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Publish Date : 17-Oct-2018

Google has announced a $1 million grant through its Google.org initiative to provide digital skills training to more than 100,000 smallholder farmers in low-income and rural Kenya in the next year.

Google has partnered with One Acre Fund, a non-profit organisation headquartered in Kakamega, Kenya with experience in providing training, products and services on credit to smallholder farmers.

The fund, which would allow the farmers to digitise their operations and tasks, will help the farmers to make the most of the web for their agribusinesses, thus increasing yields and productivity.

Google Kenya Country Manager, Charles Murito said, The training skills program will help smallholder farmers digitize their agribusiness operations and tasks. We want to see the power of technology elevate small-scale farming. We hope that through this initiative, we will see a positive impact on food security, job creation and GDP growth in Kenya.

Murito was speaking at the first Google for Kenya event where the company outlined its long-term strategy and commitment to contribute to the countrys economic and social growth.

The digital training will provide training as well as products and services to smallholder farmers aimed at digitising their agribusiness operations and tasks

Farmers in low-income and rural parts of the country will benefit from the grant and training taking effect over the next one year.

The Digital Skills for Africa program builds on Googles existing commitment in Sub Saharan Africa to improve economic opportunities. Google commited to train one million African youth between April 2016 and March 2017. In July 2017, the program was extended to see 10m youth and 100k developers trained across the region by 2022.

As of today, the digital skills program has trained more than 2.5 million Africans and in Kenya, we have trained over 200,000 job seekers and over 400,000 businesses on various digital skills relevant to their career goals and business needs.

The company also launched Street View and for the first time ever in Africa, Motorbike Mode on Google Maps. The announcements were made at the first Google for Kenya, where the company outlined its long-term strategy and commitment to contribute to the countrys economic and social growth.

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