MICROSOFT EDUCATION
“ To at least provide access for every student is a moral imperative ”
SERENA SACKS-MANDEL GLOBAL CTO , MICROSOFT
As Sacks-Mandel explains , central to providing education to all is ensuring students have proper access to tools . An example of this is India . The country will have the highest population of young people in the world over the next decade , and through its National Education Policy 2020 policy aims to provide every single student with a device , with bandwidth , enabling them to learn English .
“ Those are the three things that students need to overcome the digital divide ,” Sacks-Mandel says . “ If they can execute on that desire , they will close that digital divide because those students – even in the most remote little villages – will be able to learn English , connect to the resources , the best resources in the globe to be educated , and they will join the global workforce .
“ However , if you have a group of students in the mountains of West Virginia and we haven ’ t done our work to activate the internet for them , they ’ re going to get left behind .
“ To at least provide access for every student is a moral imperative ,” she adds . “ Where Microsoft provides accessibility
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