The Digital Faculty, one of many Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International initiatives(MBRGI), in collaboration with the Emirates Crimson Crescent (ERC), introduced the launch of the second version of the “Donate Your Personal Gadget 2.0” marketing campaign, aiming to gather 100,000 used digital units, refurbished and recycled, to assist college students from underprivileged teams within the Digital Faculty world wide.
This step comes inside a complete imaginative and prescient that mixes training, humanitarian work, and environmental sustainability, as units from people and establishments can be assembled, renewed or recycled in accordance with the most effective environmental practices, which can contribute to supporting the tutorial course of and reaching a long-term social and environmental influence.
The Digital Faculty referred to as on the group, people, and establishments, to assist the initiative by donating used digital units or making monetary donations, by way of official channels in cooperation with the Emirates Crimson Crescent, or by way of the marketing campaign’s web site: www.donateyourowndevice.org. You can even contribute by sending a textual content message (SMS) to 2441 for “Etisalat” subscribers, or to 3551 for “Du” subscribers.
Following the nice success of the primary section of the marketing campaign, which introduced collectively greater than 50,000 used digital units with the participation of greater than 100 authorities and personal entities and academic establishments within the UAE, the Digital Faculty introduced the transformation of the marketing campaign right into a everlasting initiative, reflecting a long-term dedication to disseminating data and bridging the digital divide globally.
The “Donate Your Personal Gadget 2.0” marketing campaign embodies the UAE’s imaginative and prescient for a complete and sustainable future, because it goals to scale back digital waste by roughly 200 tonnes, and helps efforts for truthful digital transformation and training for all, by way of qualitative partnerships between technical, humanitarian and environmental establishments.
Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Synthetic Intelligence, Digital Economic system and Distant Work Functions, and Chairman of the Digital Faculty Board, emphasised that remodeling the “Donate Your Personal Gadget” marketing campaign right into a everlasting initiative displays the UAE’s agency dedication to the sustainability method, and interprets the imaginative and prescient of the smart management in using expertise and digital data as efficient instruments for human and societal empowerment.
He identified that the initiative represents a pioneering mannequin in integrating charitable, developmental and environmental work, by recycling digital units and remodeling them into academic instruments that allow college students from underprivileged teams in societies world wide to entry equal and efficient digital training, throughout the framework of the Digital Faculty’s mission to increase complete and sustainable studying alternatives.
He emphasised that the initiative is not only a marketing campaign to gather units, however fairly an built-in strategic imaginative and prescient that goals to create a long-term influence that enhances digital equality, reduces the tutorial hole, and encourages efficient and accountable participation from all segments of society, reflecting the UAE’s agency values of solidarity and sustainable giving.
Dr. Hamdan Musallam Al Mazrouei, Chairman of the Board of Administrators of the Emirates Crimson Crescent, emphasised that the Digital Faculty has led to a serious transformation within the degree of academic companies supplied to the kids of refugees, displaced individuals and weak teams in underprivileged international locations and societies.
He reiterated the Emirates Crimson Crescent’s welcome of its strategic partnership with the Digital Faculty, one in every of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Initiatives, to boost good training alternatives in superior and versatile methods mentioning that the Authority will spare no effort to realize the objectives of the Digital Faculty and increase the umbrella of beneficiaries of its humanitarian initiatives regionally and internationally.
He stated that the Digital Faculty is likely one of the qualitative initiatives within the subject of sustainable giving and selling the values of solidarity and social duty and embodies the nation’s position in selling the United Nations Sustainable Improvement Objectives, particularly the fourth purpose of offering high quality training for all. He identified that the initiative enhances the UAE’s pioneering humanitarian efforts world wide and consolidates its place as a serious centre for international developments geared toward reaching improvement based mostly on training and data dissemination.
Al Mazrouei added, “What distinguishes the Digital Faculty is that it gives high quality training and studying inside a construction that fits future visions, counting on expertise and digital, to maneuver from the framework of conventional training to a brand new kind of training that achieves objectives and is mirrored in college students’ studying in a approach that achieves a excessive degree of satisfaction with its outcomes, particularly in troubled areas which have main challenges of their academic journey.
The second version of the marketing campaign confirms the Emirati group’s ongoing dedication, with its people and establishments, to selling a tradition of sustainable giving and social duty, in a pioneering mannequin of purposeful volunteer and improvement work. It focuses on enhancing group consciousness of the significance of reusing and recycling digital units by way of a variety of group occasions and actions.
The marketing campaign is organised in partnership between the Digital Faculty, the ERC, and Ecyclex firm, with assist from the Ministry of Local weather Change and Surroundings, as a part of unifying efforts to assist sustainable academic initiatives and confront the challenges of digital waste, of which worldwide statistics point out that the world produces about 50 million tons yearly, equal to disposing of 800 laptops per second.
It’s noteworthy that the primary marketing campaign was launched in 2023, as a part of the Yr of Sustainability actions within the UAE, with the purpose of offering 10,000 used digital units after their renovation, to distribute them to underprivileged college students in needy communities.
It succeeded in reaching distinctive environmental and academic achievements, represented in amassing 50,000 digital units, recycling 120 tons of digital waste, and decreasing carbon dioxide emissions by the equal of 122 tonnes as well as, saving 170,000 litres of gasoline, and defending roughly 32,000 sq. toes of land from air pollution ensuing from poisonous digital waste.
The marketing campaign additionally enabled college students world wide to acquire qualitative digital training alternatives that assist their future and improve their skill to study and develop.
In appreciation of the in depth group contributions, the primary version witnessed the honoring of a lot of essentially the most outstanding entities supporting the marketing campaign, together with Dubai Police, Ministry of Well being and Group Prevention, the Dubai Tradition and Arts Authority, the Roads and Transport Authority Dubai, Dubai Municipality, Emirates NBD Financial institution, the American College of Sharjah, Masdar, “e&” Group, Emirates Airways, DP World Charitable Basis, and different entities that performed a pivotal position within the success of the marketing campaign.
The “Digital Faculty”, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, in November 2020, throughout the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Initiatives Basis, is the primary accredited digital college of its sort, and goals to empower college students with digital studying choices, whereas offering a qualitative choice for blended studying and distance studying, in a sensible and versatile approach, focusing on the underprivileged societal teams, refugees and displaced individuals world wide by using digital training and offering fashionable academic supplies and curricula.
The Digital Faculty adopts a complete method to digital transformation in training, based mostly on increasing academic alternatives by way of digital studying choices. The Digital Faculty continues to increase, with greater than 500,000 college students and beneficiaries from 33 international locations world wide benefiting from its packages. It gives academic and coaching content material in 5 languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and Kurdish.