US launches IPEF upskilling initiative with Google, IBM, Amazon and Microsoft

Washington: The US government on Thursday announced the launch of the IPEF Upskilling Initiative, a public-private endeavour to support sustainable and inclusive economic growth in emerging economies and middle-income countries like India, Indonesia and Malaysia in the Indo-Pacific region.

As part of the initiative, 14 US companies — Amazon and Amazon Web Services, American Tower, Apple, Cisco, Dell Technologies, Edelman Global Advisory (EGA), Google, HP, IBM, MasterCard, Microsoft, PayPal, Salesforce, and Visa — will each provide 5,00,000 or more upskilling opportunities that use digital tools for primarily women and girls in IPEF emerging economies and middle-income partners by 2032.