Yesterday, the giant search tech giant Google announced the launch of a product development center in Nairobi, Kenya. This will be the first Google development center in Africa, to build “transformative” products and services for the African market and the entire world.
Google CEO, Sundra Pinchai, is the one who made the announcement on Twitter. Through a Twitter post, he said, “Excited to open our first product development center in Africa later this year. We’re hiring engineers, product managers, UX designers and researchers in Nairobi who want to build helpful products and services for people in Africa and around the world.”
Excited to open our first product development center in Africa later this year. We’re hiring engineers, product managers, UX designers and researchers in Nairobi who want to build helpful products and services for people in Africa and around the world. https://t.co/JaFZcWUbjv
— Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) April 19, 2022
Google promised to hire over 100 tech talent including software engineers, researchers, and designers for the next two years to help solve technical problems, such as improving the smartphone experience for the people in Africa or building a more reliable internet infrastructure.
The company is joining other tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon AWS, and VISA which also are launching technical hubs in Nairobi, Kenya. Recently, Amazon AWS announced to launch of a Lozal Zone for their cloud infrastructure in Kenya. Read the full article here. https://allies.best/aws-to-launch-local-zone-cloud-infrastructure-in-kenya/
