In Pictures! Google for India 2021: Google Pay to classrooms, see all the new updates rolling out soon
Google for India 2021: Today Google hosted the 'Google for India' event where new product updates focused on the Indian market were announced. Google India's official YouTube channel has livestreamed the event. Now, let us go through all the major updates that Google has announced this year keeping in mind the Indian market. They are as follows:
Digital transformation in India
Sanjay Gupta, Vice President, Google India said, "When you look at the pace of digital transformation in India, it clearly emerges as a break-out country in the world." As per IDC and App Anine sources, Indians are spending 20 per cent more time on smartphones with 2.5 times more smartphone users in the last 12 months with respect to the previous year. As per NPCI, India's UPI payment wave has led to 3.5 billion digital transactions per month. Source: Google India Twitter
Assistant-enabled vaccine booking flow in 2022
Prabhakar Raghavan, Senior Vice President, Search, Google announced a pilot of the first-ever Google Assistant enabled, end-to-end vaccine booking in India. It is set to begin rolling out in early 2022. Source: Google India Twitter
Google Classroom - anywhere and anytime
Sapna Chadha, Vice President, Marketing, Google India and SEA, took through the new features on Google classroom that will help the students to learn from anywhere and anytime. The parents and students can access practice content with the practice problem feature on search. Source: Google India Twitter
Timely weather updates
Nofar Peled Levi, Product Manager, Crisis Response and Weather, Google spoke about the climate-related features. These updates include - reaching more people with flood alerts, easy access to weather alerts. Furthermore, one can access the latest Air Quality nearby by directly joining Google search. Source: Google India Twitter
Google Pay: Bill Split and Hinglish options
Ambarish Kenghe, Vice President, Google Pay said that soon they will be adding a new feature to make Groups (launched earlier this year) even more useful with Bill Split. Furthermore, Google Pay India will also be the first app at Google to have the Hinglish option. Soon, one will also be able to use voice while making direct transfers to bank accounts. Source: Google India Twitter
Helping jobseekers and individuals
Sanjay Gupta, Vice President, Google India said, "The task to make the digital economy more inclusive and help individuals and job seekers to learn skills needed to succeed." These certificates are built by Google experts to prepare learners from across backgrounds for new economy jobs. The learners can learn skills such as IT automation, project management, data analytics and UX design on a single platform. These courses are developed by Google and available via Coursera and are priced between Rs 6000 and Rs 8000. Source: Google India Twitter
Certificate courses with partner employers
Gupta said, "We are building a hiring consortium with partner employers who are keen to hire from Google Career Certificates graduates talent pool." These employers include Accenture, Wipro, Times Internet, Genpact, Mahindra and Better. Source: Google India Twitter
Scholarship programme for 100,000 learners
In order to ensure that the underrepresented learners have access to opportunities in India's new digital economy, Google is collaborating with NASSCOM, Tata Strive and Safeducate to provide 100,000 scholarships for Google Certificate Courses. Source: Google India Twitter