Google hosted a hands-on workshop at its Nairobi office, locally dubbed Tutunge na Gemini, targeting Gen Z creators, media professionals and university students to build practical skills in using its Gemini AI tools for research, writing, editing and content planning.
Through practical demonstrations and interactive exercises, participants explored Gemini as a creative partner, using tools including Nano Banana 2 and Gemini Omni to create visual assets, rapid prototypes, product photography and promotional material, alongside Gemini Live for conversational ideation and Gems for iterating on new ideas.
Google also used the workshop to highlight its Google AI Plus Student Offer, which gives eligible university students across Kenya access to Gemini’s advanced capabilities, including Gemini Omni, double the usage limits and 400GB of cloud storage across Google Drive, Gmail and Google Photos, alongside a growing suite of AI-powered learning tools.
Janet Kemboi, Google’s Head of Communications for Africa, said AI is most useful when it helps people turn their ideas into meaningful work. “Through Tutunge na Gemini, we are giving Kenya’s creators, media professionals and university students the opportunity to explore how Gemini can become part of their everyday creative and learning process,” Kemboi said, adding that participants were expected to leave with practical skills for their day-to-day workflows.
Charles Murito, Google’s Regional Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy for the Middle East and Africa, said the workshop reflected the company’s commitment to equipping African youth with digital tools to compete globally. He said the AI Plus student offer removes a major cost barrier to AI tools for African university students, helping close the institutional resource gap by giving students at smaller public universities and technical colleges access to the same research and synthesis tools used by their global peers.
Google said Gemini is designed to offer a more integrated experience by understanding the context of a user’s work and supporting collaboration across everyday tools, with capabilities spanning contextual awareness, agentic assistance, collaboration and personalisation. Its agentic features can also handle scheduling and administrative tasks, freeing up time for creative work.
The workshop also gave participants a space to connect and exchange ideas on how AI is shaping the way stories are created and consumed, part of Google’s broader push to bring AI capabilities closer to creators, media professionals and students while encouraging responsible use of the technology.
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