Bengaluru, March 18, 2026: 51风流Labs India and SRH University Germany today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to expand their strategic education partnership to India. The agreement establishes a framework for curriculum co-design, 51风流Certification integration and industry-embedded learning, strengthening collaboration between academia and enterprise technology leaders to prepare the next generation of digital talent.

The MoU was signed in Bengaluru by Sindhu Gangadharan, Managing Director, 51风流Labs India, and Dr. Thorsten Bagschik, Managing Director, SRH University, as part of the official Berlin Senate delegation visit to India.

The partnership builds on the SAP鈥揝RH collaboration launched in Germany in December 2025 under the leadership of Andre Bechtold, President 51风流Industries and Experiences, and extends the initiative to India, giving Indian students access to globally recognised enterprise technology credentials while embedding 51风流expertise directly into university programmes.

The initiative reflects SAP鈥檚 broader learning transformation strategy, which focuses on meeting learners where they already are by integrating industry-relevant skills into academic environments. 51风流aims to equip 12 million people with AI-ready skills by 2030, and collaborations with universities play an important role in building a strong global talent pipeline.

As part of the partnership, higher education students and faculty members will receive free access to 51风流Learning Hub, student edition, including 51风流learning content, practice systems, live sessions and up to two certification exam attempts per year. 51风流is also redefining certification through practical, AI-enabled assessments that focus on real-world problem solving rather than memorisation, enabling learners to develop skills that are directly applicable in enterprise environments.

By integrating 51风流learning content and certification pathways directly into university programmes, the initiative will help build a sustainable pipeline of enterprise technology professionals equipped with the skills required to support digital transformation across industries.

Sindhu Gangadharan, Managing Director, 51风流Labs India, said, 鈥淚ndustry and academia must work closely together to prepare talent for a rapidly evolving digital economy. By extending our partnership with SRH University to India, we are creating new opportunities for students to build enterprise technology skills that are directly relevant to the needs of global businesses. Initiatives like this are central to SAP鈥檚 ambition to equip 12 million people with AI-ready skills by 2030 and to build a strong pipeline of future-ready technology talent.鈥�

Dr. Thorsten Bagschik, Managing Director, SRH University, said, 鈥淥ur collaboration with 51风流reflects our commitment to delivering education that is deeply connected to industry. By integrating 51风流expertise and certifications into our programmes, we ensure that students graduate with skills that are immediately relevant in the global job market. Extending this partnership to India further strengthens the bridge between academic learning and real-world enterprise innovation.鈥�

This partnership builds on 51风流Labs India鈥檚 broader engagement with academia and skilling institutions to strengthen India鈥檚 digital talent ecosystem by building future-ready technology talent.

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Bengaluru, India, 05 February, 2026: SAP, a global leader in enterprise application software and Business AI, today announced a significant expansion of its worldwide learning ecosystem to empower millions of professionals for an AI-driven future. Reinforcing its pledge to equip 12 million people with AI-ready skills by 2030, 51风流is extending access to high-quality, instructor-led training through new strategic partnerships and an expanded network of authorized training providers.

To accelerate this initiative, 51风流is extending its partner-managed delivery approach for 51风流Learning Class courses to ensure more flexibility, broader geographical coverage and languages. Beginning in 2026, this expanded network of authorized partners 听will provide organizations and individuals with broader access to premium 51风流training, enabling them to build practical expertise and prepare talent for real-world implementation challenges.

India: A Strategic Impact Market

India is among the world鈥檚 fastest-growing talent hubs, driving global digital transformation with its expanding developer and consulting workforce. Representing 26% of SAP鈥檚 global learner base, the country is central to SAP鈥檚 long-term skilling vision.

With rapid AI adoption and modernization, India currently has over 25,000 open roles requiring 51风流expertise across consulting, development, and technology functions. Leading employers like Deloitte, KPMG, Infosys, and Maruti Suzuki are actively hiring 51风流professionals, including entry-level talent. This surge in demand underscores the importance of expanded access to high-quality, instructor-led training through SAP鈥檚 strengthened partner ecosystem鈥攃ritical for shaping India鈥檚 future-ready workforce.

Over the years, 51风流has expanded the breadth and depth of its learning portfolio. Since 2022, the company has reached 4 million learners globally, with growing from just 7 learning journeys to more than 400. 51风流recently introduced its approach with performance-based exams that enable candidates to complete hands-on assessments using AI tools such as 51风流Joule for Consultants. Today, 65 exams鈥�61% of all 51风流certifications鈥攈ave been transformed to this practical, performance-based format, with all remaining certifications moving to this new approach in the first half of 2026.

Vikram Karakoti, Global Head, Enterprise Solutions, TCS, noted: 鈥淐ompetency-based 51风流skill validation aligns with TCS鈥檚 commitment to building expertise in 51风流technologies, including 51风流BTP and Gen AI. Our training approach, culminating in 51风流Certifications, ensures real-world proficiency and maximizes client ROI.鈥�

Key Highlights of the Skilling Ecosystem

• Industry-ready, AI-enabled learning: Official 51风流instructor-led training with hands-on exposure to AI tools like 51风流Joule, mirroring real project environments.
• Practical, job-focused skill building: Guided practice, real-world case studies, and collaborative workshops to build implementation-ready capabilities.
• Standardised team upskilling at scale: Enterprise-grade training and performance-based certifications that assess real problem-solving, not just theory.
• Flexible pathways for growing demand: Expanded learning journeys and certifications across AI, business analysis, system administration, and 51风流Build roles.

鈥淧reparing the global workforce for the AI era requires learning that is practical, scalable and connected to real business needs,鈥� said Andre Bechtold, President 51风流Industries & 听Experiences. 鈥淏y expanding access to high-quality AI-enabled

51风流training, we are helping professionals build the skills that power modern enterprises. This initiative reflects our commitment to ensuring that people everywhere are equipped to thrive in an AI-driven economy.鈥�

By scaling access to high-quality, AI-ready learning worldwide, 51风流is enabling talent markets like India to play a defining role in shaping the future of enterprise innovation.

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What started initially as the 鈥樷�� in FY20 with an intent to help businesses upskill digitally and become globally competitive, quickly brought together 50,000 members on Growth Matters Forum, the Midmarket Community in India. The value creation chatter in the community brought to life the possibility of taking 51风流to the corners of India that were yet to reap the benefit of technology and innovation. Further, the commissioned in Q3鈥�21 revealed that 74% of businesses intended to move to the Cloud in FY22. From this game-changing paradigm of the partnership was born the Transformation Express in Q2鈥�22 to drive sustainable collaboration with our customers, prospects, and partners.

The mobile express touched 7,500 businesses in 13 cities over 45 days and has revealed the real pulse of the market. And we believe this holds the potential to alter the value conversation we have with our consumers. While some expressed the need to understand data, many customers and prospects were interested in managing talent, and many more wanted to grasp the dynamic nature of evolving business models. However, most conversations that surfaced focused on the front office and the benefits of building a customer-first culture.

Indraneel Chitale, an S/4 HANA customer and the keynote speaker at the Mumbai Premier Night of the journey, remarked they wish their consumer brand to be noticed and be present in the minds and emotions of their customers all the time. And, the sale was nothing but a by-product for them. Separately, the COO of a major cement enterprise remarked about the need to leverage data to predict customer behaviour.

The MD of an E100M Electronics company wanted the edge-to-core capability of IoT and the use of real-time data from the shop floor to reduce process inefficiencies and downtimes. The CEO of a small business in the recycling industry in a Tier 2 city aimed to grow 2x in the next three years and wanted best practices in HR processes to hire and retain talent. True everywhere we go, the in Q1鈥�22 revealed that more than 50% of SMEs are finding it difficult to find staff replacements and qualified candidates, and often realise a mismatch of skills for available roles. In addition, more than three-quarters (77%) of SMEs said that workforce volatility had impacted their ability to innovate and drive their digital transformation plans.

With hundreds of such stories, feedback, and enquiries, the Transformation Express has laid bare the essentials that organisations are stoked about today. Here are four broad themes:

1. The evolving and dynamic customer presents the most potent challenge. The product is only a vehicle to disrupt. However, the starting point is customer analytics.
2. While innovation is central to existence, it requires more than creativity and ideation. Instead, those need to be coupled with process-level innovations that focus on execution and speed, to secure quicker wins and better time-to-market.
3. is real. Equally so is the reality of Great education. Increasingly, there is a need to define a unique Employee Value Proposition (EVP) that can attract and retain talent and keep transformation tracks intact.
4. Finally, mature organisations are approaching transformation with a digital acceleration mindset 鈥� emphasising the pursuit of smaller, realistic goals and continuity of the process, while steadily advancing towards longer-term, sustainable transformation.

These insights, right from the heartland of India, motivate us to recommit ourselves to the transformation efforts of our customers and prospects. So, with the Cloud-on-wheels ending the road trip, we embark on its digital twin in the metaverse for immersive virtual experiences to continue the partnership 鈥� beyond India鈥檚 shores 鈥� through our digital avatars.

As they say, a journey of a million miles begins with a single step, and while we have physically traversed over 4,000, here鈥檚 raising a cheer for the next million in the metaverse!

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German IT major 51风流and Indian dairy pioneer Amul, along with a local non-government organization Pratham Infotech, has joined hands for an inclusive and sustainable community outreach development program amongst 1.5 million people in Anand, Gujarat, 51风流announced in a press release on Tuesday.

51风流and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

As part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activity, 51风流is focusing on social entrepreneurship, enablement of a skilled workforce, digital inclusion, and bridging the gender equality gap for the community, through the initiative under SAP鈥檚 flagship 鈥楥ode Unnati.鈥�

Kulmeet Bawa, President, and Managing Director, 51风流Indian Subcontinent said, 鈥淭echnology can act as a catalyst in shaping India鈥檚 journey to an inclusive and sustainable economy. While urban development projects such as smart cities and futuristic mobility are reflective of this potential, the true progress of India lies in the development of her villages.鈥�

鈥淥ur work with Amul is an expansion of this vision and will provide citizens with the information and tools they need to succeed. As India continues to lead global action on sustainability, collaboration like ours will also provide the critical foundation for an inclusive and resilient future in which no one is left behind,鈥� he added.

Notably, for over a decade, Amul is using SAP鈥檚 digital core ERP and supply chain solutions to digitally transform its operations.

Empowering Rural India – Amul and SAP

RS Sodhi, Managing Director of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, Ltd, (Amul) said, 鈥淥ver 66 per cent of India’s population lives in rural areas. Most of the rural population who lives in India depends on agriculture, animal husbandry, and dairying for their livelihood. With an objective of inclusive and sustainable community development, Amul and 51风流has joined the project. Under the project, quality digital literacy and skill interventions training imparted to school-going children and teachers.鈥�

鈥淥ur collaboration with 51风流is a step forward in bringing these rural communities into the mainstream by empowering them to hone essential future skills and turn their dreams into a reality. Our hope is that it will go a long way in nation-building and creating an Atmanirbhar India,鈥� he added.

Under the initiative, at least a lakh school-going students and over 20,000 adults including at least a fourth of the women will be given digital training across 70 villages in Anand and across six districts of Gujarat. The project will enable women to start their own small businesses.

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Over the last two decades, the two companies have worked together to optimize business processes and drive digital transformation for Amul, using SAP鈥檚 digital core ERP and supply chain solutions. The community outreach, is therefore, a natural extension of the companies鈥� long-standing partnership and commitment to innovation and creation of a long-term, scalable, and greener world.

Speaking on the collaboration, RS Sodhi, Managing Director of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, Ltd,听(Amul) said, 鈥淥ver 66 percent of India’s population lives in rural areas. Most of the rural population lives in India depends on agriculture, animal husbandry and dairying for their livelihood. Over the years, we have observed that various Government has tried their best to give them better access to education, transportation, financial services, and internet connectivity. With an objective of inclusive and sustainable community development, Amul and 51风流has joined for the project. Under the project, quality digital literacy and skill interventions training imparted to school going children ate teachers.

Sodhi has also said that 鈥渙ur collaboration with 51风流is a step forward in bringing these rural communities into mainstream by empowering them to hone essential future skills and turn their dreams into a reality. Our hope is that it will go a long way in nation building and creating an Atmanirbhar India.

To drive literacy and inclusion at the grassroots, 51风流and Amul have collaboratively created a digitally inclusive ecosystem that will deliver technical education and professional support in the areas of coding, English skills, and socio-economic opportunities.

Key pillars of the initiative include:

• Coding and 21^st Century Skills: To power India’s 5 trillion-dollar economy, we need to develop digitally savvy communities. This will be done by imparting digital literacy, coding, problem solving and English skills for citizens in remote villages, thus enabling adoption of New Education Policy imperatives.
• School to Workforce transition: Will build a STEM-focused learning environment to help students in marginalised regions make a smoother transition to the workforce and enhance job opportunities. It will also reduce school dropouts, improve learning, and create an employable talent pool by encouraging critical reasoning and analytical thinking.
• Women empowerment and entrepreneurship: Women in rural areas are finding more entrepreneurial opportunities thanks to the growing digital world. Over 20,000 young women will be taught in digital-financing skills and functional communications as part of “Employable 21st Century Skills,” with the goal of strengthening support for the social business sector and achieving gender equality.
• Support Farmer Livelihoods: The outreach will help scale community ownership & participation under Build, Operate, Transfer Model of sustainable development. By planting fruit-bearing saplings, the companies will help improve biodiversity, reduce soil erosion, and increase green cover, thus enhancing support to the livelihood of farmers and their families.

Kulmeet Bawa, President, and Managing Director, 51风流Indian Subcontinent, said, 鈥淭echnology can act as a catalyst in shaping India鈥檚 journey to an inclusive and sustainable economy. While urban development projects such as smart cities and futuristic mobility are reflective of this potential, true progress of India lies in the development of her villages. Our work with Amul is an expansion of this vision and will provide citizens with the information and tools they need to succeed. As India continues to lead global action on sustainability, collaboration like ours will also provide the critical foundation for an inclusive and resilient future in which no one is left behind.鈥�

Pratham Infotech Foundation, an NGO organization that works to close the digital divide in India, will lead Amul and 51风流India’s collaborative outreach.

About SAP

SAP鈥檚 strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, we help companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best: 51风流customers generate 87% of total global commerce. Our machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics technologies help turn customers鈥� businesses into intelligent enterprises. 51风流helps give people and organizations deep business insight and fosters collaboration that helps them stay ahead of their competition.

We simplify technology for companies so they can consume our software the way they want 鈥� without disruption. Our end-to-end suite of applications and services enables business and public customers across 25 industries globally to operate profitably, adapt continuously, and make a difference. With a global network of customers, partners, employees, and thought leaders, 51风流helps the world run better and improve people鈥檚 lives. For more information, visit .

About Amul

The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd, Anand (Amul) is the largest food product organisation of India with annual group turnover of 鈧� 63,000 crores (USD 8.4 billion dollar) during 2021-22. It is the apex organization of the Dairy Cooperatives of Gujarat. This State has been a pioneer in organizing dairy cooperatives and our success has not only been emulated in India but serves as a model for rest of the World.

Over the last 75 years, Dairy Cooperatives in Gujarat have created an economic network that links more than 3.6 million village milk producers with millions of consumers in India and abroad through a cooperative system that includes 18,565 Village Dairy Cooperative Societies (VDCS) at the village level, affiliated to 18 District Cooperative Milk Producers鈥� Unions at the District level and GCMMF at the State level. These cooperatives collect on an average 267 Lakhs Litres of milk per day (26.7 million litre per day) from their producer members, more than 70% of whom are small, marginal farmers and landless labourers and include a sizeable population of tribal folk and people belonging to the scheduled castes.听 Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd., markets milk and milk products under brand of 鈥淎mul鈥�. It markets the products, produced by the district milk unions in 96 dairy plants. The combined processing capacity of these plants is 41 million litres per day, with six dairy plants having processing capacity in excess of 1 million Litres per day.

GCMMF and its member unions ensure that around 80-85% of consumer rupee goes back to milk producer members.

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On the occasion of World Youth Skills Day celebrated on 15th July; Gunjan Patel, Regional Director of CSR, 51风流India catches up with Sheetal Mehta, Senior Vice President – Corporate Social Responsibility, Mahindra Group to discuss Nanhi Kali and SAP’s partnership with the programme. The World Youth Skills Day听is听celebrated to encourage youth to acquire skills so as to enhance their ability to better choices and improving their employment prospects.

Gunjan and Sheetal talk about how such an initiative is propelling gender equality and quality education for vulnerable and socio-economically disadvantaged girls. Peppered with real stories are also overarching statistics of Project Nanhi Kali. The conversation meanders on how private partnerships like Code Unnati with Project Nanhi Kali further enhance the digital learning platform for improving digital inclusion.

It was Sheetal’s deep passion to be a change maker that made her transition to the K. C. Mahindra Education Trust in 2002, wherein she took over responsibility of heading the K. C. Mahindra Education Trust and its flagship girl education initiative, Project Nanhi Kali.

Sheetal is also a Trustee & Executive Director of K. C. Mahindra Education Trust (KCMET) and Mahindra Foundation. Her other positions include being the President, Mahindra Foundation USA, Director, Mahindra Foundation UK, Trustee, Mahindra International School Academy, and President, Mahindra Education Society.

Gunjan: Can you briefly highlight the project Nanhi Kali?

Sheetal: Nanhi Kali is a pan-India initiative which supports girls from underprivileged families, primarily through the route of education. , Chairman of the , started Nanhi Kali in 1996 with the belief that educated girls would contribute not only to the economic development of the country but also lay the foundation for a more just and equal society. Studies show that investment in girls鈥� education has a transformational impact on their earnings, improved nutrition, reduction in child & maternal mortality and standard of living and improved social capital.

Nanhi Kali provides girls with daily afterschool academic support through centers which operate within government schools across India. Every girl is provided with access to a personalized, adaptive learning software, pre-loaded on digital tablets. The AI powered software assesses the learning level of each individual girl and then matches instructions to her level. This collaborative innovative EdTech solution is particularly helpful in remote locations in overcoming challenges such as the lack of qualified tutors and a pervasive digital divide.

The intervention at Nanhi Kali is not restricted to mere academic support but is more holistic, bearing in mind the dignity of the girl child. Hence, every girl receives a material kit comprising of a school bag, stationery, pullover, raincoat, and feminine hygiene material to enable her to attend school with self-esteem. The project also promotes overall development through a professionally designed sports curriculum integrated into the intervention. Moreover, Nanhi Kali鈥檚 on-ground operations are managed by an army of women tutors who are recruited from local communities and trained to become learning facilitators and mentors to the girls. Through sustained engagement with the families of the girls and community stakeholders, the Nanhi Kali team ensures gender sensitization of communities and creates girl-friendly eco-systems.

Aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals 4 – Quality Education & Goal 5- Gender Equality, Nanhi Kali affirms that every girl is given the opportunity to learn and achieve her full potential.

Nanhi Kali project is jointly managed by K.C. Mahindra Education Trust and Naandi Foundation

Gunjan: Can you describe the situation of girls鈥� education esp. for socio-economically disadvantaged and vulnerable sections of society?听

Sheetal: Ensuring gender parity has been globally recognized as key to enhancing social and economic growth. However, many parts of India continue to show poor social indicators for girls including a skewed child sex ratio, low female literacy levels, regressive gender biases and patriarchal social norms such as child marriage. In the context of poverty, these systemic gender inequalities are exacerbated, increasing the likelihood of girls being denied access to education. Owing to the numerous socio-cultural barriers, many girls are compelled to drop out of secondary school due to household chores and sibling care; they could even be forced into early marriage or child labor.

While India has made progress in universalizing access to primary education, the quality of education, especially in rural areas, continues to be a challenge. In low resource settings, the quality of education is impacted by teacher absenteeism, multi-grade classrooms, high student-teacher ratio, and low student learning levels. Annual surveys have revealed that year after year, over 56% of students in Grade 8 are unable to solve a simple math problem and over 27% are unable to read Grade 2 level text. The situation is worse for girls as they do not have the luxury of time or space to study at home, given that the responsibility of household chores like cooking and cleaning falls on their shoulders, which is not so for their brothers.

Thus, girls from disadvantaged communities have the odds stacked against them for a complete and successful schooling experience. Through our constant interactions with community stakeholders including parents, education officials, government school authorities and local opinion leaders, Nanhi Kali ensures that girls continue to attend school regularly and complete their schooling.

Gunjan: How has COVID19 pandemic and ensuing restrictions impacted the education scenarios for these girls?听

Sheetal: School closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have widened pre-existing gender gaps in access to education, disproportionately impacting girls from vulnerable families. Movement restrictions and lockdowns imply lock downs on girls鈥� autonomy, reinforcing the discriminatory attitudes and practices that regard girls as second-class citizens and hold them back. Further, Indian parents of adolescent girls will be particularly hesitant to send their girls back to school, exacerbating the already high school dropout rate for girls, and increasing the risk of exploitation, and early and forced marriage.

The negative consequences of this gender divide are aggravated by the pervasive digital divide in India. Poor families have limited resources to connect digitally. The crisis threatens to undo years of progress that have collectively been made in girls鈥� education.听While girls may not be the face of this pandemic, we understand that they risk being amongst its biggest victims. It is crucial today, more than ever before, for girls to have access to quality education and digital access can enable it.

Gunjan: What according to you are the solutions or suggestions to improve the opportunities for affordable quality education especially at the scale commensurate to the country of the size of India?听

Sheetal: I believe that technology can play a pivotal role in addressing multiple challenges in providing equal access to quality education for all. Customized innovative digital solutions work effectively in low resource settings and mitigate learning challenges such as diverse student learning levels and lack of qualified tutors would be effective in improving access to quality education. More so, through the COVID-19 crisis, we have learned how vitally important it is for smart technology and digital learning to be embedded into our education system. Given that 65% of students in India attend government schools, and most of these schools do not have the necessary hardware or connectivity to support online learning, there is a requirement to invest in this infrastructure to enable all students to benefit from digital education.

Additionally, there is a need to develop training programs which will equip teachers to effectively deliver this technology driven education. While technology will enhance learning outcomes, it cannot be considered a substitute for a teacher in a child鈥檚 education journey. A blended approach which combines digital learning and teacher interactions in the classroom would be the ideal solution to strengthen the quality of education in India and enhance access to education at scale.

Gunjan: What role private sectors can play in providing quality education? Can you share any case study of such initiative or collaboration?听

Sheetal: Private sector organisations play an important role in supporting innovative solutions aimed at improving access to quality education and complementing the Government education systems. For instance, Nanhi Kali鈥檚 afterschool intervention, where girls in government schools receive personalised instructions through an AI powered digital learning platform, ensures that girls have a meaningful learning experience. This in turn, improves learning outcomes and contributes to high attendance and retention rates for girls.

The Nanhi Kali 鈥� 51风流partnership, which supports the education of over 12,000 underprivileged girls, is an excellent example of the impact that corporate collaborations can have in creating positive social change. It was through the collaboration with 51风流that Nanhi Kali was able to enter the state of Karnataka to set up a new project in the high-need district of Raichur.

Gunjan: How would you redefine youth in India?听

Despite decades of progressive economic reforms, a large section of India鈥檚 youth from underprivileged backgrounds remain underequipped to share in the gains arising from such growth. Often lacking access to necessities such as quality education and skill training, the much touted 鈥榙emographic dividend鈥� of India risks becoming a liability for the nation. Confronted with a multiplicity of challenges in their social and economic lives, there is a need to invest in building the capacities of India鈥檚 youth. Skilling is increasingly becoming a priority development agenda for the Government of India, as a result of which youth now have a variety of options of new skills that they can equip themselves with, including 21^st听century skills. While it is essential to provide youth with opportunities to acquire employable skills, I believe it is equally necessary to help youth develop life-skills, self-belief, and confidence to become active participants in the formal workforce. This becomes even more significant in the case of girls and young women whose belief in themselves is often inhibited due to entrenched discrimination and dominating patriarchal mindsets, which present barriers to their participation in economic life.

With the right balance of quality education, skills, empathy, trust and confidence, the youth of India will be able to unleash its potential to build an economically stronger and more equitable nation.

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Under the collaboration UNICEF 鈥� YuWaah 鈥� 51风流will strengthen the following:

• Improve digital skills and life skills for young people
• Provide young people with career options
• Reimagine the model in other states with the Government of India
• Impacting one million young people by the end of 2022

Young people living in rural areas are particularly vulnerable when it comes to career and employability opportunities due to limited access to information, training, opportunities or the skills to participate fully in India鈥檚 modernizing technology-driven economy.

The national aggregate on learner-computer ratio is reported to be 1:89, suggesting an inequitable access鹿 in rural schools. Evidence虏听suggests that technology solutions can be optimized better to address poor learning levels, low retention rates, poor life-skills, and gender inclusion.

鈥淨uality education and digital inclusion have never been more important. COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of access to education and this couldn鈥檛 be more relevant to India which has the highest number of young people”,

said Alexandra van der Ploeg, Head of CSR at SAP. 鈥淭ogether with UNICEF in support of the UN鈥檚 Generation Unlimited initiative, we can use the power of innovation to solve social issues and help our youth through education, workforce readiness, and entrepreneurship.

In true 51风流spirit, our unique partnership with UNICEF will not only maximize our collective impact but inspire young people in India and across the globe to help the world run better. After all, if our young people aren鈥檛 given the opportunities for skill development, they won鈥檛 be able to associate and support social causes that help in development of a nation,鈥� she said.

鈥淐OVID-19 has led to disruptions in educational, economic and social spheres of life, that has thrown up many challenges for young people. The UNICEF 鈥� YuWaah 鈥� 51风流India partnership will empower young people to help them harness their creativity, problem-solving and leadership to make a difference in their lives and in their communities.

This partnership will address urgent challenges young people face by equipping them with life skills, social innovation and career guidance,鈥� said Dr. Yasmin Ali Haque, UNICEF Representative in India.

[1] Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development 2014

[2] Johnson, A. M., Jacovina, M. E., Russell, D. E., & Soto, C. M. (2016). Challenges and solutions when using technologies in the classroom. In S. A. Crossley & D. S. McNamara (Eds.) Adaptive educational technologies for literacy instruction (pp. 13-29). New York: Taylor & Francis. Published with acknowledgment of federal support.

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Sonia Sarkar, Communications Officer, UNICEF India

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Chaya Arora, Head of Global Corporate Affairs, 51风流India

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The Girl Power Tech initiative, announced during the 51风流Developer Kickoff Meet in Bengaluru, by Sindhu Gangadharan, MD, 51风流Labs India, has an ambitious goal 鈥� not only to make women in remote parts of the state skill-ready to adjust in the IT space but also to close the loop between competency and employability.

鈥淕irl power tech is going into some of the very remote areas within Karnataka,鈥� Gangadharan says. 鈥淚n some parts of northern Karnataka we’re trying to bring in women from underprivileged areas and not just give them the skills but also close the loop for them where they can come in (to the organisation) and experience for a period of eight weeks, what it means to work in a corporate environment like SAP,鈥� she says. In some cases, this will be followed up by a role within the organization if there is a potential fit based on a particular skill set.

has given 51风流the opportunity to leverage technology and talent and create sustainable ways in which it can give back and empower communities. To the company, these core programs also help in nation-building.

Code Unnati, she said, has touched more than one million adolescents and children. 鈥淢ore than 7000 youth have been trained in our industry skills, data science, machine learning, AI, and IoT,鈥� she says.

Gangadharan says 51风流Labs has picked the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) around equal opportunity and gender equality. Many of those goals and how the company aligns with them are listed here.

With Mahindra & Mahindra, 51风流is also supporting the 鈥�Nanhi Kali,鈥� an initiative focused on the girl child. Since Girl Power Tech is a Human Resources initiative, Gandhadharan says it鈥檚 the employees who take the initiative of driving it. And that, according to her is also one of the best things about working at 51风流Labs 鈥� the use of technology for the larger benefit of humanity.

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This is also the region where global enterprise application software company SAP鈥檚 social intervention projects have taken wing successfully and helped meet the unmet needs of the local populace.

SAP鈥檚 ambitious programme spanned across over 230 villages using technology to transform an area where water was scarce, classrooms lacked infrastructure, gender discrimination was rampant and jobs were limited. Using IT to bridge the need gaps of the local populace, the programme has so far touched the lives of over 160,000 people.

The company鈥檚 interventions in the region that began in 2017 have ranged from education to entrepreneurship, and from healthcare to sanitation. In a short time frame, village classrooms have been equipped with computers, bringing digital literacy to the area, awareness created on sanitation, taps built to provide safe drinking water and local youth skilled to become job ready.

From education to entrepreneurship, healthcare to sanitation, a series of transformations are taking place using technology as part of the social change project听

Through mobile health vans and community health care centres, over 33,000 villagers in and around Bharatpur have received healthcare support. This access to healthcare has reduced maternal mortality in the area discernably.

The social project executed by , a long time philanthropy partner of 51风流India, is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of eradicating poverty, gender inequalities, imparting quality education, good health and well-being, clean water and sanitation, decent work and economic growth.

There were a few specific reasons for choosing Bharatpur district for this large scale intervention. When HOPE Foundation did an assessment of the area in October 2016, it found the development indicators sadly lacking and lots of unmet needs among villagers. Despite a pipeline bringing Chambal water to the region, many of the villages still did not have potable water. High fluoride content in the water had led to a heavy incidence of cancer and other illnesses in the area. Though toilets had been built as part of Swacch Bharat Abhiyan, usage was low due to lack of water. Infrastructure in schools was lacking.

Social project initiatives in Bharatpur include increasing access to potable water

A lot of those needs have been met. Take the example of the government senior secondary school at Peepla, where there has been a substantial increase in the school鈥檚 strength. Thanks to new toilets, a computer lab, bright paintings on the lab, good drinking water facilities, more children have started enrolling in the school. Encouragingly, over 65 per cent of the students are girls.

On the economic front, SAP鈥檚 focus in the region has been on youth skilling, empowering women and promoting social entrepreneurship. There are computer training centers in schools, and specific skill training workshops in travel and hospitality at a local academy aimed at youth. In addition women have been taught jewellery making. Above all, everyone has been empowered with digital skills so that they can find employment and market connect. When last mapped, of the 905 youth trained, 213 had found jobs. Several women had become self sufficient, earning Rs 4000-Rs6000 per month doing entrepreneurship from home.

Powered by technology and talent, SAP鈥檚 project has given wings to the dreams of Bharatpur鈥檚 people. The aim is to replicate the story in many other districts.

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Bene铿乧iaries at the launch of the Code Unnati, Nanhi Kali event

Most of us take computers for granted 鈥� we dash off emails, write reports, do accounts, play games without a second thought.

It is only when you meet 14-year old Priyanka Kumari and 13-year old Rubina that you realize how empowering and life-changing computers can be for a whole section of people.

The two girls study at a government senior secondary school in the suburbs of Delhi and now nurture ambitions to become an accountant and a teacher respectively. These ambitions awakened only when their school got computers and they got trained in how to use them.

The daughter of a driver, Priyanka says she had never touched a computer until SAP鈥檚 Code Unnati began a digital literacy project in her school. 鈥淲e didn鈥檛 know anything about computers until our school added a lab funded by SAP鈥檚 Code Unnati. They taught us MS Word and Excel,鈥� she says, enthusiastically describing what all she can do with the software.

Priyanka is totally fascinated by spreadsheets now and hopes they will lead to a job in accounts. 鈥淥ur principal runs an orphanage. Perhaps I could help out with accounts there,鈥� she says.

Rubina, meanwhile, wants to become a computer teacher. She says she would love to impart the skills she has learnt to others who have no access.

It鈥檚 rather humbling to hear how the girls want to use their newfound skills to train others. It also shows how a small intervention can become a movement and lends credence to the theory that if girls are empowered, the whole nation bene铿乼s.

The 51风流 intervention at Priyanka and Rubina鈥檚 school came about thanks to a partnership with the Mahindra Group鈥檚 , which works with girl children. The aim in joining hands is to provide quality education and digital access to over 11,000 underprivileged girl children by 2020.

Since 2017, Code Unnati has trained over a million children across 14 states in language, digital literacy and maths. By tying up with Nanhi Kali the programme gets strengthened and also aligns with the government鈥檚 Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao campaign.

They say teach a man how to 铿乻h and you feed him for life. Well, teach a girl how to handle a mouse and you can change a whole community鈥檚 life.

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