Microsoft builds $100 million Africa Development Centre in Lagos, Nigeria

The American international technology, Microsoft Corporation, which creates computer software, confidential computers, and suitable services, yesterday, began its first African Development Centre (ADC) in Lagos.

The center is a $100 million stake by the multi-billion dollar corporation is where software engineering remedies are believed to be invested in Africa.

This revelation is enclosed in a tweet post by Bashir Ahmed, the Personal Assistant to the President on Digital and New Media, on his authorized Twitter account on March 21, 2022.

The center, which was built alongside the one in Nairobi, Kenya, will be the first to be inaugurated in Africa and is another cue of the landmass’s evolving implication as an international center for mastery.

What Bashir Ahmed is asserting

In the tweet from the President’s aide on Digital and New Media, Bashir Ahmed said, ‘’Microsoft, an American multinational technology corporation which produces computer software, personal computers, and related services, opens its first African Development Centre (ADC) in Lagos, Nigeria.’’

The Vice President of Microsoft Corporate, Michael Fortin, In the course of the takeoff of this center in May 2019, asserted that the craving of the technology corporation is to call up exceptional engineering capability and get the opportunity to operate on the recent technologies satisfactory for Kenya, Nigeria and the world at large.

He asserted that in achieving so, engineers can acknowledge noteworthy art from their cottage areas, while packed into an international engineering and advancement organization.

Things  you should know

Recall that in 2019, the month of May precisely, Microsoft notified the take-off of the Nigeria setting of its outstanding Africa Development Centre. The center, which globally Microsoft’s 7th, was believed to call up world-class African engineering capability to invent creative remedies that traverse the imaginative haze and intelligent verge.

Increased Microsoft presence in Africa will designate collaborators and clients as they operate Microsoft solutions in professions essential to the landmass like FinTech, AgriTech, and OffGrid energy.

For the African Development Center, Microsoft is craving engineering capability in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and varied sensibility.