{"id":844,"date":"2025-05-16T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=844"},"modified":"2025-05-16T13:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:47:25","slug":"google-to-invest-in-1bn-in-africas-digital-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Google to invest in $1bn in Africa\u2019s digital transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/630529-600x319-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/630529-600x319-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/techstream.africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/630529-600x319-1-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Google has invested $1 billion towards Africa\u2019s digital transformation over the next five years. This support is targeted at revamping the continent\u2019s digital transformation and focus on enabling internet access that is fast and affordable for the masses. In turn, helping them build helpful products while supporting entrepreneurship and small businesses. The announcement came at Google\u2019s first-ever virtually held Google for Africa event. The disclosure of the investment was made by Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techinafrica.com\/google-to-invest-in-1bn-in-africas-digital-transformation\/\">To read more click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has invested $1 billion towards Africa\u2019s digital transformation over the next five years. This support is targeted at revamping the continent\u2019s digital transformation and focus on enabling internet access that is fast and affordable for the masses. In turn, helping them build helpful products while supporting entrepreneurship and small businesses. The announcement came at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techstream.africa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}