Participants walk past glowing signs during a conference tagged 'Google for Nigeria' in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos on Thursday. (Reuters photo)LAGOS - Alphabet Inc's Google aims to train 10 million people in Africa in online skills over the next five years in an effort to make them more employable, its chief executive said on Thursday. The US technology giant also hopes to train 100,000 software developers in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, a company spokeswoman said. Google's pledge marked an expansion of an initiative it launched in April 2016 to train young Africans in digital skills. It announced in March it had reached its initial target of training one million people.

Source: Bangkok Post July 27, 2017 14:15 UTC