Google invested $37 million to promote AI development throughout Africa, including the opening of its first Artificial Intelligence (AI) Community Center in Accra, Ghana, on July 24, 2025. By providing workshops, training courses, and cooperative opportunities for developers, students, and creators, the center hopes to become a center for AI education, research, and innovation.
AI literacy, community technology, social impact, and arts and culture are the four main focuses of its efforts. 100,000 fully funded Google Career Certificate scholarships, covering subjects like AI Essentials, Prompting Essentials, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, and IT Support, are being offered by Google to Ghanaian university students as part of this project.
Google.org is also providing two $1 million research grants to the Wits Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute in South Africa and the African Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AfriDSAI) at the University of Pretoria, as well as $7 million to support AI education in Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Ghana.
Additionally, the program includes $3 million for the Masakhane Research Foundation to develop AI tools in more than 40 African languages and $25 million for an AI Collaborative for Food Security.
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This launch expands on Google’s prior AI initiatives in Africa, which included the establishment of an AI research facility in Accra in 2018 and initiatives like regional language models and AI-powered maternal health dashboards.
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