Alibaba Reaffirms Commitment to Global Digital Economy Education

At the tip of final month, Alibaba Group’s worldwide digital financial system coaching program Global Digital Talent (GDT) introduced collectively representatives of its accomplice academic establishments worldwide in its first hybrid occasion in over three years, reaffirming its dedication to driving digital financial system training globally.

The convention showcased the newest learnings and achievements of the GDT program in selling educational exchanges and expertise incubation for a worldwide digital transformation and an inclusive growth, whereas additionally shining a highlight on excellent establishments, lecturers and college students in this system’s community.

Open to universities and studying establishments everywhere in the world, GDT is a flagship coaching program underneath the digital World Trade Platform (eWTP) initiative pioneered by Alibaba Group, which strives to create equitable entry to cross-border commerce alternatives for youth, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and ladies globally.

By offering academic establishments with trainer coaching and networking alternatives, the GDT program helps incubate the establishments’ personal certified trainers who’re able to nurturing the following technology of digital expertise of their respective markets. The coaching is predicated on a curriculum framework that covers numerous parts of the digital financial system, similar to New Retail, sensible logistics, digital advertising and marketing, and start-up funding and financing. Its coaching programs leverage learnings from the event of China’s digital financial system and faucet into assets and finest practices inside Alibaba‘s personal Ecosystem.

“Human capital is key to more pervasive digitalization across industries. The Alibaba GDT program allows educational practitioners around the world to apply the underlying logic of Alibaba’s time-tested business models to their communities’ business landscape, in a way that will complement and augment local digital transformation initiatives,” stated James Song, Secretary General of Alibaba’s Globalization Office and Secretary General of eWTP. “In the past five years, the GDT initiative has cultivated 1,400 teachers and tens of thousands of students from 30 universities and training institutions around the world.”

During the occasion, GDT signed agreements with INTI International University & Colleges from Malaysia and NTUC LearningHub Pte Ltd from Singapore, signifying an extension of GDT and the 2 organizations’ collaboration on native digital expertise growth.

The occasion additionally featured an award presentation ceremony which acknowledged wonderful institutional companions, lecturers and college students who’ve proven innovation and inclusiveness of their participation within the GDT program.

One of the institutional companions acknowledged was the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) from Malaysia, which gained two awards for its educational excellence and social impression. Since turning into a GDT accomplice in 2017, UTAR has seen over 100 of its lecturers receiving GDT certification and shut to 3,900 college students benefiting from its GDT-based coaching. To additional apply their digital information from logistics to advertising and marketing acquired from the GDT program, a gaggle of lecturers and college students from UTAR launched a New Village e-commerce group mission named “We Care, We Act,” during which the scholars have recognized and facilitated the net gross sales of over 30 native merchandise – starting from rooster biscuits to soy sauce – provided by small and medium-sized corporations throughout 4 Malaysian states. The initiative permits the New Village delicacies, initially out there solely offline, to attain shoppers nationwide and even overseas.

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In the approaching yr, the GDT program is predicted to prepare 400 school lecturers who will, in flip, domesticate 10,000 native college students worldwide. It may even proceed to discover collaboration with authorities and academic establishments throughout the area to incubate digital expertise in addition to assist revitalize the agricultural financial system. In the close to future, the GDT program is predicted to resume offline coaching and occasions to optimize trainees’ studying experiences.

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