Microsoft announces Digital Governance Tech Tour to help accelerate Digital India

New Delhi: In line with the government’s Digital India vision, Microsoft India today launched the Digital Governance Tech Tour, a National programme to deliver critical artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent cloud computing skills to government officials in charge of IT across the country. The initiative comprises a series of physical and virtual workshops and aims to train 5,000 personnel over a period of 12 months.

This announcement reaffirms Microsoft’s commitment to empower government organizations to leverage AI and secure cloud technology for efficient, transparent and productive governance.

The programme was inaugurated at the Digital Governance Tech Summit 2019 in New Delhi by Amitabh Kant, CEO NITI Aayog and Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary MeITY.