As India moves towards a leadership position in the global knowledge economy, Microsoft continues to work in close partnership with all stakeholders, including the government at the state and national level, the Indian IT industry and academia, to ensure that technology is leveraged as a catalyst for enabling more and more individuals and communities to realize their full potential.
The following three strategic initiatives define Microsoft’s mission of ‘Realizing India’s Potential’ today: |
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| Creating a Digitally Inclusive Society in India |
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 Under its commitment of Unlimited Potential, this implies a thrust on long-term investments on relevant, affordable access to technology in areas which are aligned to India’s priorities. Microsoft is committed to work on transforming education, foster local innovation, and enable jobs and opportunities to sustain a continuous cycle of social and economic growth. Some of the initiatives towards this are, Partners in Learning (Project Shiksha), Project Bhasha, Project Jyoti, Project Vikas, Shared Access and Mobile Solutions. |
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| The Local Software Economy |
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 In India, Microsoft is currently making significant investments in working with over 1.2 million developers, 1000 Independent Software Vendors and over a 100 System Integrators to empower them with the tools, technologies and training required to develop high end skills and compete in a global marketplace. Microsoft is also committed to help the Indian ISV community realize the opportunity in the software products space. The attempt is to change India from renting IQ to owning IP. Microsoft’s scope of work with the Indian technical community is spread across the Academic community which includes the IITs, RECs, and other educational institutions and the entire breadth of the India IT ecosystem including System Integrators and Independent Software Vendors, software professionals (developers, IT professionals and software architects) who work independently or with an enterprise in India or overseas. |
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| Innovating from, for and with India |
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 India is the only subsidiary outside of the US where Microsoft has an end-to-end presence through six business units which contribute significantly to global Microsoft Innovation and the growth of the partner ecosystem. The combined entities presence is leveraged to not just address the unique needs of India as a market but also to keep growing the momentum of India’s growth in the Knowledge economy. |
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Microsoft works in partnership with Indian Government in order to provide innovative e-governance solutions that help take IT to the grassroots. |
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As pioneers in the e-governance space in India, we have been working closely with various departments of the Central and State Governments and Public Sector organizations for the last 17 years now. |
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We are partnering with 14 state governments today and there are more than 300 e-governance applications running on the Windows platform. |
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We have also instituted "Microsoft e-governance Awards" to recognize the most successful e governance applications designed on the Windows platform that have significantly enhanced delivery of citizen services and have ushered in a more participative and transparent form of governance. |
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MoU with the Government of Uttaranchal for E Governance: Department of Information Technology (DOIT) appointed Strategic Microsoft Technology Partner for the state Government, consulting, developing and executing systems integration projects on Microsoft technologies. As part of the agreement, Microsoft shall invest in skills transfer on Microsoft products and technologies to DOIT. |
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