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Facebook Hiring Reviewers for its Content Review Center in Nairobi, Kenya

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Facebook will open a content review center in Nairobi, Kenya. In partnership with Samasource – one of the largest digital employers in East Africa and a leading social enterprise — the site in Nairobi will be Facebook\’s first content review center in Sub-Saharan Africa. Facebook will also employ approximately 100 reviewers by the end of …

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11 Africans Selected for the Facebook Community Leadership Program

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Facebook has announced the names of 116 people worldwide who have been selected to join the Facebook Community Leadership Program. Around a dozen African community leaders have been selected to become program residents and fellows.  The five (5) participants selected  as community leaders in residence, each will be awarded up to $1,000,000 to fund their community …

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Facebook and Google Help to Establish the African Master’s in Machine Intelligence

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The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) has announced the launch of a one-year intensive African Master’s in Machine Intelligence (AMMI) in partnership with Facebook and Google. The master’s program will begin this September at the AIMS-Rwanda campus in Kigali. The goal of the initiative is to train a generation of young scientists who will bring a fresh …

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Google Expands Its Launchpad Program for African Startups

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Google Launchpad Africa is an acceleration program that matches top African startups with the best of Google – its people, network, and advanced technologies – to help build great products. The program, which runs for three (3) months and will operate out of Lagos, will over the next three (3) years provide African startups with over …

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Apply: Google Launchpad for African Startups

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Google Launchpad Africa is an acceleration program that matches top African startups with the best of Google – its people, network, and advanced technologies – to help build great products. If you are building a great business or product in Africa, for Africa we should work together! The program is accepting applications from startups located in: …

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Attend: Google Launchpad Build Sub-Saharan Africa

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Launchpad Build is an event series aimed at raising awareness, amongst intermediate and expert developers with an existing Web or Android application, on how they can leverage the power of Firebase to improve their productivity. With Firebase, developers are able to quickly develop high-quality applications, grow your user base and earn more money. Come engage …

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A Woman’s Perspective – A Review of Nigeria’s Social Media Bill

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 Ebele Ezenwa  The Digital Rights and Freedom Bill seeks to protect internet users in Nigeria from the infringement of their fundamental freedom and seeks to guarantee the application of human rights for all users of digital platforms, and, or digital media. Indeed, the Internet is a multi-stakeholder space with no single point of control; more …

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Apply: Google Digital Business Manager Training

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Are you based in Lagos? Nairobi? or Accra? Then consider applying. The Digital Business Management program (DBM) is designed to bring more African businesses online. This program will leverage Google’s third party model to grow the digital ecosystem by supporting businesses in their online journey. Upon completion of the training program, participants will receive a certificate of completion …

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Apply: Google’s Computer Science Summer Institute

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Applications are now open for Google’s Computer Science Summer Institute and the Generation Google Scholarship.   Are you a current senior in high school interested in studying computer science at university? The 2015 Generation Google Scholarship for First Years and Computer Science Summer Institute is now accepting applications. Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI) is a three-week introduction to computer science …

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