Microsoft has revealed intentions to invest $100 million to launch an African technology development centre in Kenya and Nigeria over the next 5 years.
Microsoft’s COO and CMO for Middle East and Africa described the future workforce of the to be in Africa and Microsoft is setting up infrastructure to tap into that opportunity.
“The future of the world in terms of labour work force is here in Africa and we started working about infrastructure that is needed in order to untap that opportunity, and give the opportunity for all the African countries in order to do the bridging in the details cap. So one of the things we created is first we announced, like two months ago, a full data centre in South Africa that creates infrastructure”
Microsoft in a statement disclosed that it will hire over 100 local engineers to develop the facilities in both countries so that the applications can be customized to the local market.
“From a dollar stand point we are talking about 100 million dollars’ investment, between infrastructure and people. But the most important part is not about that, it is the ripple effect we will create in the eco-system, with the university, with the governments and with the startups. For every person there will be many working in internship programs, in development programs that we will be able to enable for the local economy and that is where we care the most,” Galviz added.
According to Microsoft, the Engineers will build the applications using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Mixed reality (MR) and machine learning.
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