Alibaba Cloud Launches Tech for Change Initiative for Social Good
February 26 2019 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
New partnership to enable 1 million young women
coders by 2030
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud-computing arm of Alibaba Group, today
announced the Tech for Change initiative at the Mobile World
Congress (MWC). The initiative calls for inspiring ideas and joint
efforts from enterprises, start-ups and young entrepreneurs, to
tackle global social and humanitarian challenges in areas such as
education, economic development and the environment through
technologies.
Alibaba Cloud, which provides cloud infrastructure to transform
businesses digitally, will contribute to the initiative by offering
partners with access to its technology expertise, global computing
resources and talent development programs including Alibaba Cloud
Academy and its AI competition platform Tianchi.
One of the first partnerships of the Tech for Change initiative
is aimed at supporting female education across the world. The first
collaboration revealed at the MWC is with iamtheCODE, the first
African-led global movement to mobilise governments, businesses and
the philanthropic foundation on STEAMED (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, Entrepreneurship, and Design)
education. The partnership will support young women programmers in
marginalised communities through free online training and free
access to cloud computing resources, with the aim to enable one
million woman and girl coders by the year 2030.
“Through the Tech for Change initiative, we want to bring
together creativity and innovation to tackle critical problems and
challenges faced by humanity such as equality in education,
healthcare for the underprivileged, sustainable agriculture and
wildlife protection,” said Dr Wanli Min, Chief Machine Intelligence
Scientist, Alibaba Cloud. “By making technology more accessible and
affordable, we can inspire creativity and nurture the next
generation of game-changers who will make our world a better
place.”
“As an advocate for applying technologies for the social good,
we believe that affordable cloud infrastructure and accessible
intelligent technologies have the potential to enable smaller
organisations to make huge differences in creating a better world
for all humankind.” Min added, “We are calling for everyone to join
forces and be part of the Tech for Change global community.”
The initiative reflects Alibaba Cloud’s long-held value of
empowering the community through technology. Alibaba Cloud has been
working with small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on their
social cause projects over the years, including offering cloud and
intelligent technologies to ROYBI, a robotics company on early
childhood education and Curefun, a Chinese AI company that creates
virtual patients to train doctors and nurses in rural areas of the
country. Alibaba Cloud also built a technical philanthropy
platform, "Green Code” in 2017 to connect professional IT
volunteers with non-profit organisations in China for philanthropy
programs. More than 3,000 engineers registered for charity programs
from 168 organisations in 2018.
Under the partnership with iamtheCODE, Alibaba Cloud will
provide tailored courses on a range of topics including cloud
computing, data analysis, machine learning and security. iamtheCODE
will also add Alibaba Cloud on their blended curriculum, as
certificates will be awarded to young women students who pass the
course to help them along with their career path towards
engineering and other practical subjects. To date over 13,000 girls
have access to the iamtheCODE Curriculum. In addition, each
enrolled student will be offered free access to cloud computing
resources during their study.
"Having its foothold in 64 countries, iamtheCODE is delighted to
partner with Alibaba Cloud to engage more young women and girls
from the most disadvantaged background in the world and use its
technology to change their lives. Our blended curriculum will
become even more accessible as we add Alibaba Cloud on it. For
iamtheCODE, priorities are to use technology to change the lives of
young women entrepreneur through tech, to create employability and
to equip them with the digital skills of the future,” said Mariéme
Jamme, Founder of iamtheCODE. “We are truly honoured and excited
for the young women as they will have access to the new
technological advancements of Alibaba Cloud. This moment is truly
historic. Working with Alibaba Cloud will make a great difference
in the lives of millions of young women globally.”
For more information, please check the website:
https://www.alibabacloud.com/campaign/mwc-2019
About Alibaba Cloud
Established in 2009, Alibaba Cloud (www.alibabacloud.com), the
cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, is among the world’s top
three IaaS providers, according to Gartner, and the largest
provider of public cloud services in China, according to IDC.
Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of cloud computing
services to businesses worldwide, including merchants doing
business on Alibaba Group marketplaces, start-ups, corporations and
government organizations. Alibaba Cloud is the official Cloud
Services Partner of the International Olympic Committee.
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