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Google Confidential and Proprietary

Joe Mucheru,Google SSA Ambassador & Country Manager Kenya

New Technology that Drives Growth

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Confidential

Google in Africa:Fast growing and untapped market

Google would like to pursue technology-driveninitiatives in Africa that will have a meaningful impacton development on the continent and will providelong-term returns for Google

Eric Schmidt


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2012 Commercialization PlanWhat initiatives will have the highest impact in SSA?


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Confidential

Today were happy to be giving two organisations USD 350,000 (KSh 28m) to helpthem expand their infrastructure and purchase tools to better serve thedeveloper and academic communities in Kenya. We hope that this support willhelp strengthen the *iHub and KENET communities respectively.

iHub

Expand their infrastructure to provide the tech community with a sandbox to host and test theirapplicationsSet up a UX testing lab to provide training on design thinking and carry out UX research in the tech world

Setup the ExchangeBoard Project to support high-quality G+ hangouts and display the latest newsfeedswithin the tech communitySet up an experimental super-computer cluster environment (rackspace) to host data intensiveapplications with require high performance computing

We gave the grant to KENET to enable them to either improve or extend connectivity at 7 educationalinstitutions in 2012. Our contribution will go towards the following activities:

Developing wireless LANSs at 3 universities Building wireless last mile solutions for tertiary institutions so that they may connect to the KENET

network (3 institutions) Developing 2.5KM of fiber spur last mile so that Masinde Muliro University (6,000 students) may utilize

the National Optical Fiber Backbone Infrastructure (NOFBI)


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Our Lives Are Constantly Evolving

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Back In the Days

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Todays Technologies

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Smart TVsBringing Internet to TV

1 Billionsmartphone customers by 2016

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1 MillioniPads sold in just 2 Days
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Digital Revolution in Context

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InformationRead

Distribution &Commerce

Buy

CommunicationTalk

1994 20111998 2000 2003 2006

2.1BUsers: 77M 400M 500M 1B


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Explosion of content

From the dawn of humanity to 2003, only 5 exabytes of data was

recorded. Now, more than that is generated every 2 days.

48 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

Social networkingnow accounts for

1 out of every 6 minutes spent online.


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Digital information in the world

videos, photos, music, texts, etc.800 exabytes2010

Internet users worldwide

2010 1.9B

Mobile subscribers

2010 5B

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Digital information in the world

videos, photos, music, texts, etc.800 exabytes2010

2020 53 zettabytes

Internet users worldwide

2010 1.9B

2020 5B

Mobile subscribers

2010 5B

2020 10B

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Google Confidential and Proprietary 12

Internet is aLevel Playing Field


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Its just getting started


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Whats next? Everythings going digital


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The Four Bes

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Be RelevantBe Found

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Be EngagingBe EngagingBe AccountableBe Accountable


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Google Opportunities that drive growth

BRAND

AUDIENCE

PRODUCT

ADVERTISER PUBLISHER

AdSense DfPDfA

GDN

YouTube

O&

O

Display

partners AdX


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Questions?

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