GOOGLE AIMS TO TRAIN OVER 10MILLION AFRICANS

Wow, this sounds highly great to those in Africa and kudos to Google for its aims of training 10 million people in Africa in online skills in the next five years as an encourage to make them more employable. its chief executive said on Thursday.

The U.S. technology giant also hopes to train 100,000 software developers in countries like Nigeria, kenya and South Africa, a company spokeswoman said.

Google aims to train 10 million people in Africa in online skills over the next five years in an effort to make them more employeable.

The U.S. technology giant also hopes to train 100,000 software developers in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, a company spokeswoman said.

The company is "committing to prepare another 10 million people for jobs of the future in the next five years.

Africa, with its rapid increase in population growth, reducing data costs and heavy adoption of mobile phones, having largely leapfrogged personal computer use, is tempting for tech companies. Executives such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's chairman Jack Ma have also recently toured parts of the continent.

Countries like Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, whichich Google listed as the initial target for the plan would reduce cyber crime rate in the country due to the job opportunity it will create for those that already have little knowledge but couldn't get a job before. I really commend Google on this approach, it's big kudos on their side.