Yesterday on 13th July 2020, Google made a huge announcement which will help India in its Digitization journey. At the starting of the event, Mr Sanjay Gupta, Country Head and Vice President, Google India, spoke about the India's digitization boon. He said, today there are more that 500M+ active Internet users across the country and more than 450M+ Internet users on smartphones.
He thanked PM Modi’s vision for digitization in India. He explained how his vision has helped billions of Indians to connect online, low cost smartphones combined with affordable data and world class telecom structure have paved the way for new opportunities.
Adding to this Google and Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai,
announced about the “Google for India Digitization Fund”. According to him,
Google will invest 75,000 crores in India over the next 5-7 years. This will be
done through the mix of equity investments, partnerships and operational
infrastructure and ecosystem investments.
The major key features of this launch are:
1.The investments will focus on 4 major areas:
- Affordable access to information to every Indian in their own language.
- Building new products and services that are deeply relevant to India’s unique needs.
- Empowering businesses as they continue on their digital transformation.
- Leveraging technology and AI for social world in areas like; health, education and agriculture.
2. Thanking to Google, Mr Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communications, Electronics and IT and Law and Justice, said “Google today is not only a brand
simplicita but a defining platform of change, of empowerment, of innovation, of
information and most important digital awakening.”
3. Caesar Sengupta, Google Vice President Payments and Next
Billion users in India, revealed that India is the 2nd largest
mobile phone manufacturing country in the world. He quoted an ICEA report,
which mentioned that Android contributed to 1.6 million jobs in India. He
further added that 26 million small and medium businesses in India are now searchable
on Google. He also revealed that more that 3 million merchants in COVID World today
are using G-Pay business app and Nearby Store feature is also used by over 2
million users in India.
4. Lastly, Sapna Chadha, Google Senior Country Marketing
Director India and Southeast Asia, briefly talked about the Teach from Home
project, which is used by over 4 lakh educators in the current situations of COVID.
She also announced that by end of 2020, Google will enable 1 million teachers
and 22,000 schools across India to combine classroom approach with Online Learning,
using tools like; G-Suite, Google Classroom, YouTube etc.
5. At the end, Mr Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishak, Minister of HRD, thanked Google for this great initiative and especially congratulated Mr Sundar Pichai for making India proud in whole world.
I hope this article cleared your mind about the latest
announcement of Google on Google for India Digitization.
Happy Learning !!
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