Mozambique: Country to be part of first digital acceleration programme – Microsoft

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Mozambique: Country to be part of first digital acceleration programme – Microsoft

7:56 CAT | 21 Sep 2023

President Nyusi, (right) met on Wednesday (September 20) with the “Digital Development Partnerships Director at Microsoft, André de Aragão Azevedo, to discuss the possibility of cooperating with Mozambique in the field of digital transformation in the first program of the initiative. [Photo: Presidency of the Republic]

Mozambique is negotiating its inclusion in the first edition of a Microsoft digital acceleration programme, the US technology company’s management announced on Wednesday, following a meeting in New York with the Mozambican president.

“It’s the first year of the programme, it’s a launch year. And we’re trying to identify which countries will go ahead with us. Mozambique, at the moment, is positioned as one of the countries at the forefront in terms of moving forward with the programme,” said André Aragão Azevedo, director of Microsoft’s Digital Development Programme, speaking to journalists after a meeting with the Mozambican head of state, Filipe Nyusi.

According to the manager at the American multinational computer technology corporation , yesterday’s meeting was aimed at “working together with the government, together with the country”, to promote “this acceleration of digitalisation in Mozambique and digital opportunities for the Mozambican public”.

“At Microsoft we have created a new programme called the digital development programme. The digital development programme actually aims to support countries in accelerating digitalisation,” added André Aragão Azevedo.

“It brings a series of benefits, a series of advantages for developing countries, for digitalisation systems and, therefore, we are currently in the process of identifying the first countries we are going to work with, the five countries we are going to work with,” he said, acknowledging Mozambique’s “enormous desire” to enter this programme.

“The president has shown this intention and this priority to invest in this issue of digital transformation. And so it was at his request that we actually came to talk and so it is proactively the president who is energising this agenda,” he concluded.

The Mozambican head of state is visiting the United States, where he spoke on Tuesday at the 78th annual session of the United Nations General Assembly.

The visit includes the signing of the second financing agreement, totalling US$500 million, with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) on Thursday at the Capitol in Washington, in the presence of Filipe Nyusi.

Source: Lusa