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