ENA Global 2019-04-16 11:02:01 <p><span style="font-size:11pt"><strong>New Delhi, Apr 16 (KNN)</strong> Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) and Facebook announced a partnership to train entrepreneurs and create jobs across India.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt">The aim of this partnership is to ramp up job creation and to further empower entrepreneurs, in line with Facebook's commitment to train 5 million people with digital and entrepreneurial skills by 2021. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt">The initiative will promote entrepreneurship among youth and enable entrepreneurs to collaborate, learn and succeed.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt">This partnership will provide means towards making mass entrepreneurship aspirational, nurturing entrepreneurial mind sets early, converting job seekers to entrepreneurs, helping single and micro-entrepreneurs grow and enabling women to start and succeed as mass entrepreneurs. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt">GAME and its partners will assist small entrepreneurs build their businesses using digital platforms to aggregate demand, market products and acquire customers.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt">GAME and Facebook will kick-start their engagement with a project empowering local communities of rural entrepreneurs - using digital and physical modes, a landscape review and identification of solutions for women entrepreneurs and a grand prize challenge for innovative models that spur new business creation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt">Phase one to be rolled out this year will cover 10 states across the country including Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir, and Maharashtra among others. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt">Commenting over this partnership, Founder of GAME and ex- Chairman of Microsoft India and Bank of Baroda, Ravi Venkatesan said Imagine the power of a platform that can bring together communities of artisan clusters, agri-entrepreneurs or homepreneurs in the thousands to learn, collaborate and succeed- the possibilities are boundless.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt">That potential to transform the world for small entrepreneurs is what excites us most, about our partnership with Facebook, he added.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt">Public Policy Director, Facebook - India, South &amp; Central Asia, Ankhi Das said We believe that when you give women and youth the skills and technology to improve their lives, we can equip them to unlock economic and social value for themselves and their communities. Our partnership with GAME seeks to create these models and implementations in priority states.</span></p> 22479 https://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/global/game-facebook-partner-to-train-entrepreneurs-in-india 2019-04-16 11:02:01 knnindia.co.in