News & Reviews:   Microsoft Philanthropies

As of 30 June 2016, Microsoft Malaysia has announced a three-year partnership with the Malaysian Prisons Department (under the purview of the Ministry of Home Affairs), to provide juvenile inmates in the country with digital literacy and upskilling opportunities in the areas of digital inclusion, entrepreneurship, and capacity building.

As part of Microsoft's new three-part initiative  plan, Microsoft Corp CEO Satya Nadella have announced that the recently formed Microsoft Philanthropies will be donating $1 billion of Microsoft Cloud Services. The purpose is to give back to the public, and also to serve nonprofits and university researchers over the next three years.

“Microsoft is empowering mission-driven organizations around the planet with a donation of cloud computing services — the most transformative technologies of our generation,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who on Wednesday will speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Now more than 70,000 organizations will have access to technology that will help them solve our greatest societal challenges and ultimately improve the human condition and drive new growth equally.”