| | 8 February 2018HIGHERReviewEDUBUZZEDUBUZZThe technology giant, Apple partnered with the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai led Malala Fund to extend education funding programs to India and Latin America. Founded by Malala Yousafzai and her father Zi-auddin, the Fund aims to empower young girls and help them access the quality education they deserve. With an initial goal to extend secondary education opportunities to more than 100,000 girls, Yousafzai is determined to reach every girl child and offer education in future. Apple's con-tributions in the welfare expansion include assistance with technology and curriculum for the organization. Addition-ally, the tech giant will monitor Malala Fund's policy mod-ifications that are required to globally help girl's complete education. For processing out the same with success, CEO Tim Cook will join the leadership council of the organiza-tion. The Malala Fund currently operates in Pakistan, Af-ghanistan, India, Nigeria, and countries where there are Syrian refugees, like Lebanon and Jordan. The partner-ship also means the Malala Fund will be able to double the number of grants it distributes through its Gulmakai Network. The Gulmakai Network supports local educa-tors and activists in developing countries that deal with different threats to girls' education like poverty, war, and gender discrimination.The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the formation of Future Skills ­ a platform that aims to provide education on cutting-edge technological innova-tion. The announcement was made at the World Con-gress on Information Technology 2018 or the WCIT. ICT associations from over 80 countries had attended the event. India's main information technology group, the National Association of Software and Services Companies or NASSCOM worked on the platform, hoping to provide citizens aged 18 to 35 better grounding in technologies. Blockchain technology was one of the eight areas of train-ing mentioned. Remarkably, over a year ago, the Reserve Bank of India's research division stated that blockchain technology had "matured enough" to be the core driver to support the digitization of India's fiat currency, the rupee. Now a new blockchain platform for multiple ap-plications in India's financial industry has been developed by the central bank's research division. Apart from this, many other blockchain-specific endeavors in the country are also in progress. SEBI, India's securities regulator has set up its own committee to investigate blockchain solu-tions. Moreover, Andhra Pradesh has taken a step ahead of other states and has already started developing block-chain applications in a number of areas like land registry and citizen data storage. Apple and Malala Fund team up to support Girls' Education Prime Minister Narendra Modi Announces Educational Platform for Blockchain Technology
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