The Andhra Pradesh government will sign a MoU with software
giant Microsoft on Monday to work towards establishing a technologically
advanced and knowledge-based economy.
The MOU will be signed
when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella meets Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N.
Chandrababu Naidu here on Monday over breakfast.
Under the MoU, Microsoft
will support Andhra Pradesh in building of up to three proof-of-concept (POC)
solutions in the fields of education, agriculture and eCitizen services. The
government will utilize Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning and Advanced
Visualization lab technology for predictive analytics. This technology will act
as a major catalyst for achieving sustainable doubt-digit growth and better
public services, said a statement from the chief minister’s office.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has
also offered assistance in cloud technology and will provide training to the
government officials for the better functioning in agriculture, education and
citizen services.
Satya, who is visiting
the home town to attend a family function, will also visit T-Hub, billed as
India’s largest technology incubator developed by the Telangana government.
He will be taken around
the facility, where he will also addressed budding entrepreneurs. Telangana’s
IT Minister K. Tarakarama Rao and other officials will brief him about the
T-Hub, launched last month.
At the request of
Microsoft CEO, the state government is organising the event at low key. The government
has also dropped its earlier plans to release the IT policy on the occasion.
The IT minister had
earlier said that Nadella will unveil IT, innovation, gaming and animation and
hardware policies.
This will be Satya’s
second visit to the city where he grew up, after taking over as the head of the
global software giant last year.
The 47-year-old, during
his first visit in September last year, had met Telangana Chief Minister K.
Chandrasekhar Rao. Tarakarama Rao had also
called on Satya during his own visit to the US in May this year.
Microsoft has its India
Development Centre here since 1998. It is the largest facility of Microsoft
outside its headquarters in Redmond, US.
But there was no word if
Nadella will be visiting the development centre.
