microsoft shape the future program
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In reality the internet developed into what we know today
Unlike no one could ever imagine
In only 20 years
Internet statistics are absolutely amazing:
people are connected
10 years ago they were 360,985,492 (Growth 2000 – 2010: 444.8 %)
Today
Basically internet changed the way we live our life’s like no other event in the past 100 years.
Communicate
Access to information
Get educated
Increase our knowledge base
Buy things
Better educated
Get smarter (sooner)
Make better macro-level decisions
Be more aware of the world outside their local communities and an integrated world will drive international relations towards a global focus
North America
Oceania/ Australia
Europe
Latin America/ Caribbean
Middle East
Asia
Africa
World, AVG.
World Internet Penetration Rates by Geographic Regions - 2010
77,4%
61,3%
58,4%
34,5%
29,8%
21,5%
10,9%
28,7%
Average of 65% in developed countries
Average of 24% in underdeveloped countries
There is a big span in accessing internet worldwide:
Source: Internet World Stats – www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm Penetration Rates are based on a world population of 6,845,609,960 and 1,966,514,815 estimated Internet users on June 30, 2010. Copyright 2010. Miniwatts Marketing Group.
set by the international community to achieve the Millennium Development Goals
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Achieve universal primary education
Promote gender equality and
empower women
Reduce child mortality
Improve maternal health
Combat HIV / AIDS, Malaria and other
diseases
Ensure environmental sustainability
Global partnership for development
Providing massive access to technology so that we achieve:
Improve /access education
Increase knowledge
A NEW MILLENNIUM
At Microsoft, we call this
Digital Inclusion
Leveraging Technology and Innovation
Improving Education & Knowledge
Historically, there has
always been a gap between people and communities who
Each year, being digitally connected becomes ever more critical to:
Proper educational system
Economic Growth
And Social Advancement
Digital Inclusion
Leveraging Technology and Innovation
Improving Education & Knowledge
our former CEO, imagined a world where there was a computer in every home…
Our challenge today is to connect a population of 7,000,000,000 to the cloud of knowledge…
Digital Inclusion
Leveraging Technology and Innovation
Improving Education & Knowledge
Shape The Future will Help Students And Educators Throughout The World To Realize Their Full Potential
Fostering Innovation & Creativity
Enabling workforce competitiveness
Education for all – Digital inclusion
A Public-Private partnership
in action!
A joint effort between public and private entities to improve digital skills…
Public Partners Private Partners
E-escola
When the UMTS licenses were granted, the mobile operations became committed to promote the information society. This programme fulfils that commitment
The total estimated investment into e-Escola program from 2007-2010: 1 billion
26% State
contributions
290M€
31% Users
contributions
340M€
43% Telecom Operators
contributions 465M€ Total
2 million laptops
Spread the message In the Republic of MOLDOVA
your contribution is crucial to
but a right to everyone can not be a privilege of some
Therefore we need a strategy that is sustainable from a technologic and economic standpoint:
Share the same goals and objectives Mobilized by the same causes