G-nigeria day 2010 live feed, follow the event
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!
I really miss this event, but hopefully i'd BarCamp will hold with my presence
hope to see you. it will be holding in May.
I really miss this event, but hopefully BarCamp will hold with my presence
hope to see you. it will be holding in May.
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