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Googler, Emeka Afigbo, is a program manager in the developer relations team leading developer programs in Sub Saharan Africa. His “Project Kesa” is taking Google’s developer content from its standard online repository to offline reusable formats through what he calls, Software Developer Offline Kits.

The present iteration of the Software Developer Kit is a 32GB USB flash drive containing Google cloud documentation, all the software developer kit for Android and cloud, documentation of material design, the Udacity course videos and a couple other stuff. These offline kits are currently being used by over 4, 000 developers in over a hundred countries.

The project is providing access to developer-content to a whole new developer ecosystem in sub-saharan Africa where internet is expensive, unreliable or sometimes flat-out non-existent.

See him in this interview with Google Developer Advocate, Lawrence Moroney on the webcast, Coffee With a Googler, where he also talked about what developers are doing with the offline content now available to them.

 

Gbenga Onalaja Author

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