Google has gone out of it’s way to show that it’s fully committed to becoming a player in the sub-Saharan African market. In the past month alone they’ve announced the Google Africa blog, Google Africa mailing-list, and more recently they put their money where their PR is and purchased a minor stake in Kenya’s Mobile Planet. There’s also rumors of a local cache for East-Africa that would effectively speed up the internet for African surfers by 20%. Today they up the ante even further by offering localized versions of Google News for 9 African countries: Nigeria, Kenya, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Ghana, Uganda and Botswana.

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About the Author: Jonathan Gosier (Founder) is an American-born software developer, writer and social entrepreneur. He currently lives in Kampala, Uganda where he is working on two fronts: to encourage western businesses and investors to engage African entrepreneurs and to encourage the adoption of computers, programming and use of the internet in the developing regions of Africa. He is a huge advocate for promoting the ways in which a semantic web will benefit emerging economies in the world.

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