Mexico City - During a meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto on October 1st, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, announced that the Microsoft Corporation will invest $1 billion USD in digital education and inclusion in Mexico over the next three years.

According to Nadella, Microsoft's goal is to boost and support micro- small- and medium- enterprises through the use of technology information, education and digital inclusion - especially in the states of Querétaro, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, Guanajuato and Puebla - where there are existing computer clusters.

The president's office said in a statement that Peña Nieto and Satya Nadella discussed the technology company's evolution and strengthening presence in Mexico over the next 20 years, as well as the prospects of Microsoft's participation in Mexico's growing telecommunications sector.

Following their meeting, they met with the Mexican Youth Institute Microsoft scholarship winners, among whom are some young entrepreneurs who have succeeded in their projects, like Alejandro Cantú, the founder and general manager of the SkyAlert seismic warning system, which was developed with Microsoft's technical assistance and employs its technology, cloud servers and network security.

What began four years ago as a company with four employees that relayed earthquake information through a seismic warning network, today has 75 employees and its own earthquake detection system that sends an alert to its millions of users when it detects seismic activity. "Thanks to Mexican technology and Microsoft's support, people can now know how strong an earthquake is at the time of the alert, whereas before it was just a warning," Cantú said.

SkyAlert has been such a success in Mexico that Cantú is now working on expanding the service outside of the country and is currently in talks with California.