Microsoft has taken the initiative of working with state governments in India for establishing a better standard of living for the states, by enhancing education, establish digital infrastructure, developing agriculture and health industry etc. For a successful implementation, Microsoft has employed various technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and cloud computing solutions.
In order to initiate its first step towards these developments, Microsoft has formulated plans and has been working out on modalities to increase investments in 8 North Eastern States of India. Its aim is to develop the education sector, enhancing transportation and utilities, and enabling better citizen services in the North East by employing the powers of AI and cloud technologies in the states.
For better implementation of these plans, the company signed a MoU with the Government of Sikkim to develop a new technological level among students and faculty of government schools in the state. According to the MoU signed, the govt. schools will witness a new curriculum where there is the integration of IT for all the students from Class 6-10th, this integration will come under Microsoft Innovative Schools Program; building teacher capacity through the Microsoft Educator Network and Innovative Educator Program; enhancing digital literacy and digital citizenship.
Manish Prakash, general manager – Public Sector, Microsoft India, said, “E-governance is the best way to get the benefits of technology to all the residents of North East India. We believe the next step of growth will be to leverage the power of the cloud, artificial intelligence, IoT and data; and are very keen to partner with the North East on this journey.”
They have also taken the initiative to train 2 govt. nominated schools and will train their teachers and students on Microsoft’s curriculum on creative coding and gaming through apps, robotics, entrepreneurship and tools for collaboration, creativity, and communication. Workshops are scheduled to be conducted to train the nominated schools, along with online webinars imparting extra knowledge equipped with technology and deliver them technological skills for a better future.
Microsoft will train a batch of 20 district education officers (DEO) and Principals of the government schools nominated by the state government on Microsoft Digital Literacy Curriculum & Certification, who will then be responsible for training other officials of other schools. After the completion of the course, the company will undergo online training for ensuring digital literacy certification.
Microsoft is the only service provider across all three clouds established in the country namely private, public and hybrid cloud, which turned out to be the first global public cloud service provider to be accredited by the ministry of electronics and information technology.