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Google Nigeria day is going on currently in University of Lagos.

You can stay connected to the event on twitter here with the hash tag #gnigeria.

Google Buzz back channel here.

Nelson Mattos delivered the key note speech, highlights below;

• More than 50% of 16yr olds who are familiar with the Internet don’t use it due to “lack of access to a PC” (SSA ICT Survey)
• Africa: 14% of the world’s population but 2% of Internet users.
• Nigeria has one of the highest mobile adoption rates.

Google’s mission for Africa is to make the Internet an integral part of everyday life.

Make the Internet relevant and useful to Africans

• Content
• Education
• Relevance

Eliminate access as a barrier to all potential users
* Internet affordability
* Devices – affordable devices
* Latency – drastically improve latency

Google needs help of local developers to enhance the map and provide local contents.

Christian Miccio  is now discussing Google map, Mapmaker and API

Google AppEngine Overview, Introduction to Google Web Toolkit

Google AppEngine Hands-on with GWT

Google developers went through the engine and languages you can develop with. Emphasis were on Python and Java, in the hall, we had many PHP developers so they asked if there is support for PHP and .Net. Google developers said they can volunteer  to kickstart it.

View The Event Images here.

Tomorrow will be for Technical managers and internet marketers. Make sure you are available!

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