Google representatives, Alfonso de Gaetano, head of emerging markets, and Benjamin made made this known during an official visit to Naij.com corporate office in Lagos on Thursday, November 26.
”From what we’ve seen especially the visit to phone shops in terms of growth traffic on mobile we really believe that this market we really explode in the next two three years.
Alfonso de Gaetano
Though Google has its physical presence in African countries like
South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Gaetano said the company is
prepared to do more that expected.The google team reiterated that the company is committed to ensuring that in the next two or three years there is another billion people connected to the internet
‘‘We plan to ensure another 3 billion get connected to the internet. If you do that, it changes the whole system and what we want is that these billions of people would not only have access to the internet but also make use of them.
L-R: Cheif executive officer, Naij.com, Goke Olaegbe and the representatives of Google
The representatives who were impressed by the attitude of Nigerians
to the use of the internet emphasised that making use of the internet
would help to create more companies on the internet.”We would facilitate the platform for Nigerian businesses to export the Nigeria market everywhere in the world because so many people have access to Nigeria.
”It is important we enable companies, publishers, e-commerce players to make most of the internet and that’s really most important to us.’‘ he emphasised.
On daily basis, more Nigerians are getting connected to the internet. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) as at February this year put the number of internet users on the country’s telecom networks as 83,362,814 .
The 2015 Global Internet Report also presented data that showed that, apart form the internet data, lack of useful contents are core to why people are not opting into the use of the internet.
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