s still limited. Only 39 percent of Africans have access to the web, compared to 54 percent of people in Asia, 68.9 in Latin America, 87 in Europe and 89 in North America. Many people in Africa don’t have Wi-Fi in their homes, relying instead on the few public Wi-Fi hotspots to connect, communicate and learn.

Today, we’re announcing Google Station for the Cape Flats in the Western Cape: a program to provide fast, free and open Wi-Fi hotspots in partnership with ThinkWifi, an Internet service provider in South Africa.

Google Station is available in more than 100 locations across Langa, Khayelitsha, Gugulethu, Delft, Elsies River, Philippi and more. These areas are some of the most underserved communities with high unemployment and crime rates. By gaining access to information via the internet, we hope that people in these communities will get a more equal opportunity to learn and develop and live more empowered lives.

Bolo and Google Go: Helping you learn and enjoy the best of the web
Google Go makes it easier to discover the best of the internet even on low-RAM smartphones or unstable network connections. Today, we're announcing some updates to make Google Go even more helpful. The Discover feed is now integrated within Google Go to help you stay in the know with your interests, like the latest content on your football team, people of interest, music and news stories. Users are also able to use Google Go’s ‘read out loud’ feature to hear a website or a news story by tapping the play icon when they open a search result.

Starting today, you can access the Google Assistant directly from Google Go. Using only your voice, you can ask Google to call your mum, play the latest Kwesta video, or find the best route to your favourite kota place.

Bolo is a speech-based reading app that helps kids learn how to read in English. It encourages them to read out loud and then provides individual, customised feedback to help improve their reading capabilities. It’s already available in India, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya and today we’re bringing it to South Africa.

Cameos and the Google Assistant: doing more with Google Search and the Assistant
People come to Google Search for information, you want to know more about the world you live and connect with the things and people you like. You are constantly asking questions and searching for answers from celebrities and influential people as well, from where they grew up to how they got their careers started. So, we created Cameos, a selfie-style video app, which allows celebrities and public figures to answer questions about themselves directly within Google Search.

More and more people are searching using their voice, and often they come to Google Assistant for everyday actions like setting timers or learning how to make the best roast chicken. South Africans have been using the Assistant to get things done since we launched it in South Africa. Now the Assistant can help you do more. From today, you can ask your Google Assistant to order you an Uber or read you South African specific news from your favorite local news outlets.


Every day, people in South Africa and around the world turn to Google for help. We hope that the products and updates we're announcing today will make Google even more helpful for getting things done. We remain committed to bringing the transformational power of technology to people everywhere.

Posted by Nitin Gajria, Regional Director, Google Africa




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Google pour l’Afrique du Sud : pour un Internet au service des Sud-Africains
Posté par Nitin Gajria, Directeur régional, Google Afrique

Aujourd’hui, à l’occasion de notre premier événement intitulé « Google pour l’Afrique du Sud », nous avons annoncé le lancement de produits et d’initiatives destinées à aider les Sud-Africains à profiter davantage des possibilités de l’Internet.


Google Station : points d'accès Wi-Fi de haute qualité dans les Cape Flats
Bien que l'accès à Internet gagne du terrain en Afrique, il reste limité. Seuls 39% des Africains ont accès à Internet, contre 54% en Asie, 68,9 % en Amérique latine, 87 % en Europe et 89 % en Amérique du Nord. En Afrique, nombreux sont ceux qui n'ont pas le Wi-Fi chez eux ; ils se servent donc de rares points d'accès Wi-Fi publics pour se connecter, communiquer et apprendre.

Aujourd’hui, nous sommes heureux d’annoncer la mise en place de Station Google dans les Cape Flats, dans la province du Cap-Occidental : ce programme a pour but de fournir des points d’accès Wi-Fi rapides, gratuits et ouverts en partenariat avec ThinkWifi, fournisseur de services Internet en Afrique du Sud.

Google Station est disponible sur une centaine de sites dans les districts de Langa, de Khayelitsha, de Gugulethu, de Delft, d’Elsies River, de Philippi et d’autres encore. Ces quartiers abritent les communautés les moins bien desservies, avec des taux de chômage et de criminalité élevés. En accédant à l’information via Internet, nous espérons que les membres de ces communautés pourront à leur tour bénéficier d’opportunités d’apprentissage et de développement, et prendre davantage leur vie en main.


Bolo et Google Go : vous aider à apprendre et à profiter du meilleur du web
Google Go permet de profiter aisément d’Internet, même sur les smartphones à capacité de mémoire limitée ou avec des connexions capricieuses. Aujourd’hui, nous annonçons un certain nombre de mises à jour qui rendront Google Go encore plus performant. La fonction Discover feed est maintenant intégrée à Google Go pour vous aider à suivre l’actualité qui vous intéresse, comme les derniers résultats de votre équipe de football, les personnalités que vous suivez, la musique et les informations. Les utilisateurs peuvent également utiliser la fonction de lecture à voix haute de Google Go pour « écouter un site Web » ou un article d’actualité en appuyant sur l’icône de lecture lorsqu’ils ouvrent un résultat de recherche.

À partir d’aujourd’hui, vous pouvez accéder à l’Assistant Google directement depuis Google Go. Simplement à la voix, vous pouvez demander à Google d’appeler votre mère, de visionner la dernière vidéo de Kwesta ou de trouver le meilleur itinéraire pour vous rendre chez votre vendeur de kota (sandwich traditionnel) préféré.

Bolo est une appli de lecture basée sur la parole qui aide les enfants à apprendre à lire en anglais. Elle les encourage à lire à voix haute et leur fait ensuite un retour individualisé et personnalisé pour les aider à améliorer leurs capacités de lecture. L’appli est déjà disponible en Inde, au Nigeria, au Ghana et au Kenya et elle arrive aujourd’hui en Afrique du Sud.


Cameos et l’Assistant Google : pour une meilleure utilisation de Google Search et de l’Assistant Google
La fonction Google Search permet de rechercher des informations sur le monde qui vous entoure et de vous connecter à ce qui vous plait et ceux que vous aimez. Parce que constamment vous posez des questions sur les célébrités et personnalités influentes, leur région d’origine et la façon dont elles ont commencé leur carrière, nous avons créé Cameos, une application vidéo de type selfie, qui permet aux célébrités et aux personnalités en vue de répondre directement aux questions à leur sujet dans Google Search.

Vous êtes de plus en plus nombreux à faire des recherches avec la fonction vocale. Vous utilisez par exemple l’Assistant Google au quotidien pour régler une minuterie ou connaître la meilleure recette de poulet rôti. Depuis que nous avons lancé cette fonctionnalité en Afrique du Sud, les Sud-Africains utilisent l’Assistant pour les aider dans leurs tâches du quotidien. Aujourd’hui, l’Assistant vous offre encore davantage de possibilités. Vous pouvez désormais demander à votre Assistant Google de vous commander un Uber ou de vous lire des informations qui concernent l’Afrique du Sud à partir de vos médias préférés.

Chaque jour, en Afrique du Sud et dans le monde entier, les gens se tournent vers Google pour se faire aider. Nous espérons que les produits et les mises à jour que nous annonçons aujourd’hui rendront Google encore plus utile pour faire avancer les choses. Nous maintenons notre engagement à mettre à la portée de tous, partout dans le monde, le pouvoir qu’a la technologie à transformer nos vies.

Google for Kenya: Preserving our culture, and helping Kenyan businesses to grow

Today at our second Google for Kenya event, we announced more products and programs aimed at helping Kenyan businesses to grow and celebrating Kenya’s cultural heritage. Our theme remains “Twatembea pamoja”, walking together with Kenyans.




Launching our online exhibition: “Utamaduni Wetu: Meet the People of Kenya” 
Utamaduni wetu is Swahili for “our culture”. For over a year now Google Arts & Culture has been working with the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) to digitise Kenyan cultural treasures. With 28 museums, sites and monuments, NMK holds the world’s largest collection of Kenya’s cultural and natural heritage, which has never been digitised. The online exhibition - now online at g.co/kenyanculture - is Google Arts & Culture’s most ambitious project in Africa to date featuring treasures such as Swahili siwa side-horn and the Maasai shield. For the first time everybody in Kenya and around the world will be able to explore the past and present stories of Kenya’s communities through over 10,500 high resolution photographs, more than 100 expert-curated exhibits and over 60 Street Views of iconic sites and museums across Kenya.

Women dancing at the annual Turkana festival. From the collection of National Museums of Kenya

User-generated Street View 
Google has continued to invest in Kenya by adding more and more communities to Street View throughout the country, and we now have nearly 50,000 km of imagery showcasing Kenya's beautiful landscapes and locations on Street View. This has been the result of years of work done in collaboration with partners and local guides who help to keep Maps updated with important local information. Through these partnerships, we’ve now added nearly 36,000 businesses in Kenya to Google Maps for the first time. These businesses can now attract new customers from around the country, and even around the world. That’s economic empowerment for Kenya.


These efforts go past Kenya's borders to Zanzibar and Zimbabwe, where Local Guides are coming together to work with the universities, training locals in the skills they need to build and maintain world-class maps. 




Bolo and Gallery Go: learning made easy and a photo gallery that works offline 
Bolo is a speech-based reading app that helps kids learn how to read in English. It encourages them to read out loud and then provides individual, customised feedback to help improve their reading capabilities. It’s already available in India and Nigeria, and today we’re bringing it to Kenya. Bolo uses Google’s existing speech recognition and text-to-speech technology that power the Google Assistant, to serve as a personalised reading tutor for kids, and works even when completely offline.

With the growth of Android, more Kenyans have phones that take pictures. But not everyone has access to reliable, high-speed internet or cloud backup to quickly find a photo.
                                              
Gallery Go is designed for people who don’t have a reliable internet connection. It brings many of the best features of Google Photos on device, to help you find, edit and manage your photos even when you’re offline.

The app keeps your photos automatically organized and make your snaps look their best with easy editing tools such as one-tap auto-enhance. The app is only 10MB to keep your phone light and fast, so that you can spend more time capturing memories. 

Gallery Go is available today on Google Play for devices running Android 8.1 (Oreo) or higher and will come pre-installed as the gallery app on the Itel S15 and select A55 devices, which are available in Kenya.



 Grow with Google Initiatives 
Two years ago, we announced initiatives aimed at getting people in Africa the right skills and tools to make the digital world work for them, their businesses and their communities.

As of today, our digital skills program has trained more than 4 million Africans as we work to reach the 10 million promised. In Kenya, we have trained over 1 million Kenyans on various digital skills relevant to their career goals and business needs. Over 50% of Kenyans trained have seen impact on new jobs, career progression or business growth. This skills development initiative is aimed at unlocking the talent that exists on the continent, equipping our youth for the future of work, and providing them with critical thinking skills that can be applied to create scalable solutions to local problems.

We also aimed to train 60 startups over 3 years with our Launchpad Accelerator Africa program. Since launching last year, 35 startups have graduated, and they’ve created 385 jobs and raised over $19-million. 11 of these are Kenyan startups: Pezesha, Flexpay, Cloud9xp, PayGo Energy, Data Integrated Limited, Kwara, OkHi, Tambua Health Inc., Elewa, Tulaa and WorkPay.



YouTube Gold & Silver Buttons  
Over the past year, we’ve seen an 80% increase in mobile usage of YouTube: more people spending more time watching YouTube videos. This growth is fueled by all of the incredible content that creators are uploading to YouTube. Globally, over 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. 

Today we awarded the Gold Play Button, an award for YouTube channels that surpass 1 Million subscribers, to The Churchill Show. The Churchill Show is the second YouTube channel in Kenya to receive the gold play button after Citizen TV.

Ten Kenyan YouTube content creators who have hit 100,000+ subscribers were awarded the Silver Play Button. They are Sharon Waniz, Alex Mathenge, Wabosha Maxine, Timeless Noel, MCA Tricky, Khaligraph Jones, King Kaka, Bahati, The WaJesus Family and Joanna Kinuthia.

These awards are a testament to the hard work and dedication that these creators have shown in developing their channel to such a professional level.  



We hope that the products and updates we're announcing today will help Kenyans make the most of the Internet, grow the economy and preserve their rich culture and diversity. We remain committed to bringing the transformational power of technology to people everywhere.




Posted by Charles Murito, Country Director Google Kenya



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Google pour le Kenya : Préservant notre culture et aidant les entreprises Kényanes à croître

Aujourd’hui, lors de notre deuxième événement Google pour le Kenya, nous avons annoncé de nouveaux produits et programmes visant à stimuler le développement économique et à célébrer le patrimoine culturel du Kenya. Notre thème reste « Twatembea pamoja » (marcher ensemble avec les Kényans). 




Lancement de notre exposition en ligne : « Utamaduni Wetu : Faites connaissance avec les Kényans »
Utamaduni wetu signifie « notre culture » en Swahili. Depuis plus d’un an, Google Arts & Culture collabore avec les musées nationaux du Kenya (NMK) pour numériser les trésors culturels kényans. Avec 28 musées, sites et monuments, la NMK détient la plus grande collection mondiale du patrimoine culturel et naturel du Kenya, lequel n'a jamais été numérisé. Cette exposition en ligne, désormais accessible sur le site g.co/kenyanculture, est le projet le plus ambitieux de Google Arts & Culture en Afrique à ce jour, avec des trésors tels que le cor Siwa swahili et le bouclier Maasai. Pour la première fois, les Kényans et le monde entier pourront découvrir l’histoire passée et actuelle des communautés du Kenya avec plus de 10 500 photographies haute résolution, plus de 130 expositions organisées par des experts et plus de 60 vues Street View des sites et musées emblématiques du Kenya. 



Vues Street View générées par les utilisateurs

Google continue à investir au Kenya en ajoutant de plus en plus de communautés à Street View dans tout le pays. Nous avons maintenant plus de 50 000 km d’images représentant les superbes paysages et sites du Kenya. Tout ceci est le résultat de plusieurs années de travail en collaboration avec des partenaires et des guides locaux qui contribuent à actualiser Google Maps avec des informations locales importantes. Ces partenariats ont permis d’ajouter environ 36 000 entreprises kényanes dans Google Maps. Désormais, des entreprises peuvent attirer de nouveaux clients de l’ensemble du pays, voire du monde entier et ainsi favoriser la croissance économique du Kenya.

Tout ce travail dépasse les frontières du Kenya pour englober Zanzibar et le Zimbabwe, où des guides locaux se regroupent pour travailler avec les universités et forment les populations locales aux compétences dont elles ont besoin pour créer et actualiser des cartographies de qualité incomparable.



Bolo et Gallery Go: apprendre en toute simplicité et une galerie de photos accessible hors ligne
Bolo est une appli de lecture basée sur la parole qui aide les enfants à apprendre à lire en anglais. Il les encourage à lire à voix haute et leur font ensuite un retour individualisé et personnalisé pour les aider à améliorer leurs capacités de lecture. L’appli déjà disponible en Inde et au Nigeria, arrive aujour’hui au Kenya.

Gallery Go : Avec le succès des Android, de plus en plus de Kenyans possèdent des téléphones qui prennent des photos. Mais tout le monde n'a pas accès à un Internet haut débit fiable ou au stockage sur le cloud pour trouver rapidement une photo. 

Gallery Go est conçue pour ceux qui ne disposent pas d'une connexion Internet fiable. L’appli offre bon nombre des meilleures fonctionnalités de Google Photos sur appareil, pour vous aider à trouver, modifier et gérer vos photos, même lorsque vous êtes hors ligne. 

Elle organise automatiquement vos photos et permet de les retoucher grâce à des outils faciles à utiliser tels que l'auto-amélioration en un seul clic. L'appli ne demande que 10 Mo pour garder un maximum d’espace et de rapidité sur votre téléphone et passer plus de temps à prendre des photos souvenirs. 

Gallery Go est disponible dès aujourd'hui sur Google Play pour les appareils fonctionnant sous Android 8.1 (Oreo) ou supérieur, et seront préinstallés en tant qu'appli galerie sur l'Itel S15 et certains appareils A55, disponibles au Kenya. 




Les initiatives Grow with Google

Il y a deux ans, nous avons présenté des initiatives visant à fournir aux Africains les compétences et les outils dont ils ont besoin pour qu’eux-mêmes, et à travers eux leurs activités et leurs communautés, puissent profiter des avantages du monde numérique.

À ce jour, notre programme de compétences numériques nous a permis de former plus de 4 millions d’Africains sur les 10 millions prévus. Au Kenya, ce sont plus de 1 million de Kényans et plus de 50% des Kényans formés ont trouvé de nouveaux emplois, et ont vu la progression de carrière ou la croissance de l'entreprise..

Nous avions également prévu de former 60 startups en 3 ans avec notre programme Launchpad Accelerator Africa. Depuis son lancement l'an dernier, 35 startups ont été sélectionnées, ont créé 385 emplois et levé plus de 19 millions de dollars. Onze d’entre elles sont des startups kényanes : Pezesha, Flexpay, Cloud9xp, PayGo Energy, Data Integrated Limited, Kwara, OkHi, Tambua Health Inc., Elewa, Tulaa et WorkPay.




YouTube Gold & Silver Buttons

L’année dernière, l’utilisation mobile de YouTube a bondi de 80 % : les vidéos YouTube sont de plus en plus consultées et les internautes consacrent de plus en plus de temps à cette activité. Cette hausse s’explique par la qualité incroyable des contenus que les créateurs chargent sur YouTube. À travers le monde, ce sont plus de 500 heures de vidéo qui sont chargées sur YouTube chaque minute. 

Aujourd’hui, nous avons remis le « Gold Play Button », un prix qui récompense les chaînes YouTube qui dépassent 1 million d’abonnés à The Churchill Show. The Churchill Show est la deuxième chaîne YouTube du Kenya à recevoir le Gold Play Button après Citizen TV.

10 YouTubeurs kényans qui ont dépassé les 100 000 abonnés ont reçu le « Silver Play Button ». Il s’agit de Sharon Waniz, Alex Mathenge, Wabosha Maxine, Timeless Noel, MCA Tricky, King Kaka, Bahati, The WaJesus Family et Joanna Kinuthia.

Ces prix viennent récompenser le travail et le dévouement dont ces créateurs ont fait preuve pour développer leur chaîne à ce niveau de professionnalisme. 


Nous espérons que les produits et informations que nous annonçons aujourd’hui aideront les Kényans à tirer le meilleur parti d’Internet, à développer l'économie de leur pays et à préserver la richesse de leur culture et de leur diversité. Nous maintenons notre engagement à mettre à portée de tous, partout dans le monde, le pouvoir qu'a la technologie à transformer nos vies.


Publié par Charles Murito, Directeur de pays pour Google Kenya

Google supports Africa Code Week empowering over 100,000 students through Computer Science

According to a recent WEF report on digital skills, only about 1% of African children leave school with basic coding skills, and 30% of employers across Africa identify inadequately skilled workforces as a major constraint to business growth. 


In 2017 we began actively making commitments in Africa to combat this. One of those commitments was to help 10 million Africans acquire digital skills that will prepare them for the jobs of the future. We are also intensifying our efforts to equip the upcoming generation with skills they need to become active players in Africa's emerging digital economy. One of the ways we are doing this is through our partnership with SAP.
Since 2015, through the Grow with Google Community Microgrant, we have partnered with SAP to sponsor local organisations to facilitate hands-on coding workshops through their Africa Code Week Program. Last year, we provided grants to 53 organizations across 11 countries. This year we will be funding 55 organizations across 18 countries. To facilitate this learning opportunity, Google is supporting the delivery of hands-on coding curriculum, like CS First; a free, easy to use, video guided scratch based coding content for kids aged 9 to 16. Google also provided coding content for areas with limited internet access and digital devices through CS unplugged.



Here’s a list of the awarded organizations-

Benin
AISEC, Benin

Botswana
Dream Factory
The Clicking Generation
Ngwana Entreprise

Cameroun
Institut Salomon
Genuis Centers
Club Programmation


The Library Project Trust (The Bookery)

Togo
Association pour le Refondation Laigue du Togo

Tunisia
MentorNations

Uganda
Youth for reconciliation & leadership

Zimbabwe
Girls in STEM Trust

Posted by Mojolaoluwa Aderemi-Makinde, Head, Brand and Reputation, Africa and Guillaume Sekko, Computer Science Education Program Manager Europe & Africa


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Google soutient Africa Code Week qui permet à plus de 100 000 étudiants d'apprendre l’informatique

Selon un rapport WEF récent sur les compétences numériques, seulement 1 % des enfants africains quittent l’école avec des aptitudes de base en codage, et 30 % des employeurs en Afrique considèrent le manque de qualification comme un frein majeur au développement économique. 


En 2017, nous avons commencé à nous investir en Afrique pour lutter contre cet état de fait. L’un de ces engagements consistait à aider 10 millions d’Africains à acquérir les compétences numériques qui les prépareront aux emplois de demain. Nous intensifions également nos efforts afin de donner aux prochaines générations les compétences dont elles ont besoin pour contribuer activement à l’émergence de l’économie numérique en Afrique. Pour ce faire, nous nous appuyons notamment sur notre partenariat avec SAP.


Depuis 2015, avec le Grow with Google Community Microgrant, nous collaborons avec SAP pour aider les organisations locales à organiser des ateliers de codage pratiques dans le cadre du programme Africa Code Week. L'année passée, nous avons accordé des bourses à 53 organisations de 11 pays. Cette année, nous allons attribuer des financements à 55 organisations de 18 pays. Pour faciliter cet apprentissage, Google soutient l’organisation de cursus de codage, comme CS First, un programme vidéo gratuit et convivial de formation au codage pour enfants âgés de 9 à 16 ans. Google a également proposé des formations en codage dans les zones ayant un accès limité à Internet et aux appareils numériques grâce à CS unplugged.


Voici une liste des organisations récompensées -



Par Mojolaoluwa Aderemi-Makinde, Responsable, Marque et Réputation, Afrique et Guillaume Sekko, Directeur des programmes de formation en informatique - Europe et Afrique