Government collaborating with Microsoft to prepare youth for the fourth industrial revolution


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 18 Jan 2018

- Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR: Four Youth and Sports Skills Training Institute (ILKBS) will be upgraded with Microsoft's Smart Factory module by 2019 under a collaboration between the tech giant and the Youth and Sports Ministry under the Digital ILKBS initiative.

Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the module under the third phase of the partnership's implementation would see existing machines used for learning in the ILKBS retrofitted with Microsoft technology to make it Industrial Revolution 4.0 ready.

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