New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) Exceeding its own targets, Microsoft Philanthropies on Wednesday announced that it has donated $1 billion in Cloud-computing resources to help 90,000 non-profit organisations worldwide.
In early 2016, Microsoft committed to donate $1 billion over three years in the area to help 70,000 non-profit organisations digitally scale their impact and serve the public good.
As part of the programme, the company has donated a significant sum in Cloud services in India too, it said in a statement.
This includes organisations such as Akshaya Patra and Habitat4Humanity that fight issues like hunger and malnutrition in the country and works with low-income families to build new homes and incremental housing, respectively.
Microsoft has also announced the formation of a 'Technology for Social Impact' group that will work to bring Cloud services to around 300,000 non-profits in the next three years.
The group offers to create comprehensive suite of enterprise-grade software and services, customised to the needs of non-profits organisations.
Doraiah Chowdary Vundavally is a Software engineer at VTech . He is the news editor of SocialNews.XYZ and Freelance writer-contributes Telugu and English Columns on Films, Politics, and Gossips. He is the primary contributor for South Cinema Section of SocialNews.XYZ. His mission is to help to develop SocialNews.XYZ into a News website that has no bias or judgement towards any.
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