Context: Recently, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship in partnership with IBM unveils Free Digital Learning Platform “Skills Build Reignite” to reach more job seekers & provide new resources to business owners in India.
About Digital Learning Platform “Skills Build Reignite”

• It is a joint initiative of Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) and IBM India.
• It tends to provide job seekers and entrepreneurs, with access to free online coursework and mentoring support designed to help them reinvent their careers and businesses.
• Job seekers, individual business owners, entrepreneurs and any individual with learning aspirations can now tap into host of industry relevant content on topics including Artificial intelligence, Cloud, Data analytics and security to reskill and upskill themselves, at no cost.
• Its special feature is the personalized coaching for entrepreneurs, seeking advice to help establish or restart their small businesses as they begin to focus on recovery to emerge out of the COVID 19 pandemic.
• IBM volunteers will serve as mentors to some of the 30,000 Skills Build users in 100 communities in at least five major regions worldwide to help reinvigorate local communities.
• Courses for small business owners include, for example, financial management, business strategy, digital strategy, legal support and more.