Google Set To Train 1 Million Africans Freely For Digital Jobs Skills

U.S. tech giant Google plans to help alleviate unemployment in Africa by giving free training to 1 million young Africans in digital skills in the next 12 months, the company said in a press conference in Johannesburg. In South Africa, where 35 percent of 15-to-34-year-olds are unemployed, Google plans to train 300,000 people within the next year, according to Bloomberg. Another 400,000 Nigerians and 200,000 Kenyans will receive free digital training, while 100,000 people will be selected from other sub-Saharan Africa countries.

Africa is expected to have 500 million Internet users by 2020, Google research suggests. African Internet bandwidth increased 41 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to a TeleGeography Global Internet Geography report. Google has partnered with nonprofit South African youth job skills organization Livity Africa to run two training programs. Digify Bytes will give young people digital skills who want to develop a digital career. Digify Pro is a three-month immersion program for digital specialists, according to ITNewsAfrica.
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Image: Google Logo, Training programs have already started in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, and will be scaled to reach more people in the next 12 months.