Preparing students – particularly Engineering / Technical graduate students – towards tomorrow’s global work force is definitely a daunting task. Whether it is sweating out in Indian metro’s for so called IT majors like TCS, Infosys, Wipro etc.,  in low end IT services or assisting  big giants like Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc., in their high end pursuit, it is an acknowledged simple fact  that Indian graduates have made their  mark of contribution  in the past. How can this trend be continued? Will the changing global technology and business environment have its effect on this challenge? What are the plans the Indian educators need to follow?

        AICTE – All India Council for Technical Education – with its vision of ‘enhancing the global competitiveness of technical manpower’ – is in the news having taken a bold step of aligning with Microsoft’s cloud deployment. Microsoft is reported to have grabbed the largest cloud customer ever with this initiative! The cloud deployment will expand students' access to high-quality technical education and collaboration. How? When? Who are the stake holders besides Microsoft and AICTE?

         Through live@edu...

         Over the next three months / deployment started and will be implemented fully by 2012 summer…

        More than 10000 technical colleges and institutions / 500 000 faculty member  / 75 00 000 students ( Microsoft says that more than double the size of Los Angeles population …

"Microsoft's cloud platform will make for a truly progressive ecosystem and contribute to the country's technical education by providing a better communication and collaboration platform for institutes and students," said Dr. S. S. Mantha, Chairman of AICTE.

‘...Microsoft's commitment to empower students by deploying Microsoft Live@edu for 7.5 million users across the country with AICTE is commendable and a step towards an informed and developing India. I congratulate both AICTE and Microsoft on this significant milestone," said Mr. Kapil Sibbal, Union Minister for HRD.

What is live@edu? What are the services? Who is going to implement at ground level?

Above all – is a there any new business opportunity for IT professionals/companies?

/Malick Md PMP

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    Malick Md - PMP

    Malick Md - PMP  is an experienced professional, cloud enthusiast and blogger. He lives in Chennai, India.

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