Microsoft India Group Director (Public Sector) Karan Bajwa talks about how he plans to expand the company's share of government sector business in India
<http://igovernment.in/site/The-govt-should-not-get-into-technology-battle/> What are your other plans in education sector? Microsoft IT academies have been set-up in 10 states—Maharashtra, Uttaranchal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. We will continue with these states and continue with others for possible areas of cooperation. We are building proof of concept, successfully implementing it and then handing it over to the government for large scale training. Besides, there are initiatives aimed at motivating teachers through Innovative Teacher Leadership Award, enabling them to go back to school and build curriculum. Overall we have a database of 16,000 case studies which has been published on indiashiksha.com portal. Microsoft is also partnering with state governments and the Ministry of HRD for designing IT curriculum for class six till 10th to ensure that schools adopt right curriculum. Besides, the company is involved in identifying economic reasons for dropouts in schools and creating better areas of employment through digital literacy curriculum. We are providing basic IT education free of cost to schools, colleges and CSC. We are providing self paced training course to rural students which offer examination and certificate from Microsoft and the concerned state government thereby increasing the chance of employability. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work _______________________________________________ Ilug-cal-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://list.ilug-cal.org/mailman/listinfo/ilug-cal-discuss
