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The women in tech tag on WindowsForum.com covers initiatives and discussions around skilling, career pathways, and inclusion for women in the technology sector, with a strong focus on AI and cloud training programs in Africa and India. Content highlights corporate-led partnerships, such as Absa's ElevateHer AI programme with Microsoft and Women in Tech, expanding across multiple African markets. Other threads examine the impact of AI on women's entry-level tech roles in India and community-based cloud skills workshops in Nepal. The tag reflects themes of digital inclusion, employability, and the role of vendor-partnered skilling in closing gender gaps in tech.
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    CG Semi Sanand Launch: India Builds Semiconductor Packaging and Test Capacity

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi’s outsourced semiconductor assembly and test facility in Sanand, Gujarat, on July 4, 2026, marking the latest operational plant under the India Semiconductor Mission and adding another packaging-and-testing node to India’s...
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    Absa ElevateHer Expands AI Skilling Across Africa with Microsoft Elevate and WiT

    Absa’s decision to scale the ElevateHer AI skilling programme beyond South Africa and into nine additional African markets is a clear signal that corporate-led, vendor-partnered initiatives will be a central channel for closing the continent’s growing AI skills gap — particularly for women — but...
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    Absa and Microsoft Elevate Expand ElevateHer AI Across Nine African Markets

    Absa’s decision to scale the ElevateHer AI programme with Microsoft Elevate and Women in Tech across nine African countries is more than a corporate skills initiative — it’s a strategic bet on who will own the next wave of digital opportunity on the continent, and how inclusive that ownership...
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    Absa Expands ElevateHer AI Skilling Across Africa with Microsoft and WiT

    Absa’s decision to scale its ElevateHer AI programme from a South African pilot to nine additional African markets signals a major corporate push into continent-wide AI skilling for women — a move that combines a bank’s regional footprint, Microsoft’s global Elevate skilling stack and Women in...
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    AI and the Indian Tech Gender Gap: Preserving Entry Pathways

    For many women in India’s tech workforce, artificial intelligence arrived as both promise and peril: a productivity accelerator that can boost individual visibility and output, and a structural force that risks hollowing out the very entry points and apprenticeship opportunities that produce...
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    Infosys Energy AI Agent: Accelerating Operations with Topaz and Copilot

    Infosys’ new AI Agent for energy operations is a purposeful step toward industrializing agentic AI across drilling, production and field operations — promising faster analysis of well logs, automated report generation, and predictive alerts while leaning on Infosys’ Topaz and Cobalt portfolios...
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    Genese Solution's G Tec Workshop: Nepal's Cloud Skills Pathway to Local Tech Jobs

    Genese Solution’s Tech Job Enablement workshop in Kathmandu is a small but telling example of how private tech firms, local government and community programs are beginning to stitch together practical pathways from training to work in Nepal’s fast-changing digital economy. Background Genese...
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    Poland’s AI Skilling Revolution: Driving Digital Transformation & Inclusivity

    Poland is in the midst of a profound digital transformation, driven by an unprecedented surge in artificial intelligence (AI) skilling initiatives spearheaded by Microsoft and a diverse network of collaborators. Over the past six months alone, more than 500,000 people across the country have...
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    Nigeria’s Tech Revolution: Meet the 5 MVPs Powering Africa’s Digital Future

    If you think “global tech leadership” only wears grey suits and speaks with a Silicon Valley twang, think again—these days, it probably has a dash of suya in one hand and a swag of youthful ambition in the other. Nigeria’s tech revolution is not a distant promise, it’s a red-hot reality, and the...
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    Empowering Women in Tech: Highlights from International Women’s Day 2025

    International Women’s Day 2025 brought a vibrant, forward-thinking energy to the tech landscape as Microsoft UK, in partnership with LinkedIn, hosted an event with a powerful theme: Investing in Our Future – Enable, Empower, Elevate. This celebration reflected not only on the significant strides...
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    Celebrating Women in Tech & Fixing VMware OS Mismatches

    Tech Spotlight: Empowering Women in Tech & Fixing VMware OS Mismatches The technology landscape is ever-evolving, and today our spotlight shines on two diverse yet equally compelling stories. On one side, Microsoft is celebrating the power of female leadership in tech with its groundbreaking...
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    Empowering Communities: IDEMIA and Microsoft's New AI & Cloud Training Initiative

    Let’s face it, talk of cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) might sound like a chorus of fancy tech jargon. But what if these aren’t just buzzwords anymore? What if these digital tools could empower the underprivileged and transform lives? IDEMIA India Foundation and Microsoft just...
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    IDEMIA and Microsoft's Initiative: Empowering Youths with Tech Skills

    The worlds of cutting-edge technology and impactful social endeavors have merged with IDEMIA India Foundation's latest initiative. In collaboration with tech giant Microsoft, IDEMIA is set to empower underprivileged youth—especially women—by preparing them for careers in modern technology. This...
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    A Caltech whiz kid finds her way to Intel

    When graduating senior Michelle Jiang visited a job fair in Florida last year, recruiters were chasing her down. Literally. After dropping off a resume at the booth for Johnson Controls, a maker of heating, air-conditioning and power solutions, the next day the company's recruiter ran up to...