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Published May 25, 2021, 11:27 AM
Microsoft has partnered with JA Asia Pacific, the world’s largest youth-serving non-profit organization, and CloudSwyft, a leading cloud-based learning platform provider, to launch a regional skilling program aimed at bringing skills resources and accelerating paths to employment for more than 60,000 people in Asia Pacific, including 4,000 from the Philippines.
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Launching in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, the program will see joint efforts to reskill, cross-skill and upskill young adults, especially those in underserved communities. This program is an extension of Microsoft’s broader Global Skilling Initiative to help people hardest hit by job losses acquire digital skills.
BusinessWorld
May 19, 2021 | 2:40 pm
MICROSOFT CORP. has partnered with JA Asia Pacific and CloudSwyft to provide a skilling program for young jobseekers in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Of the targeted 60,000 participants this year, 4,000 will be from the Philippines. Â
âCOVID-19 has accelerated the shift towards a digital economy, and organizations here in the Philippines are requiring greater digital skills from talents so that their businesses can adapt and thrive in this new environment,â said Andres Ortola, Microsoft Philippines general manager, in a recent statement.Â
The new program is an extension of Microsoftâs broader Global Skilling Initiative, which reported last month that over 150,000 Filipinos had gained digital skills via its online courses, to be offered until the end of 2021.Â
BusinessWorld
May 10, 2021 | 12:04 am
Senior Reporter
MICROSOFT Philippines, Inc. is looking to bring conversational artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to health-care institutions in the country to help them address their patients’ needs, a top official said.
Abid Zaidi, Microsoft Philippines chief operating officer, told
BusinessWorld in a virtual interview on April 30 that the US-based multinational technology company Microsoft Corp. recently entered into an agreement to acquire Nuance Communications, Inc., a conversational AI solutions provider, for “close to $20 billion.”
“What this means for the Philippines is that, although we have been engaging with health-care institutions here, with AI technology, we’ll be better geared up to address their needs,” he said.