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Panasonic Corporation Emphasizes Holistic Well-Being in Its Products; Announces New Brand Action Tagline “Create Today. Enrich Tomorrow.”

MANILA, Philippines, Jan. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Panasonic Corporation today unveiled in The Philippines its new brand action tagline ‘Create Today. Enrich Tomorrow’, as part of their continuous efforts to better champion solutions that emphasize the well-being of people, society and the planet.

The new brand action tagline aims to enhance people's quality of life and take care of the environment
The new brand action tagline aims to enhance people’s quality of life and take care of the environment

Panasonic has a long-standing mission established by its founder Konosuke Matsushita which says that the corporation should contribute to society and tackle global challenges around climate change, which are both key to its strategic direction moving forward.

In April 2022, Panasonic Corporation was set up as a new company within the Panasonic holding company structure, incorporating the business operation that produces appliances for day-to-day life. Mr Masahiro Shinada, President and CEO of Panasonic Corporation shared that the corporation will continue fulfilling Panasonic’s mission through ‘Create Today. Enrich Tomorrow.’

Shinada said, “This represents our thinking as a company and our goal as a manufacturer to enhance the quality of lives of people by creating useful and high-quality products today that improve their holistic well-being. At the same time, we are also taking care of the environment and developing innovative technologies to enrich all our lives tomorrow. These contribute to our commitment to ensure that families and individuals can continue to rely on us and trust us to fulfill their home and lifestyle needs.”

Each word of the slogan has its meaning:

CREATE useful, high-quality products that improve people’s lives and make the world a better place. This is the essence of who Panasonic is.

TODAY our customers need us to develop technologies and engineer solutions to improve their daily lives and their personal wellbeing. We deliver with relentless innovation and our commitment to sustainability.

ENRICH the world together. At the heart of everything we do is the wellbeing of our customers and our planet. Panasonic’s goal is to enrich the lives of those around us, every day.

TOMORROW we will continue to enhance our products, services, and solutions to help our customers lead their best lives and to help our future environment.

Expanding on the focus areas of ‘Create Today. Enrich Tomorrow.’, Mr Takahiro Oyama, Deputy Managing Director of Panasonic Appliances Marketing Asia Pacific said, “Moving forward, these three well-being categories — Inner, Outer and Spatial Wellbeing — are the foundation of the design and purpose of all our products and services. ‘Inner Wellbeing’ starts from the kitchen through healthy eating, while ‘Outer Wellbeing’ focuses on physical hygiene. ‘Spatial Wellbeing’ aims to create a comfortable living atmosphere at home that is safe and clean.”

Holistic Wellbeing sits front and center in the design and purpose of Panasonic's products and services
Holistic Wellbeing sits front and center in the design and purpose of Panasonic’s products and services

From a product design and feature standpoint under ‘Inner Wellbeing’, Panasonic will use proprietary technologies for heating, pressurizing, and stirring foods, as well as radio wave sensing technology for defrosting to help preserve these flavors and offer consumers the ability to cook tasty food using less salt and fat.  

‘Outer Wellbeing’ products will feature more biometric sensing and analysis technologies to create targeted skin care regimens based on individual needs such as hair type or skin type. ‘Spatial Wellbeing’ products feature nanoe technology to improve the quality of air we breathe, as well as hometainment solutions that meet the demand for high-definition entertainment in a living space in this digital era.

Panasonic also shared that the new brand action tagline will be underpinned by their commitment to protect the global environment through two pillars – carbon neutrality and promoting a circular economy. The corporation aims to reduce more than 300 million tons in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 from its own value chain and avoided emissions through utilizing clean and efficient energy solutions, as well as improve product durability and design products that can be easily disassembled for reuse and recycling.

For more information on our branding ‘Create Today. Enrich Tomorrow.’, please visit our homepage at www.panasonic.com/ph/consumer/create-today-enrich-tomorrow.html.

For enquiries, please contact
Ms. Phoenix Manayaga
Marketing Communications Manager
Panasonic Manufacturing Philippines Corporation
phoenixdianne.manayaga@ph.panasonic.com 

Vipshop Retains an A from MSCI ESG Ratings for Its Efforts in Sustainability

GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Vipshop Holdings Limited (NYSE: VIPS), one of China’s leading online discount retailers, recently announced that its ESG-related performance has been recognized by major rating agencies in the capital market. The company retained an “A” from MSCI ESG Ratings in 2022, above the average for the e-commerce sector. The discount retailer also obtained a score of 46 in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), as a top player in the global retail sector, with outstanding performance in the rating components for Product Packaging and Supply Chain Management.

Vipshop Headquarters Building
Vipshop Headquarters Building

This year, Vipshop strengthened its ESG-related efforts on all fronts. In terms of the environment, the company has established a special leadership team to ensure the effective implementation of its energy conservation and carbon reduction plans by developing a comprehensive environmental management system and a top-down operation mechanism. The company expanded its big data resources, and streamlined the platform support systems, logistics and warehousing, to help brand partners and suppliers improve their operational efficiencies and curb energy consumption, alongside an integration of their decreased energy use with their carbon reduction efforts across the value chain.

In the third quarter of 2022, for the first time, the company conducted a systematic assessment of the feasibility of a sustainable and green carbon reduction roadmap, taking a holistic look at decarbonization opportunities along the value chain. It implemented the use of new lightweight and environmentally-friendly color bags, cutting plastic consumption by 123 tons, while continuing to increase the utilization of clean energy, with the total power generation capacity of photovoltaic power plants rising by 11.4% year-on-year.

Seeking to create a better working environment, the company provides equal work opportunities for all employees and stimulates their potential through a comprehensive career enhancement system, with the aim of achieving mutual benefits for Vipshop and its employees. In 2021, the company’s investment in employee training increased by 68.57% year-on-year, with total training hours exceeding 130,000. As for social responsibility and public service, Vipshop has deepened its efforts in the empowerment of women, rural revitalization, pandemic prevention and control, community integration, and volunteer services through a series of flagship public service projects including the V-Love Mothers, V-Love Charity Program, V-Love Workshop and VIP Love Aid for Agriculture programs, with total investment having reached RMB470 million as of the end of the third quarter of this year.

Taking a look at corporate governance, according to the ESG report released by the company in July 2022, Vipshop had created a three-tier social responsibility management structure consisting of an ESG working group, a focal point and an executor to clearly identify and assign social responsibility management tasks at all levels. As an important part of its CSR management practices, the company attaches importance to the expectations and demands of stakeholders and integrates them into its daily operations.

In line with meeting China’s goals to achieve carbon peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, ESG has been taken on substantial importance in the Chinese market and has become a new benchmark for appraising the quality and sustainable development capabilities of Chinese companies.

According to A Leapfrog Moment for China in ESG Reporting white paper produced collaboratively by the World Economic Forum and PwC China, China’s listed companies are increasingly familiar with both the challenges and benefits of ESG reporting. ESG reporting in China is at an inflection point, with a surge of activities from regulators, exchanges, investors and corporate leaders.

The boom in ESG management in China has boosted the overall ESG performance of Chinese companies. MSCI-ESG Ratings data shows that, in recent years, more Chinese companies have emerged among the top performers with A-AAA ratings. In the foreseeable future, Chinese companies and the Chinese market may have a more profound impact on global ESG development.

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H3C Digital Tour 2022 in Indonesia comes to a successful conclusion

Driving a new journey of digital transformation of the local market

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia, Nov. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The H3C Digital Tour 2022 recently came to Yogyakarta and Surabaya, Indonesia. Themed “Together, For A Digital Future”, the event brought together many local ICT industry leaders, government officials and enterprise customers, and ecosystem partners. By roundtable discussion and case sharing, the participants shared how to sustainably empower local digital economic development, with the goal of leading Indonesia into a new journey of digital transformation.

H3C Digital Tour 2022 in Indonesia comes to a successful conclusion in Yogyakarta and Surabaya
H3C Digital Tour 2022 in Indonesia comes to a successful conclusion in Yogyakarta and Surabaya

According to a report from Indonesian news agency Antara, the country’s digital economy is expected to grow from IDR 632 trillion (approx. US$44.5 billion) in 2020 to IDR4531 trillion (approx. US$320 billion) by 2030. Besides, the Indonesian government will focus on infrastructure investment in the ICT sector over the next five years, with a planned total investment reaching 2.5 percent of GDP, reported by People’s Daily from China. Over the years, H3C has been deeply engaged in the Indonesian market and has been supported to build the IT environment of “digital native”.

Given where Indonesia currently sits in terms of its development roadmap and where that roadmap fits in with the global digital economy, H3C launched four scenario-based solutions based on local market expectations, including Synergy Working, Innovative Education, Efficient Healthcare, and Reliable Public Service for government and enterprise customers. The company also rolled out the proprietary comprehensive operation management and maintenance platform H3C Cloudnet, the hyper-converged product designed for enterprise and industry data centers UIS 7.0, the tri-band Wi-Fi 7 router, the 8K ultra-high-definition H3C Cloud Screen, alongside a full lineup of routers and other innovative solutions and products.

The “Win-Win-Win” and “Partner First” strategy is a key to H3C’s efficient service system and sustainable development globally. H3C’s full-stack products and solutions into the local market are bolstered by efficient service guarantees with technical support from more than 2,000 ICT experts and 24×7 service.

Marco Ma, general manager of H3C Indonesia, mentioned, “We continue to participate in the digital transformation of the local government, banks and schools as we seize digital development opportunities across all industries, and achieve mutual benefits in the process of empowering local partners and users. We have a cutting-edge partner support plan and incentive mechanism, which can empower partners in an all-round way. By integrating the capabilities of all partners, we create shared value and work together to build a digital ecosystem.”

Opening speech by H3C Indonesia general manager Marco Ma
Opening speech by H3C Indonesia general manager Marco Ma

Currently, H3C has successfully certified over 1,000 overseas partners, established partnership with over 200 overseas service providers, and delivers services in 135 countries.

Looking ahead, H3C, as one of the most trusted partners, will continuously adhere to the corporate vision of “Shaping the Digital Future for a Better Life”, effectively meet the expectations of local people who seek to lead a smarter life, and drive Indonesia’s digital development to a new level.

Huawei: Advanced Connectivity, Boost Growth

BANGKOK, Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — During UBBF 2022, Mr. Simon Lin, Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Asia-Pacific Region, delivered a keynote speech entitled “Advanced Connectivity, Boost Growth”. In the speech, he set out a roadmap for how operators can unleash the full value of connections in home and enterprise scenarios and how green networks can underpin the green development of various industries.

Simon Lin, Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Asia-Pacific Region
Simon Lin, Senior Vice President of Huawei and President of Huawei Asia-Pacific Region

Home setting: A smart home entry is built for gigabit broadband connections to achieve business monetization in home connection scenarios.

The upgrade of home networks and emergence of new services such as live streaming at home pose new requirements on gigabit broadband. Coupled with gigabit broadband, new services can provide users with diversified experiences, create new home network business models for operators, and enable connection monetization. Simon Lin introduced three ways to monetize home network connections:

  • Gigabit to Home: Fast and large-scale deployment of optical fibers lays the foundation for operators to build a positive business cycle. Deploying optical fibers on a large scale can effectively reduce the cost per line and enable operators to launch gigabit services with higher average revenue per user (ARPU).
  • Gigabit to Room: Huawei’s fiber to the room (FTTR) all-optical solution effectively addresses the challenge that only 100 Mbps bandwidth is available upon the subscription of gigabit to home, ensuring gigabit connections in each room. This solution also provides remote home network configuration and O&M capabilities to reduce operators’ maintenance costs by more than 50%. Good network and service experiences can ensure operators’ solution sales at a premium rate.
  • Gigabit + Services: Operators can combine gigabit home networks with new services, such as providing scenario-specific broadband services, binding Internet services, and binding smart home device services. In this way, each new service can increase the ARPU of broadband services. Currently, operators have just begun to put into practice and expand new services based on optical fiber home networks, and the potential for further exploration in the future is limitless.

Enterprise setting: A connection entry is built for the digital transformation of enterprises to monetize their private lines and networks.

The digital transformation of traditional industries calls for connectivity upgrades. A variety of industries have different requirements for connectivity, driving operators to provide diverse enterprise network connection solutions. Currently, more and more enterprise services are migrating to the cloud, allowing operators to expand their business space. Simon Lin noted that operators can monetize enterprise-oriented connections in three ways:

  • Bandwidth upgrade for private line services: Enterprise private lines are a high-value market for operators and can be used for covering campus networks and enterprise data center networks. The private line bandwidth is upgraded from Gbps to 10 Gbps to offer high-quality connections in and out of campuses and data centers.
  • Scenario-specific differentiated solutions: Enterprises’ digital transformation requires diverse network connection services. Operators can provide scenario-specific private lines to increase revenues. For example, they can provide ultra-high-bandwidth private lines for the media industry, and millisecond-level low-latency private lines as well as security cloud services for securities companies.
  • Upgrade from private lines to private networks: As many enterprise branches need to access multiple clouds, N x N private lines are required. Operators can use multi-cloud backbone and network slicing technologies to upgrade private lines to private networks, providing deterministic network assurance for enterprises.

Green solution: All-optical, simplified, and intelligent green networks enable the green development of various industries.

According to Simon Lin, Huawei is cooperating with operators to help the International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) formulate standards and jointly define the network carbon intensity energy (NCIe) indicator system. 

“A sculpture lies hidden within a marble block, but only the greatest artist can set it free,” said Simon Lin, pointing out that operators have inherent network advantages in connectivity and will bring unlimited interconnection value to the world if their connectivity capabilities are fully unleashed. He also stated that Huawei will continue to explore connectivity technologies and solutions with customers and partners, and work with operators to promote business growth.

Frost & Sullivan Institute Recognizes Industry Leaders with Enlightened Growth Leadership Awards for 2022

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Frost & Sullivan Institute’s Enlightened Growth Leadership Best Practices Recognition honors companies that are driven and committed to their pursuit of excellence, while ensuring a healthy balance between growth and sustainability. The Institute bestows this prestigious recognition on companies that have demonstrated excellence in growth and have proactively taken initiative, both internally and externally to address key global priorities.

The Frost & Sullivan Institute's Enlightened Growth Leadership Best Practices Recognition honors companies that are driven and committed to their pursuit of excellence, while ensuring a healthy balance between growth and sustainability.
The Frost & Sullivan Institute’s Enlightened Growth Leadership Best Practices Recognition honors companies that are driven and committed to their pursuit of excellence, while ensuring a healthy balance between growth and sustainability.

“At Frost & Sullivan Institute, we believe that transformation truly arises from responsible decision making. This recognition is significant in terms of reiterating an organization’s commitment to growth with a moral imperative and to delivering value to its stakeholders, including its employees, investors, and customers,” said Prerna Mohan, Director, Frost & Sullivan Institute.

Frost & Sullivan Institute follows its proprietary, 8 step, measurement-based methodology, combined with extensive research, in-depth analyses, and benchmarking, to shortlist recipients. Being one of the few existing methodologies that equally weights growth and Environment, Social, Governance (ESG), this recognition is one of the Institute’s most prestigious best practices recognitions. The winners represent the best of the best.

Frost & Sullivan Institute congratulates all recipients of the Enlightened Growth Leadership Best Practices Recognition. As we did last year, we will recognize and celebrate the 2022 recipients at our Virtual Awards Banquet in November.

Recipients:

Cellnex

Computacenter

ContourGlobal

ACCIONA Energía

Crayon

Croda International

Dassault Aviation

Dassault Systèmes

Deliveroo

Delivery Hero

Dermapharm Group

Deutsche Telekom

DiaSorin/ DiaSorin Group

Drax Group

E.ON

Eevia Health Plc

Efecte Plc

Einhell Germany AG

Elia group

Elmera Group ASA

ElvalHalcor

Embracer Group

EnBW

Endeavour Mining

EssilorLuxottica

Eurofins Scientific

Fluidra

Fortum Corporation

Garmin Ltd.

Genmab A/S 

Gränges

Grupa Azoty S.A.

Grupa Kety S.A. 

Harbour Energy plc

Hera S.p.A.

ICON plc

Infineon Technologies AG

Instalco

Interpump Group

Ipsen S.A.

Iren S.p.A.

James Hardie Industries plc

Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc

Kingspan Group plc

Lifco AB

Linde 

Logitech International

Medicover AB 

Medios AG 

MercadoLibre, Inc. 

Metso Outotec

Micro Focus

Midwich

MYTILINEOS SA

NIBE Industrier AB

Nolato AB

Nordex SE

OMV

PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A.

Picanol Group

About Frost & Sullivan Institute

The Frost & Sullivan Institute (FSI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to utilizing business practices to address global priorities. The genesis of the institute goes back to the vision of either creating, or becoming part of, a solution that addresses threats to humanity. The Institute has identified strategic imperatives for transformation and believes that we can truly accelerate innovation to zero. To learn more about FSI, visit www.frostandsullivaninstitute.org

About Frost & Sullivan

For six decades, Frost & Sullivan has been world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders, and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models, and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success.

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Nippon Express (China) Recognized among “Top 50 Chinese Logistics Companies for 2022”

TOKYO, Sept. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Nippon Express (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “NX China”), a group company of NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS, INC., was designated one of the “Top 50 Chinese Logistics Companies for 2022,” the only Japanese company to be so honored, at the 15th National Modern Logistics Technology Innovation Conference jointly hosted by the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing and the Harbin Municipal People’s Government in Harbin, China, on August 24, 2022.

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Photo1: General Manager Tie Weihua, Business Support Division, NX China (second from right)
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The “Top 50 Chinese Logistics Companies for 2022,” selected from among tens of thousands of Chinese and foreign logistics companies in China based on logistics revenue statistics from 2021, were announced at the National Modern Logistics Technology Innovation Conference, a major event held annually by the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing since 2005. NX China’s inclusion among the Top 50 can be credited to such management benchmarks as sales, company size, growth potential and profitability.

The Nippon Express Group will continue helping customers develop their business activities by offering international transport services utilizing its global network and further expanding its logistics functions within China to realize the Long-term Vision set out in its Business Plan of becoming “a logistics company with a strong presence in the global market.”

Nippon Express website: https://www.nipponexpress.com/

Nippon Express Group’s official LinkedIn account:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/nippon-express-group/

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Next.e.GO Mobile brings its sports model to the Goodwood Festival of Speed

  • e.GO celebrates the future of electric mobility at the Electric Avenue in Goodwood
  • The cooperation resonates with e.GO’s motto: “electric cars: fun without regret

AACHEN, Germany, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The independent German electric car manufacturer Next.e.GO Mobile SE is presenting its Sport Life at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (June 22-26, UK), one of the greatest celebrations of the world’s energizing sports. e.GO is located at the Festival’s Electric Avenue, at the confluence of the future of mobility and electrification.

e.GO at Goodwood Festival
e.GO at Goodwood Festival

“We are delighted to be here at the Goodwood Electric Avenue together with other established automotive brands, shaping and accelerating the future of electro mobility. This perfectly resonates with our vision at e.GO to offer our customers fun without regret”, says Ali Vezvaei, Chairman of the Board of Next.e.GO Mobile SE.

The e.GO Sports Life takes the driving performance to another level. In tight bends it feels like driving a much larger performance vehicle with increasing G-force: fast, sportive and comfortable at the same time. With larger wheels, a wider track and a lower centre of gravity the Life Sport takes great advantage of its rear-wheel drive and high torque powertrain. The design lines have been further intensified to underline its dynamic and powerful appearance by improving the aerodynamics at the same time.

The Electric Avenue of the Goodwood Festival of Speed offers visitors the opportunity to experience the sports version of e.GO and to reserve directly the newly launched e.wave X.  

IBM, DELTA AIR LINES WPP, 4A’S, IAB, AD COUNCIL AND OTHER INDUSTRY LEADERS ACT TO MITIGATE BIAS IN ADVERTISING TECHNOLOGY


IBM Delivers Open Source Toolkit to Identify and Mitigate Bias in Advertising Technology

CANNES, France, June 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Today, leading companies committed to improving fairness in marketing campaigns. The initiative, announced at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2022, brought together agencies, brands, and other leaders to generate awareness and take action towards mitigating bias in advertising technology. Committing organizations include IBM (NYSE: IBM), Delta Air Lines, WPP, Mindshare, 4A’s, IAB and the Ad Council.

The action is the most recent effort by IBM to drive education and awareness around the impact of bias in advertising technology. In 2021, the company launched a research initiative to explore the hypothesis that bias can exist in ad technology, which initial findings confirmed. The research also showed that mitigating bias in ad technology was possible using AI tools and resources in marketing processes. More industry participation and data collection are needed to better understand the potential impact of bias on these campaigns, but several industry leaders are demonstrating early activism by raising awareness and taking action via IBM’s Advertising Fairness Pledge.

“While the risk of bias in advertising is well known, by making this commitment, these organizations are among the first in the industry to take action,” said Bob Lord, IBM Senior Vice President of The Weather Company and Alliances. “Together, we are agreeing to educate ourselves and our companies and ask other industry leaders to join us in helping to mitigate bias in advertising.”

Toward that effort, IBM also announced the release of its gratis Advertising Toolkit for AI Fairness 360, an open-source solution deploying 75 fairness metrics and 13 state-of-the-art algorithms to help identify and mitigate biases in discrete data sets. A playbook and sample code are also made available for ease of use. Organizations utilizing the toolkit may gain a better understanding of the presence and impact of bias on their ad campaigns, as well as the makeup of their audiences.

“Used correctly, data can help brands personalize consumer engagement and identify the most relevant touchpoints. However, we know that bias can exist in algorithms or technology, and that’s why we’re helping our clients to evaluate how and when to use data in a meaningful way that will benefit the customer experience,” said Mark Read, CEO of WPP. “Through WPP’s GroupM, we’ve developed the Data Ethics Compass to help clients navigate the challenges of using datasets, while IBM’s new Advertising Toolkit for AI Fairness 360 will help us to better understand the potential impact of bias. Consumers rightly expect brands to use their information in a fair way and for the industry to tackle data bias collectively, which can ultimately result in increased engagement and commercial outcomes.”

Bias is often unintentional, a result of human assumptions and judgments encoded into algorithms that can result in unfair targeting, exclusion of certain groups, and marketing campaign failures. Organizations taking the pledge can contribute data to ongoing studies that seek to better explain the impact of bias. According to Salesforce’s 2022 State of the Connected Customer survey, nearly 62 percent of consumers surveyed reported they are concerned about bias in AI, up from just 54 percent two years prior, emphasizing the imperative for brands and agencies to better understand its impacts.

“As technology and data prevalence accelerates, the risk for bias in advertising compounds. It is our duty to address this head-on,” said Adam Gerhart, Global CEO of Mindshare. “We believe the industry needs to take clear and intentional action, which is why we are committing to leverage the Advertising Toolkit for AI Fairness 360.”

As the advertising industry continues to face issues related to privacy and transparency, many organizations believe that tackling bias in ad tech could be a next key area of focus for marketers. Nearly $1 trillion was spent on digital advertising globally in 2021, much of which flows through programmatic engines that segment and target specific audiences, sometimes missing large consumer groups in the process. With increasing consumer demand for transparency in how their data is used, marketers must look for new ways to remain effective. Tapping into alternative privacy-forward data sources, such as weather data, can be effective predictors of behavior that could also help rebuild trust with consumers.

“As a global brand, we know that every decision we make, whether it’s about a supplier, an employee or an ad campaign, is a reflection of our values and the change we want to see in the world,” said Emmakate Young, Delta’s Managing Director of Brand Marketing. “We’ve long been focused on inclusive representation in our campaign creative, this effort allows us to go a step further to bring more inclusive representation to our campaign delivery.”

To download the Advertising Toolkit for AI Fairness 360 and the associated playbook, to take the Advertising Fairness Pledge, and to learn more about how bias in advertising can negatively impact businesses and consumers, visit IBM’s Bias in Advertising microsite.

To learn more about IBM Watson Advertising solutions and services, visit here.

Statements regarding IBM’s future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice and represent goals and objectives only.

About IBM
IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider, helping clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly and efficiently. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. Visit www.ibm.com for more information.

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luca.sesti@ibm.com

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Bridging Technology and Education: UNESCO and Huawei Deliver Campus UNESCO for Young People in 20 countries

SHENZHEN, China, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — UNESCO and Huawei have to date run ten Campus UNESCO sessions, focusing on technology and education and reaching students from 39 schools in 21 countries.

Campus UNESCO is an ongoing program that gives young people aged 14 to 18 the chance to share views with experts from UNESCO and civil society. The topics discussed in each 90-minute session in either English or French are linked to major UNESCO themes such as education, artificial intelligence, sustainable development, gender equality, and citizenship.

One of the campus real-time screenshot
One of the campus real-time screenshot

Huawei has been partnering with UNESCO on the program since June 2021. The sessions have covered a wide variety of topics, including the relationship between technology and education, new technologies for today and tomorrow, and how technology can be used for good. Topics relevant to current issues that rose on the global agenda when the pandemic closed school doors in 2020 were especially welcomed by the students, including the changes brought to schools that either have or lack technology, and the necessity of physical schools when everything can be found on the Internet.

“We believe the SDG and COVID challenges are incredible ingredients for innovation,” said Dr. Valtencir Mendes, Senior Programme Specialist, UNESCO at one of the campuses.

Other issues of focus during campus sessions have been the value of digital skills and new behaviors to prevent cyberbullying, a threat that is on the rise for many teenagers in an increasingly digital world where social media is prevalent and when young people are outside the classroom.

Sharing their experiences and views with expert speakers can raise awareness among young people, not just about how new technologies will impact today and tomorrow, but the role that today’s teenagers can have in shaping the future.

The campus in French language real-time screenshot
The campus in French language real-time screenshot

As well as UNESCO experts, other speakers include inspirational people from the organization’s networks, such as NGOs, IGOs, startups, spanning a wide range of roles, including scientists, researchers, and local development project managers.

Aligned with the aims of Campus UNESCO, Huawei and UNESCO are also partnering on the “Technology-enabled Open Schools for All” project, the implementation phase of which was launched in 2021 in Ghana, Egypt, and Ethiopia. The three-year project is supporting the construction of resilient education systems that can withstand global disruptions such as COVID-19. In addition to connecting schools, the project is providing training for teachers and students in the use of digital tools, establishing online platforms to link school and home learning, and developing digital curricula that can be accessed remotely.

The “Technology-enabled Open Schools for All” project is aligned with the Tech4Education domain of Huawei’s digital inclusion initiative TECH4ALL, which aims to drive education equity and quality with technology under the major aim of TECH4ALL: to leave no one behind in the digital world.

View the series on the Huawei TECH4ALL official website:

https://www.huawei.com/en/tech4all/stories/bridging-technology-education-campus-unesco

HOME+ Supports Hong Kong Jockey Club Food Assistance Programme – E-Food Bank Service


Online Grocery Shopping & Home Delivery

HONG KONG, March 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The fifth wave of the pandemic has brought tremendous challenges to families and individuals of the transitional poor. To respond in times of uncertainty, e-shopping platform HOMEPLUS (“HOME+”) is pleased to be a CSR Partner of the “Jockey Club Food Assistance Programme” initiated and funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, coordinated by St. James’ Settlement and five other major non-profit organisations. Under its E-Food Bank Service, HOME+ will provide eligible individuals and families with an e-platform so that they can stay home safely and order nutritious food online. A credit equivalent to HK$400 will be provided to the account of each eligible individual each week, which can be spent on the e-platform. In order to minimise the risk of viral transmission, items ordered via HOME+ will be delivered to the doorstep.

June Lam, CEO of HOME+ said, “We are honoured to participate in this project and provide eligible individuals and families with food supplies via our convenient e-shopping services amid COVID. We have been exploring strategic collaborations with various NGO partners to leverage the HOME+ platform and deliver a wide range of food to people in need while they stay safe at home during the pandemic and not have to panic over the supply of food and daily necessities.”

About HOME+

HOMEPLUS (“HOME+”) + is an online shopping platform supported by industry leaders – Hong Kong Broadband Network, Dah Chong Hong and Kerry Logistics. With “Always Deliver More” as the brand concept, HOME+ brings “more” special offers, “more” bespoke service, “more” specialized service and “more” flexible cooperation model to create a win-win shopping experience for customers and merchants by providing a wide range of quality products covering wholesome foods, in-the-trend appliances, health supplements, personal care goods, and many more. Shop now at: home-plus.hk