{"id":183,"date":"2025-02-14T18:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techstream.getdev.co\/?p=183"},"modified":"2025-02-14T18:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T17:03:10","slug":"nigeria-partners-with-google-to-boost-ai-innovation-and-digital-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Partners with Google to Boost AI Innovation and Digital Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/techstream.getdev.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4515-1-300x225.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4515-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/img_4515-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Nigeria is collaborating with Google to advance artificial intelligence and strengthen its digital economy. The announcement was made by President Bola Tinubu after his meeting with Google CEO Sundar Pichai in Paris, France. The partnership aims to expand cloud infrastructure, equip the workforce with future-ready skills, foster AI research, promote cloud adoption, and establish Nigeria as a global tech hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">President Tinubu highlighted local AI initiatives like Silas Adekunle\u2019s Awarri, which focuses on developing AI software tailored to Nigeria\u2019s market, particularly in arts, culture, and language. Sundar Pichai emphasized the vast potential of AI in Nigeria and discussed ways to support the country\u2019s growing tech ecosystem. Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, stressed the importance of positioning Nigeria as a leader in AI development and regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the full article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techinafrica.com\/nigeria-partners-with-google-to-drive-ai-innovation-and-digital-growth\/\">Tech in Africa<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria is collaborating with Google to advance artificial intelligence and strengthen its digital economy. The announcement was made by President Bola Tinubu after his meeting with Google CEO Sundar Pichai in Paris, France. The partnership aims to expand cloud infrastructure, equip the workforce with future-ready skills, foster AI research, promote cloud adoption, and establish Nigeria&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}