Google investment in India

• Every year From 2015, Google India summit, Bcoz of covid 1 st ever virtual edition of #GoogleforIndia on
13 July
• On 13 July CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai announced a new $10B digitisation fund to help accelerate
India’s digital economy over the next 5 to 7 years. They will do this though a mix of equity investments,
partnerships, operational, infrastructures and ecosystem investments.
• Ministers like Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad (IT minister) and Shi Ramesh Pokhriyal (HRD minister) also
joined in this meet
• 1st of all because of because of Covid-19 Google have worked closely with WHO and Ministry of Health
& Family Welfare to surface credible and authoritative information of Covid-19.
• Working with Internet Saathis to disseminate important information on Covid-19 in 50,000+ villages.
• Enabling virtual classrooms for million of kids at home though Google meet, Google classrooms, Read
along and YouTube learning.
• Helped people donate more than Rs.120 crores to the PM Cares Funds, through Google Pay.
• 4 major pillars of above investments are:
1. Enabling affordable access and information to every Indian in their own language.
2. Empowering businesses as they continue or embark on their digital transformation.
3. Building new products and services that are deeply relevant too India’s unique needs
4. Leveraging technologies and AI for social good in areas like health, education and agriculture.
• One of the best eg for Oichai sited was – The AI flood forecasting system which will help warn and
evacuate aeas thatmay get affected by the natural disaster. Also an AI powered reading tutorial app
bolo aka read along to help kids read and learn on their own.
• India is the 2nd largest mobile device manufacturing country in the world. Over 12years more than 2Bn
active devices from over 1,300 hardware manufacturers support Andoid.
• 26mn+ SMBs in India are discoverable across Google search and Google Maps.
• Every month, Google drives over 150Bn+ direct connections like calls, online orders between
businesses and customers.
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