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Google declared on Wednesday, the introduction of a dedicated travel mode in Google Maps to supply directions and navigation for motorcycles in Nigeria.
The company declared at the third Google for Nigeria event, held in Lagos on Wednesday, this will also be accessible in Benin Republic, Ghana, Rwanda, Togo and Uganda.
The new feature is an element of the new products and features introduced by the tech giant to make Google additional useful to people in Nigeria and across Africa.
The announcements embodied navigation instructions in a Nigerian voice for motorcycle and automobile driving modes, new Street View imagery, Gallery Go, Google Go updates, Google Lens and Bolo, and a Nigerian culinary experience from Google Arts and Culture.
Google says it has partnered with the Nigerian government to form an online safety curriculum available to all or any primary and secondary school students in the country, reaching a calculated amount of 56 million Nigerian students every year.
Google also launched navigation instructions and direction in a Nigerian voice for both automobile and bike driving modes. In the next few months, Google plans to introduce a new directions experience for Lagos that is optimised for casual transit, including Danfo routes into Google Maps, it said.
To help ease the aid to visually explore places in Nigeria, Google can now publish more panoramic imagery on Street View. Starting with imagery of Lagos two years ago, Google has added Street View imagery of Abuja, Benin City, Enugu and Ibadan – with almost 12 thousand kilometres of roads added.
The company noted that with the expansion of Android, more and more Nigerians have phones that take pictures. However, not everybody has access to reliable, high-speed internet or cloud backup to quickly find a photo, it mentioned.
That is why Google has launched Gallery Go – a uniquely fast and smart photo gallery designed for users who don’t have a reliable internet connection, that brings several features of Google Photos on a device, to assist them notice, edit and manage their photos even when they are offline.
Other products and features launched by the company include Google Lens, that help individual seek out more about the world around them through their camera and photos; and Bolo, a speech-based reading and education app that helps kids learn how to read in English.
Google Arts & Culture has also cooked up a project, ‘Come Chop Bellefull: A Taste of Nigeria’, which pays tribute to Nigeria’s vibrant and diverse food culture. People across the world can now explore Nigerian regional cooking and culture through 2,000 high-resolution images and 30 stories created in collaboration with The Centenary Project at the Pan-Atlantic University, it said.
In 2017 Google committed to train 10 million people in Africa on digital skills over 5 years. To date, the company said 4 million Africans have been trained. The company said it has also trained 15,000 developers and awarded 33,000 scholarships to help African developers become certified on Android, Web, and Cloud technologies.
Building on this, Google said it is committing an additional $4 million to support youth empowerment, gender equality and agriculture, alongside piloting new initiatives to power the social impact scheme and promote research on what the future of work looks like for African youth.
In his remarks, Google Nigeria country director, Juliet Chiazor, noted that the company hopes that the products and updates can make Google more useful for fuelling people’s hustles and getting things done.
“We stay committed to bringing the transformational power of technology to everyone in Nigeria and Africa as a whole,” the official said.
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