On 29th September 2014, Andhra Pradesh (AP) Government signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement with search engine giant Google India for Digital Andhra Pradesh project.
The agreement was signed at the CEOs’ Conclave of Information Technology (IT) companies in Andhra Pradesh.
Under this memorandum, Google India will work with the Andhra Pradesh government to provide women and small and medium businesses online help and assist them to gain from the internet economy i.e. E-commerce.
In this initiative Google will help to make the Internet more meaningful to the users who do not speak English by improving accessibility to government websites and scaling the local language web.
Highlights of the MoU Agreement between Andhra Pradesh (AP) Government and Google India:
- Google will make websites feasible with mobile devices and accessible in the local language.
- It will promote Internet Safety amongst children and government officials.
- Google will improve the online content as well as will get more local language content online.
- It will collaborate with AP government to scale initiatives to promote digital literacy amongst women and help to reduce digital divide.
- The initiatives will include developing Telugu font, keyboards and content thus government will work for increasing the penetration of Telugu on Internet in the state.
- Google will partner with academic institutions to create quality content in Telugu for the Internet.
What is Digital Andhra Pradesh Project?
The Government of Andhra Pradesh is developing Andhra Pradesh state into a global digital development hub with its Digital AP project.
Digital Andhra Pradesh project is vision of state laid under the Digital India Initiative of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Google has partnered for the Digital India initiative with the central government).
The event also marked the launch of a Technology Research and Incubation Park at Madhurawada IT Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
Andhra Pradesh government has signed important MoU’s with other IT companies for Digital Andhra Pradesh Project, they are as follows:
- Kochi-based company Start-up Village for managing the incubation park.
- These include MoU with Tech Mahindra for its facility over 10 acres of land. It is expected to provide 5000 jobs. It will help for setting up their facilities in and around Visakhapatnam.
- Wipro to accord SEZ status to its existing campus in the city. The facility will increase the number of jobs to 7000.
- Under another agreement, the government allotted 13 acres at Gambheeram IT SEZ to Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER) to set up a research and development centre.
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