US IT service provider Hewlett Packard Enterprise on Tuesday offered to team up with the Maharashtra to transform digitally 28,000 villages across the State.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who is currently on a two-day of USA, visited Hewlett Packard Enterprise in San Francisco, USA and held a meeting with CEO Meg Whitema.
“@HP is keen to partner with Govt of Maharashtra for MahaNet-an ambitious program of GOM to take digital fibre to 28000 GramPanchayats... By digitally empowering these 28000 villages, it will ensure efficient governance & best healthcare & education facilities. @HP,” Fadnavis tweeted after his meeting with HP CEO Meg Whitema.
Fadnavis, who has been invited to deliver a keynote address before global tech experts at the Oracle Open World 2016, had tweeted earlier: “Reached San Francisco. looking forward to visit @HP & series of meetings. Agenda: Maharashtra’s economic growth & employment generation”.
Oracle will sign an MOU with the Maharashtra Government to develop a comprehensive ecosystem for Smart City initiative (includes funding and nurturing 3 smart cities Kalyan Dombivali, Mira Bhayander & Pimpri Chinchwad.
Ahead of his key note address at the Oracle Open World 2016, the CMO tweeted: “In a rare occasion, Maharashtra CM @Dev_Fadnavis is the featured speaker at the #OracleOpenWorld in San Francisco … This will give market access to small farmers to enable better product realisation and to give a better value to their products
On Tuesday, Monique Meche from Amazon met the chief minister and the two discussed Amazon’s plans to create eco-system for start-ups in Pune.
”Monique Meche from @amazon met CM @Dev_Fadnavis Amazon web services to partner with MaharashtraGovt to create ecosystem for #startups atPune
“Government of Maharashtra & @amazon will also work to create an eMarket for small farmers with a backup of supply chain,” the CMO tweeted.