alibaba cloud youth cloud was invited to participate in the annual meeting of unesco and has donated more than 200 ai cloud classrooms to remote areas
2024-09-06
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on september 6, unesco held its annual conference event "digital learning week" at its headquarters in paris. the alibaba cloud junior cloud team shared alibaba's green and low-carbon progress and its public welfare practice and thinking on using cloud computers, ai big models and other digital technologies to help china's rural education to be digital and sustainable. at present, the "alibaba junior cloud education aid program" has donated more than 200 ai cloud classrooms to remote areas of china, benefiting 180,000 primary and secondary school students and teachers. this is the second consecutive year that the junior cloud team has participated in the conference, and it is also the only chinese education public welfare project invited to participate.
alibaba cloud junior cloud team attends unesco annual meeting (second from right)
unesco digital learning week is the most important official event of unesco every year. participants include ministers of education or information technology from various countries, senior policy makers, experts from international organizations, well-known academic researchers, etc. the theme of this year's unesco digital learning week focuses on achieving people-oriented, environmentally friendly educational design and artificial intelligence education, with a special focus on exploring the interconnection between digital transformation and green education.
huang guijing, senior vice president of alibaba cloud education and head of the youth cloud education program, shared alibaba's three low-carbon emission reduction strategies at the unesco event: improving technology innovation, energy transformation, and promoting the ecosystem of participants. alibaba cloud plays an important role in this, from continuously improving the power usage efficiency (pue) of self-built data centers, to continuously improving the proportion of clean electricity used in alibaba cloud's self-built data centers, to the energy consumption treasure that made an important contribution to the low-carbon olympics in paris. alibaba cloud has been working hard to build a green and low-carbon cloud.
paris olympics 100% powered by alibaba cloud
at the same time, in the field of digital education, alibaba continues to practice the concept of "using technology to promote the digital transformation of education" to allow cutting-edge technology to play a greater social value. since 2021, alibaba has launched the hot land plan to help rural revitalization. in the field of science and technology, it has launched the "youth cloud education plan" public welfare project, and continued to donate "ai cloud classrooms" to primary and secondary schools in underdeveloped areas to help improve information technology infrastructure, stimulate children's digital creativity earlier, and promote educational equity with technology. this project is also one of the 17 sustainable development goals of the united nations.
action on the 17 un sustainable development goals
huang guijing introduced that the "ai cloud classroom" is developed based on the technology of alibaba cloud's shadowless cloud computer. the computing and storage are all in the cloud. you only need a screen to access a cloud supercomputer with ever-changing performance, no need for operation and maintenance, and safe and stable. it has built-in the world's leading ai large model capabilities, which greatly reduces the threshold and cost of rural teachers and students to experience the latest it technology. at the same time, the power consumption of a shadowless cloud computer is about 1/4 of that of a traditional computer. the electricity saved by a classroom in one year can be used for the daily life of a family of six for one year. at present, the "youth cloud" has been successfully implemented in more than 200 schools in more than 20 provinces in china, benefiting 180,000 primary and secondary school students and teachers, and greatly improving the local information education environment.
fourth-grade students from shinaihai town, qinghai province experience aigc technology in the ai cloud classroom
at the unesco conference, huang guijing also demonstrated the latest features of the ai teacher "xiaoying". it has functions such as digital human encyclopedia q&a, lesson plan design, courseware design, and learning situation analysis, which can reduce the burden on teachers and increase efficiency, and help realize personalized teaching and learning. the development of the application refers to the general artificial intelligence guidelines for education and research issued by unesco last year, and adopts a people-oriented design approach. let educational resources be better used by teachers and students with the support of artificial intelligence. in the future, through cooperation with education departments, wuying will develop more large-scale model education applications that meet local learning conditions.
"everyone becomes a part of the digital transformation of education and green education." huang guijing said that while making a commitment to carbon neutrality, alibaba will continue to be committed to injecting vitality into education through digital technology, making it more sustainable and inclusive, and further promoting sustainable development.
