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Expand opportunity

We expand economic opportunity and growth for all.

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Our commitment starts with ensuring everyone has the skills to thrive in a digital, AI-enabled economy, and extends to empowering nonprofits, entrepreneurs, and other organizations to digitally transform and address society’s biggest challenges.

Grow access to digital skills and opportunity

To empower everyone to thrive in an AI-enabled economy, we help people build digital skills for jobs and livelihoods, increase access to computer science education, and address key skills gaps.

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Build skills for jobs

We're working toward a future in which every job seeker, employee, student, and displaced or crisis-affected individual has access to the digital and AI skills and opportunity to succeed.

Digital skills resources

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AI Skills

AI offers tremendous potential to empower workers around the world—but only if everyone, everywhere has the skills to use it. Learn how we’re helping people and communities harness the power of AI.

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Close the cybersecurity skills gap

Currently there aren’t enough cybersecurity professionals to meet demand. Microsoft is helping to build an inclusive pipeline of cyber talent around the world.

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Close the sustainability skills gap

Over 3,500 companies globally have issued climate pledges but many lack a workforce with the skills to turn these pledges to progress. Our report shows the urgent need to develop a new level of sustainability skills and fluency – and how we aim to help support the transformation.

Read about our findings Explore skills resources

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Increase access to computer science education

Technology Education and Learning Support (TEALS) connects teachers with tech industry volunteers to create inclusive, sustainable computer science (CS) programs. To support more equitable access to CS education, we're bringing TEALS to high schools in US cities with high populations of Black and African American Students.

Learn more about TEALS Learn about CS education

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Digital literacy fundamentals

Digital literacy can play a powerful role in helping people create more promising futures. These resources can help individuals gain the basic skills needed to effectively explore the internet and navigate our digital world.

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Equip changemakers

Nonprofits, entrepreneurs, and humanitarian organizations address our world’s most pressing challenges. We make technology, industry-specific solutions, and support affordable, so they can achieve more.

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Empower nonprofits

Technology can help nonprofits and international development organizations build their capacity to address societal challenges. We empower them with solutions that are tailored to their needs, affordable, and accessible, including AI solutions to advance their impact.

Learn more about nonprofit solutions

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Support social entrepreneurs

Social entrepreneurs build businesses with ambitious visions for global change. We help them increase their impact through access to technology, expertise, visibility, and connections.

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Close the data divide

We believe everyone can benefit from opening, sharing, and collaborating around data to make better decisions, improve efficiency, and help tackle some of the world’s most pressing societal challenges.

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Advance open data

Access to data is a big challenge. Microsoft aims to close the data divide and help organizations of all sizes realize the benefits of data and the new technologies it powers.

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Improving society with open data

We’re working to make data that is relevant to important social problems as open as possible, including by contributing open data ourselves. The Data for Society resource center provides access to Microsoft’s open datasets, resources, and tools to make data sharing, research, and collaboration easier.

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Protect public health

Public health is an issue that impacts every person on the planet, transcends every border, and is critical to our ability to survive and thrive. Technology can play an important role in responding to health crises, advancing research, and improving access to care for traditionally marginalized communities.

AI for Health

Microsoft is investing $60 million to empower those tackling some of our toughest global health challenges with AI and data science resources to help further medical discovery, uncover global health insights, and increase health equity.

Visit the AI for Health site