Jakarta (MidLand) – Technology company Microsoft will provide training on artificial intelligence (Artificial intelligence/AI) to 840 thousand people in Indonesia.
“I am very, very happy to announce that we at Microsoft will train 2.5 million people by 2025 across the ASEAN region. In fact, 840 thousand people here in Indonesia alone. So we are very, very excited about this training initiative,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella during the event Microsoft Build: Artificial Intelligence Day which took place on Tuesday at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC).
The AI training program for 840,000 people in Indonesia is part of the global tech giant’s mission to provide AI training to 2.5 million people in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN ) by 2025.
The training will take place in collaboration with governments, non-profit organizations, businesses and communities in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
The program will include AI skills training for vocational high school students AI TEACH for Indonesia and opportunities to build careers in cybersecurity for women Ready4AI&Security.
Increased knowledge of artificial intelligence is expected to bring many benefits to Indonesian society.
“AI is now widely used by people here as developers, leading this technology to have a real impact on Indonesian society in various sectors,” Nadella said.
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Nadella highlighted the important role of developers in using artificial intelligence to optimize Indonesia’s potential as a digital economy country.
Microsoft will help spur the growth of the developer community in Indonesia through new initiatives like AI Odyssey, which is expected to help 10,000 people Indonesian developers become experts in the field of artificial intelligence by learning new skills and obtaining Microsoft credentials.
“Our mission is to give every person and every organization in Indonesia the chance to benefit from the next great wave of artificial intelligence and create economic surplus and value in this society. It is very important for us to ensure that everyone can participate in it,” he said Nadella.
“This means that ability is one of the most important considerations,” he added.
It has been recorded that more than 3.1 million developments in Indonesia have used GitHub, Microsoft’s software development, collaboration and innovation platform.
This figure makes Indonesia the third largest GitHub developer community in Asia Pacific after India and China.
Nadella said Indonesia is expected to become one of the five largest developer communities on GitHub globally by 2026.
Indonesia is also believed to be experiencing the fastest developer growth in Asia Pacific, with the number of developers on GitHub increasing 31% year-on-year in 2023.
Additionally, Indonesia is seeing the number of public generative AI projects on the GitHub platform grow by up to 213% year-on-year in 2023.
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Reporter: Pamela Sakina
Publisher: Maryati
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