Ministry of Electronics and IT and Google announced a partnership to make digital payments safer as well as impart digital skill training to artisans and Android training to developers.
The collaboration with Google will be hugely beneficial in harnessing the capabilities of technology for the India growth story.
Google India and MeitY will support the launch of a ‘Digital Payments Security Alliance’ in collaboration with the Data Security Council of India.
The Alliance will bring together several stakeholders from the ecosystem, including banks, fintech companies and the government.
The program will target customers as well as merchants and small businesses.
Google India, which had announced a program to impart digital training to SMBs earlier this year.
It will extend this training in partnership with MeitY to over 100,000 artisans per year across the country.
The training will be delivered by National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology.
Google India will equip the National Institute trainers with training modules and content.
Google India will also provide mobile training labs to reach artisan clusters across India.
Under the collaboration with the Ministry, Google will also extend specially-designed instructor-led training program course curriculum to the National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology.
This will in turn train over one lakh developers and students through its network of centres.
MeiTY: Know More- Website: meity.gov.in
- Formed: 19 July 2016
- Jurisdiction: India
- Headquarters: Sanchar Bhawan, New Delhi, India
- Cabinet minister: Ravi Shankar Prasad
- Minister of state: P. P. Choudhary
- Predecessor: Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
