India became the first government to partner with which global company on…

Concept

In disaster-response partnerships, the decisive evidence is the official announcement that names the participating government and company. General disaster-related services offered by other companies do not establish the specific partnership asked about.

Application

The Ministry of Home Affairs reported that the India Disaster Response Summit was organised jointly by the National Disaster Management Authority and Facebook. The same release states that India was the first government to partner with Facebook on disaster response.

Contrast

• Twitter is a microblogging and social-media platform used for rapid public updates, but it is not the company named in this official partnership announcement.

• Google provides search, mapping, and crisis-information tools, but it is not the company named in this official partnership announcement.

• Facebook is the social-media company named by the Ministry of Home Affairs in the first-of-its-kind disaster-response partnership.

• Microsoft provides software and cloud services, but it is not the company named in this official partnership announcement.

Cross-check

The official release also says that Facebook would share Disaster Maps with the National Disaster Management Authority and that the programme would be piloted in Assam and Uttarakhand. These details independently match Facebook, not the other offered companies.

Therefore, the answer is Facebook.