Alibaba Challenges Students to Create Solutions for a Post Covid-19 World
April 20 2020 - 4:00AM
Business Wire
GET Network to judge and fund six winning teams
from 13 markets
Innovative students from across 13 markets who want to help the
world and be rewarded for their ingenuity will now have the
chance.
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Alibaba Business School has announced the launch of Alibaba
Global E-Commerce Talent (GET) Global Challenge 2020, aimed
squarely at helping businesses and organizations worldwide recover
faster and rebound stronger in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The competition will empower the next generation of entrepreneurial
talents to contribute by creating transformative digital solutions
in collaboration with mentors and partners from the Alibaba
network.
Targeted at university and higher education institution students
from 13 markets including the African continent, China, Colombia,
France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia,
Serbia, South Korea, Thailand and Uzbekistan, the competition will
be conducted virtually and span four phases, starting this month. A
minimum of 100 teams, each comprising three to five members, are
expected to compete. Following national finals that will take place
between June and August, over 30 teams will face off virtually in
the World Finals from August 17 to 25, 2020.
“The pandemic is fast-becoming a generation-defining moment,
especially for the incoming class of talents. We have collectively
risen to the occasion with digital tools invented and repurposed to
limit and mitigate the difficulties faced, and there is no better
time to get our future talents to lend their creativity and digital
savviness in helping the world to recover,” said Zhang Yu, Alibaba
Group Partner and Vice President. “We have seen examples of how
digital transformation can play a key role in reducing day-to-day
struggles, improving work productivity and quality of life. We hope
the challenge will spur the creation of even more life-changing
solutions not just for now, but for the future as well.”
Teams submitting their business proposals will receive coaching
and reference materials based on modern case studies and learning
assets via Alibaba’s DingTalk live streaming sessions. These will
be conducted by GET Network-certified experts and Alibaba-trained
managers and eFounders, who are regular instructors for Alibaba
Business School’s various existing digital training programs.
Participants will have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge on
digital economy topics ranging from digital transformation,
customer-centricity, start-up landscape to pitching for investment
and more. The top six teams who qualify for the world finals will
also receive one-on-one coaching sessions.
The teams will be judged on the innovativeness of their
proposal, ability to solve real-world problems, as well as the
feasibility, sustainability, and scalability of their new ventures.
The final six teams will receive two additional benefits in the
form of business funding by Alibaba and the eligibility to join the
global GET talent bank, which will provide even more support for
their business endeavors. The winning team will also be granted a
fully sponsored digital economy discovery trip to Alibaba’s
headquarters in Hangzhou, including exclusive sessions with Alibaba
GET Network trainers.
The Alibaba GET Network was initiated in 2018 as an extension of
Alibaba’s GET program which, to date, has benefitted 80 education
partners and trained more than 300 lecturers and over 13,000
students and other participants from Australia, India, Israel,
Mongolia, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, South Korea, Singapore and
China.
Interested participants can head to this link to know more
details and find contact of country hosts:
https://bit.ly/2RyIzs8
About Alibaba Group
Alibaba Group’s mission is to make it easy to do business
anywhere. The company aims to build the future infrastructure of
commerce. It envisions that its customers will meet, work and live
at Alibaba, and that it will be a company that lasts at least 102
years.
About Alibaba Business School
Alibaba Business School conducts training programs and
workshops, with the vision of empowering the Digital Economy
through education to share the positive impact of a new business
paradigm in promoting inclusive development and to inspire and
empower entrepreneurs, youth and women globally. These programs
encourage entrepreneurs to share and use digital economy tools to
create positive social impact and to collaborate with each other as
well as the public sector to create larger impact. To date, there
are over 500 digital entrepreneurs and business leaders from 28
countries trained directly by Alibaba Business School, who have
subsequently shared with over 2 million policymakers,
entrepreneurs, SME’s, practitioners and students in their own
countries.
About the Alibaba GET Network
The Alibaba GET Network is part of Alibaba’s mission to make it
easy to do business anywhere. By tapping into the resources and
best practices from the Alibaba Group ecosystem worldwide, the
initiative aims to share the positive impact of the new business
paradigm of the digital economy and promote inclusive development
to inspire and empower youth globally. The Alibaba GET Network is
open to universities and educational institutions wanting to
incorporate digital economy curriculum in the education and
training system and develop young entrepreneurs and digital
talents.
For more information about Alibaba GET Program, please visit
https://get.alibaba.com
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