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Dattel to Uplift 10,000 Businesses in Malaysia with RM 50 Million Data Fund

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PETALING JAYA, Malaysia, Nov. 25, 2020 — Dattel Asia Group, a leading consumer data & analytics company in ASEAN, has recently launched UPLIFT Malaysia – an initiative to empower 10,000 businesses with actionable insights on the latest consumer behaviour through a RM 50 million data fund. This initiative aims to help individuals who have lost job or businesses that are being impacted by the recent economic downturn to recuperate sustainably.

We aspire to uplift 10,000 companies and nurture business communities that are more #celikdata in the country. For you to have a competitive edge in business, you need a reliable source of data that continuously gives you new perspectives of the market. Ashran Dato’ Ghazi Chief Executive Officer, Dattel Asia
We aspire to uplift 10,000 companies and nurture business communities that are more #celikdata in the country. For you to have a competitive edge in business, you need a reliable source of data that continuously gives you new perspectives of the market. Ashran Dato’ Ghazi Chief Executive Officer, Dattel Asia

One of the inspirations for UPLIFT was when the CEO of Dattel Asia, Ashran Dato’ Ghazi, met many entrepreneurs struggling with the abrupt shift in consumers’ behaviour due to COVID-19 outbreak. The behavioural shifts caused many consumer-facing businesses uncertain about how, or even if, they should respond to the changes. With so many changes happening at an unprecedented rate, companies do not have the necessary insights that are up-to-date and comprehensive for them to pivot their business or marketing strategy.

To address this, Dattel Asia has partnered with several powerhouses in the industry to launch UPLIFT Malaysia. The primary goal of this initiative is to ensure that businesses in Malaysia have the necessary access to accurate data which are usually made available only to large companies. 

Among the industry players that have joined forces with Dattel Asia for UPLIFT Malaysia are BAC Education Group, Transcosmos Malaysia and ZBRA Business Research & Analytics. Also, UPLIFT has gained the support of Institut Keusahawanan Negara (INSKEN), Owners Circle and Kementerian Pembangunan Usahawan dan Koperasi (MEDAC). Dattel Asia hopes more industry players will come forward and contribute to the initiative.

Applications for UPLIFT data fund are open to any individuals or companies, especially those interested in consumer-facing business such as retail, fashion, F&B, fitness, beauty, health or snacks. Upon review, successful applicants will receive access to consumer data & training package worth RM 5,000 and weekly updates on consumers’ COVID-19 sentiment and behaviours.

The access to the consumer data & training package is only limited to the first 10,000 eligible applicants. Those who are interested can visit the UPLIFT Malaysia webpage at upliftmy.dattel.asia for more details and apply for the data fund now.

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LONGi joined EV100 and EP100 Initiative to continue to Inject “Green Power” into Climate Action!

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Abstract: LONGi became the first Chinese company to join the RE100&EV00&EP100 initiatives, becoming the flagship of China’s climate action

SHANGHAI, Nov. 9, 2020 — On November 7, the grand occasion of the 3rd China International Import Expo (hereinafter referred to as "CIIE") was still in full swing. At the UK Pavilion, LONGi’s founder and president Li Zhenguo announced "Net Zero carbon Photovoltaic, created by LONGi" keynote speech, and announced that LONGi officially joined the "EV100" and "EP100" initiatives by the Climate Group. This is another feat in continuing to promote climate action after LONGi joined the RE100 initiative.

"We joined EV100 and are committed to laying appropriate chargers in all of our premises over the next decade to guide more than 50,000 employees around the world in converting their cars to EVs." Mr.Li Zhenguo said, "At the same time, we are anchoring the EP100’s development goals and are committed to installing Energy Management Systems in all of LONGi’s production and operation sites, the goal is to commit to a ten-year effort to achieve a 35% increase in energy productivity by 2025." Li Zhenguo also said "LONGi will continue to focus on global climate change and energy transformation, continuously reduce corporate greenhouse gas emissions, and achieve economic benefits and environmental protection goals."

Helen Clarkson, CEO of the Climate Group, expressed her congratulations to LONGi via video: "We are delighted to see LONGi become the first Chinese business to join all three of our business campaigns – on clean energy, clean transport and energy efficiency. They are showcasing the next steps for ambitious businesses in China."

Reducing emissions over the next decades will be crucial to achieving not just their own Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) but also the global target of 2C set under the Paris Agreement of 2015.

LONGi will uphold the vision of "Utilizing solar energy, Building a green world", by setting strategic goals, paying close attention to carbon emissions in the production and operation process, while sharing energy-saving, carbon emission reduction and new energy technology development experience to create a better living environment for mankind and inject "green power" into the sustainable development of the world.

Background:

EV100 is a global initiative led by international non-profit the Climate Group, which brings together companies committed to making electric transport the new normal by 2030. Over half of all new vehicles on the road go into company fleets, so it’s crucial that businesses lead the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) through their investment decisions and influence on millions of staff and customers worldwide.

EP100 is a global initiative by international non-profit the Climate Group, bringing together a growing group of energy-smart companies committed to doing more with less to improve their energy productivity. Members are driving tech innovation and reducing emissions while making substantial cost savings and improving competitiveness – inspiring others to follow their lead.

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The Big Heart Foundation pledges over USD 1 million to education, vocational training and community empowerment in Pakistan

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Five humanitarian projects will be executed in partnership with international entities

– Projects carried out in seven cities include establishment of schools and computer and English language labs

– Women Welfare Development Centres to be upgraded and fully equipped

Mariam Al Hamadi: "The projects carried out by TBHF are aimed at supporting the efforts of civil organizations in Pakistan to enhance the lives of refugees and the marginalized groups"

SHARJAH, UAE, Oct. 29, 2020 — Under the directives of Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi, wife of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah, Chairperson of The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF), and Eminent Advocate for Refugee Children at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), TBHF, the global humanitarian charity dedicated to helping refugees and people in need worldwide, is implementing five humanitarian projects in Pakistan, in a bid to support their humanitarian efforts to create more opportunities in education and employment for the refugees and marginalized residing in the country.

HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi to Pakistan in February 2020
HH Sheikha Jawaher bint Mohammed Al Qasimi to Pakistan in February 2020

TBHF’s funding, which amounts to exceeding USD 1 million will be utilized to support the nation’s educational infrastructure enabling access to a larger number of children and youth, and improve vocational training in Pakistan, and will also focus on improving integration and youth employability, women’s skills development and community empowerment of refugees and others in need, and follows the directives of Sheikha Jawaher Al Qasimi post Her Highness’s visit to Pakistan this February to meet with several humanitarian organizations.

USD 580,000 SOS Girls and Boys High School in Rawalakot

Reinforcing its emphasis on the pivotal role of education as a primary enabler of secure futures for vulnerable children, TBHF has allocated USD 580,000 for the construction of an SOS Girls and Boys High School in Rawalakot, in partnership with SOS Children’s Villages Pakistan. The project seeks to bring high-quality education to children who are under the direct care of SOS Children’s Villages Pakistan, as well as underprivileged children in the wider community. Launched in September, the school is expected to be fully established by July 2022.

A special plaque, to acknowledge the meaningful contribution and support of The Big Heart Foundation for the welfare of children, will be affixed on the school grounds.

Establishment of computer labs and English language labs across SOS Youth Homes in Pakistan

In August, TBHF, in cooperation with SOS Children’s Villages Pakistan, launched a project to establish specialized computer training and English language labs in Sargodha, Sialkot and Muzaffarabad. Targeting 450 children and youth, the USD 80,584 project aims to support the youth in the care of SOS Children’s Villages Pakistan by equipping them with the necessary skills to secure jobs and fully integrate them into their communities as they reach adulthood.

USD 170,162 TCF-Sheikh Khalid Al Qasimi Campus in Lakhi Ghulam Shah, Shikarpur, Sindh

In June, TBHF mobilized funding of USD 170,162 for the construction of a primary school project in Lakhi Ghulam Shah, Shikarpur, in Pakistan’s Sindh province, in partnership with The Citizens Foundation (TCF).

The TCF-Sheikh Khalid Al Qasimi Campus project, named in memory of the Sharjah Ruler’s son, aims to provide high-quality formal education to 180 marginalized children per year, with a particular focus on girls’ education. When complete, the school will employ 9 female faculty members and five support staff, of which two will be women.

TBHF estimates that the indirect beneficiaries from this project would number around 1,260 per year, which aligns with the vision of the Pakistani educational laws, which stipulate the provision of free and compulsory education for children in the 5 – 16 age group, and the allocation of 10 per cent of seats in schools and private educational institutes for poor children.

In addition, TBHF has pledged monetary support to cover the running costs of the TCF-Sheikh Khalid Al Qasimi School for a period of five years on completion of the project.

Upgradation of women’s skills development centres in Pakistan

To support 1,500 Afghani refugee women as well as marginalized local women in Pakistan acquire advanced vocational and technical skills to improve their employability, TBHF, in cooperation with UNHCR, launched a project targeting the upgradation of equipment at the Women Welfare Development Centre in Islamabad and three similar community development centres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The USD 200,045 project, scheduled for completion in December 2021, will provide equipment for industrial tailoring, advanced beauty-therapy, and information technology, helping these women acquire advanced level vocational and technical skills in the crafts of dressmaking, tailoring, and jewellery design, in addition to receiving training in beautician and computer courses. Ultimately, the project seeks to build trainees’ self-reliance by improving their access to suitable livelihood development opportunities.

‘The Big Heart Foundation Community Centre’ to directly benefit more than 1,500 Afghan refugees

To promote the active engagement and participation of refugees in communities, TBHF has pledged USD 61,131 for a new community centre project in Haripur in cooperation with UNHCR.

Scheduled to be completed at the end of 2021, ‘The Big Heart Foundation’ centre will place special emphasis on the training of more than 1,500 Afghan refugees including youth, women, and adolescent girls in literacy courses, tailoring, business skills, as well as entrepreneurial and financial management skills to improve their livelihoods and make them economically independent.

In addition to empowering the refugee community with vocational skills including tailoring and embroidery, as well as mobile phone and computer repair, ‘The Big Heart Foundation’ centre will also raise community awareness on the risks associated with child marriage and child labour.

An additional 1,000 Afghan refugees including men, women, girls and boys, and those with special needs will also receive direct or indirect benefits from the training sessions and outreach activities organized by ‘The Big Heart Foundation’ community centre.

Mariam Al Hammadi: TBHF recognizes the importance of skilled human resources

Speaking on the side-lines of the implementation of the five projects, Mariam Al Hammadi, Director of TBHF, emphasized that the targeted educational and vocational projects carried out by TBHF are aimed at supporting the efforts of civil organizations in Pakistan to enhance the lives of refugees and the marginalized groups across the country. Ensuring better educational support and providing opportunities for learning and life skills development will economically empower beneficiaries to contribute to the developmental efforts of the host nation and support in the rebuilding efforts in their home countries upon their return, she added.

Mariam Al Hammadi said: "TBHF recognizes the importance of skilled human resources to build a strong, sustainable economy, and is committed to fulfilling its humanitarian responsibilities towards refugees and those in need around the world. We view our role as an integral part of the global community’s efforts to achieve the UN’s sustainable development goals through our focus on sustainable projects in education and community empowerment sectors."

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Clarivate Delivers Litigation Data from Darts-ip Through CPA Global Innography

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LONDON, Oct. 15, 2020 — Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CCC), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, announced today the integration of Darts-ip™ case law data with the Innography™ IP intelligence and analytics solution, to provide significantly enhanced strategic decision making across the IP lifecycle.


The integration follows the acquisition of CPA Global by Clarivate, and will see corporate IP departments and law firm customers benefit from multi-jurisdictional litigation data from 141 countries – covering millions of patent cases across 3,000 courts in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. The insights from big data analysis of more than 1.8 million patent cases will inform customers in their patent research, competitive intelligence, portfolio strategy, licensing, litigation, M&A due diligence, freedom to operate and more.

This is the third integration of Darts-ip into Clarivate products in under a year following the acquisition of the company:

  • In March 2020, Darts-ip global IP case data was integrated with CompuMark™. By adding trademark cases to the world’s largest trademark database, trademark professionals gained greater context for their most important decisions when building and protecting their trademark portfolio, including the litigiousness and history of a specific mark or owner across the full spectrum of trademark research solutions: screening, clearance and protection.
  • In July 2020, Darts-ip was integrated with Derwent Innovation™. The combined solution gave our customers greater context to support better, more confident decisions when building and protecting their IP portfolios. By integrating patent case data with Derwent Innovation, customers gained a more complete picture of potential obstacles with litigation history, allowing for easy assessment of immediate risks and opportunities, improved efficiency, accelerated decision making and reduced cost.
  • Now, Darts-ip has been integrated with Innography, connecting international litigation data and patent data with ultimate subsidiary and parent assignments to facilitate seamless analysis and provide a fuller picture across jurisdictions. The expanded offering will include enhanced definition of the industry renowned PatentStrength™ metric, to indicate the external strength of any asset in a portfolio, now updated to factor even more patent data from across the globe.

Jeff Roy, President, IP Group at Clarivate, said: "With all our acquisitions, including CPA Global and Darts-ip, it’s important for us to focus on immediately delivering value to our customers. This integration represents one of the most popular Innography requests from our customers. We’re listening, and we are hard at work helping our customers lower their total cost of doing business with customized packages and fully integrated solutions.  Today’s announcement is a terrific early indicator of how our customers will benefit from the combination of Clarivate and CPA Global, and we’re excited about what the future will bring."

"With the integration of Darts-ip into three Clarivate products in under a year following the acquisition of the company, we can now provide IP professionals with the opportunity to take a truly global deep dive into IP data, make smarter decisions faster and mitigate risks based on actionable intelligence. IP analysis plays a crucial role in strategic decision making and with these three integrations, customers will be better equipped to handle their next challenge, lower their total cost of doing business and seize new commercial opportunities."

About Clarivate
Clarivate™ is a global leader in providing solutions to accelerate the lifecycle of innovation. Our bold mission is to help customers solve some of the world’s most complex problems by providing actionable information and insights that reduce the time from new ideas to life-changing inventions. Covering scientific and academic research, pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare intelligence and intellectual property services, we help customers discover, protect and commercialize their inventions using our trusted subscription and technology-based solutions coupled with deep domain expertise. For more information, please visit clarivate.com.

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Winners Of The 2021 Breakthrough Prizes In Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics And Mathematics Announced

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A Total of $18.75 Million Awarded For Advances on the Deepest Questions

Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Awarded to David Baker, Catherine Dulac, Dennis Lo, Richard Youle

Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics Awarded to Martin Hairer

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to Eric Adelberger, Jens Gundlach, Blayne Heckel

Six New Horizons Prizes Awarded for Early-Career Achievements in Physics and Math

Three Inaugural Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes Awarded to Women Mathematicians for Early-Career Achievements – Number of Prizes Increased Due to Popular Interest

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10, 2020 — The Breakthrough Prize Foundation today announced the esteemed recipients of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize, recognizing a spectacular array of groundbreaking achievements in the Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics. Each year, the Prize is celebrated at a gala award ceremony, where the awards are presented by superstars of movies, music, sports and tech entrepreneurship. Due to the global pandemic, however, this year’s ceremony has been postponed until March 2021.

At a time when the importance of scientific achievement resounds around the world with more urgency than ever, the Breakthrough Prize continues its nine-year tradition of honoring the most profound and transformative discoveries, celebrating both established researchers (Breakthrough Prize) as well as early-career scientists (New Horizons Prize and – for the first time this year – Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize).

In total for this year, the Breakthrough Prize is awarding a collective $18.75 million in support of scientists working on the biggest and most fundamental questions. Science’s largest prize, the Breakthrough Prize has honored more researchers with monetary awards than any other science prize, with more than $250 million being awarded to almost 3000 leading scientists since 2012. The Prize is intended to help scientific leaders gain freedom from financial constraints to focus fully on the world of ideas; to raise the profile and prestige of basic science and mathematics, fomenting a culture in which intellectual pursuits are validated; and to inspire the next generation of researchers to follow the lead of these extraordinary scientific role models.

This year’s Breakthrough Prize winners form a diverse group. They’ve invented tools to unravel the protein folding problem and design entirely novel proteins (including some that could neutralize Covid-19); built exquisitely sensitive table-top instruments to probe the mysteries of dark energy and put Einstein’s theory to the test; developed noninvasive genetic fetal screening tests used by millions of prospective parents worldwide; mapped the neural pathways governing parenting behavior to the level of specific brain cells; revealed and elaborated a cellular pathway heavily implicated in hereditary Parkinson’s disease; and cracked equations describing random processes, from fluctuating stock prices to the motion of sugar in a cup of tea. Each Breakthrough Prize is worth $3 million.

Six New Horizons Prizes of $100,000 each were shared among twelve early-career scientists and mathematicians who have already made a substantial impact on their fields. And three inaugural Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes were awarded to early-career women mathematicians – the number of awards increased from one to three due to the intense interest generated by the Prize and the extremely high quality of nominations. The Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize was established in 2019 and named for the famed Iranian mathematician, Fields Medalist and Stanford professor who passed away in 2017. During her exceptionally prolific career, Mirzakhani made groundbreaking contributions to the theory of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces. Each year, the $50,000 New Frontiers Prize award is presented to women mathematicians who have completed their PhDs within the past two years.

Full citations can be found below.

2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences (4)

David Baker
University of Washington and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Citation: For developing technology that allowed the design of proteins never seen before in nature, including novel proteins that have the potential for therapeutic intervention in human diseases.

Catherine Dulac 
Harvard University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Citation: For deconstructing the complex behavior of parenting to the level of cell-types and their wiring, and demonstrating that the neural circuits governing both male and female-specific parenting behaviors are present in both sexes.

Yuk Ming Dennis Lo
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Citation: For discovering that fetal DNA is present in maternal blood and can be used for the prenatal testing of trisomy 21 and other genetic disorders.  

Richard J. Youle 
National Institutes of Health

Citation: For elucidating a quality control pathway that clears damaged mitochondria and thereby protects against Parkinson’s Disease.

2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (1)

Martin Hairer 
Imperial College London

Citation: For transformative contributions to the theory of stochastic analysis, particularly the theory of regularity structures in stochastic partial differential equations.

2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (1)

Eric Adelberger, Jens H. Gundlach and Blayne Heckel
University of Washington

Citation: For precision fundamental measurements that test our understanding of gravity, probe the nature of dark energy, and establish limits on couplings to dark matter.

2021 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize (3)

Bhargav Bhatt 
University of Michigan

Citation: For outstanding work in commutative algebra and arithmetic algebraic geometry, particularly on the development of p-adic cohomology theories.

Aleksandr Logunov
Princeton University

Citation: For novel techniques to study solutions to elliptic equations, and their application to long-standing problems in nodal geometry.

Song Sun 
University of California, Berkeley

Citation: For many groundbreaking contributions to complex differential geometry, including existence results for Kahler-Einstein metrics and connections with moduli questions and singularities.

2021 New Horizons in Physics Prize (3)

Tracy Slatyer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Citation: For major contributions to particle astrophysics, from models of dark matter to the discovery of the "Fermi Bubbles."

Rouven Essig 
Stony Brook University

Javier Tiffenberg 
Fermilab

Tomer Volansky 
Tel Aviv University

Tien-Tien Yu 
University of Oregon

Citation: For advances in the detection of sub-GeV dark matter especially in regards to the SENSEI experiment.

Ahmed Almheiri
Institute for Advanced Study

Netta Engelhardt 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Henry Maxfield 
University of California, Santa Barbara

Geoff Penington 
University of California, Berkeley

Citation: For calculating the quantum information content of a black hole and its radiation.

2021 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize (3)

Nina Holden 
ETH Zurich (PhD MIT 2018)

Citation: For work in random geometry, particularly on Liouville Quantum Gravity as a scaling limit of random triangulations.

Urmila Mahadev
Caltech (PhD University of California, Berkeley 2018)

Citation: For work that addresses the fundamental question of verifying the output of a quantum computation.

Lisa Piccirillo 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD University of Texas at Austin 2019)

Citation: For resolving the classic problem that the Conway knot is not smoothly slice.

About the Breakthrough Prize
For the ninth year the Breakthrough Prize, renowned as the "Oscars of Science," will recognize the world’s top scientists. Each prize is $3 million and presented in the fields of Life Sciences (up to four per year), Fundamental Physics (one per year) and Mathematics (one per year). In addition, up to three New Horizons in Physics Prizes, up to three New Horizons in Mathematics Prizes and up to three Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes are given out to early-career researchers each year. Laureates attend a gala award ceremony designed to celebrate their achievements and inspire the next generation of scientists. As part of the ceremony schedule, they also engage in a program of lectures and discussions.

The Breakthrough Prizes were founded by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki. The Prizes have been sponsored by the personal foundations established by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Ma Huateng, Jack Ma, Yuri and Julia Milner and Anne Wojcicki. Selection Committees composed of previous Breakthrough Prize laureates in each field choose the winners. Information on Breakthrough Prize is available at breakthroughprize.org.

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UL Advances Ability for Electronic Product and Equipment Manufacturers to Quickly Enter Mexico Market

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Mexico Ministry of Economy grants UL first mutual recognition agreement to allow electronics product testing outside of Mexico

NORTHBROOK, Illinois, Aug. 29, 2020 — UL, a leading global safety science company, today announced that Mexico’s Ministry of Economy, General Directorate of Standards (DGN), has granted UL the right to conduct safety and energy efficiency testing globally for electronic products and equipment imported into that country. These include safety tests for audio, video and information technology products and equipment and uninterruptible power systems (UPS) as well as energy efficiency tests for washing machines, household and commercial refrigerators and freezers, motors, lighting, external power supplies and products and equipment requiring stand-by power.

With the ability now to perform safety and energy efficiency tests at UL or UL-approved laboratories outside of Mexico, according to official Mexico standards, Norma Oficial Mexicana and Oficial Mexico Standard (NOM) and Mexican Standard (NMX), UL can help reduce time and cost to market for product access to the Mexican marketplace.

The safety test designation, a first for any international testing, inspection and certification company, applies to specific products and equipment as identified by the NOM and NMX categories. Product and equipment groups include:

  • NOM-001-SCFI-2018 – Electronic appliances
  • NMX-I-163-NYCE-2016 – Electronic equipment – uninterruptible power systems (UPS).
  • NMX-I-60065-NYCE-2015 – Electronic equipment – audio, video and similar electronic apparatus
  • NMX-I-60950-1-NYCE-2015 – Information technology equipment

According to The World Bank, Mexico – with a population of more than 130 million and a rise in income levels and spending power – has the 11th largest economy in the world and the second largest economy in Latin America.

"With Mexico’s rising growth comes a greater demand for more consumables, contributing to an increased need for additional regulatory safety and security oversight," said Carlos Correia, senior vice president and general manager of UL in Latin America. "With this designation from the DGN, UL is now able to meet that need by utilizing our global network of best-in-class laboratories and testing facilities to help electronic product and equipment manufacturers meet necessary Mexico safety and security requirements and pave the way for a swift and smooth Mexico market entry."

In addition to safety tests, the DGN has designated that UL can now perform energy efficiency testing, including requirements for Energy Star or the Canada Standards Association, at UL facilities outside of Mexico. Applicable NOM standards include:

  • NOM-005-ENER-2016 – household washing machines
  • NOM-014-ENER-2004 – air-cooled motors
  • NOM-015-ENER-2012 – household refrigerators and freezers
  • NOM-017-ENER/SCFI-2014 – commercial refrigeration appliances
  • NOM-029-ENER-2017- external power supplies
  • NOM-030-ENER-2016 – LEDs
  • NOM-032-ENER-2013 – equipment and appliances requiring standby power

"We know that navigating the regulatory landscape of global markets is a complex and challenging task. COVID-19 has added another layer of complexity. With this designation, customers can test their products and equipment closer to their production facilities and mitigate delays due to the pandemic," said Helena Wolf, senior director of UL’s International Certification division. "We stand ready to address global market access needs, with our experts and facilities throughout the world — to help ensure a streamlined Mexico market entry."

About UL

UL helps create a better world by applying science to solve safety, security and sustainability challenges. We empower trust by enabling the safe adoption of innovative new products and technologies. Everyone at UL shares a passion to make the world a safer place. All of our work, from independent research and standards development, to testing and certification, to providing analytical and digital solutions, helps improve global well-being. Businesses, industries, governments, regulatory authorities and the public put their trust in us so they can make smarter decisions. To learn more, visit UL.com. To learn more about our nonprofit activities, visit UL.org.

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Announcing World Food Travel Market

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New online marketplace revolutionizes the culinary travel trade business

LONDON, Aug. 4, 2020 — Today the World Food Travel Association (WFTA) announced the launch of World Food Travel Market, the world’s first and only business-to-business marketplace for the culinary travel industry.

World Food Travel Market is a secure platform that connects trade buyers and sellers of culinary travel products. Buyers can search for culinary tour operators, culinary tourist guides, culinary attractions and similar products and services, based on criteria like location, specific keywords, hours of operation and more. Sellers can showcase their full range of capabilities, their extensive digital content libraries, their own blog articles, and all of their social media links including TripAdvisor. Every member’s microsite is available in up to 100 languages, allowing members to easily discover each other and do business together, no matter where they are located.

The idea for World Food Travel Market came from members of the World Food Travel Association’s own community, who sought new and creative ways to connect in a marketplace focused specifically on the food and beverage tourism industry. "Our industry really needed a way to connect directly with other like professionals – in a way that was not previously available," said World Food Travel Market member Juan Jose Munozcano, owner of Madrid Experience, a food and wine tour operator in Spain. "The Market is exactly what I was looking for as a business owner."

"There has never been an easier way for the food and beverage tourism industry to connect and do business," said World Food Travel Market founder Erik Wolf. "And because World Food Travel Market exclusively serves the food and beverage tourism trade, members are not distracted by irrelevant content or businesses."

World Food Travel Market is the right tool at the right time in the current economic climate to help the world’s food and beverage travel trade companies to do business better. Businesses can get started today at WorldFoodTravelMarket.com.

World Food Travel Market was created by the World Food Travel Association, the world’s leading authority on food and beverage tourism.

ABOUT THE WORLD FOOD TRAVEL ASSOCIATION (WFTA)

The WFTA is a non-profit organisation that was founded in 2001 by its current executive director Erik Wolf. It is recognised as the world’s leading authority on food/ culinary/ gastronomy tourism. The WFTA’s mission is to preserve and promote culinary cultures through hospitality and travel. Every year, the organisation serves almost 200,000 professionals in 150+ countries. For more information, visit www.WorldFoodTravel.org.

Media Contact:  Erik Wolf (+44) 7827 582 554  help@worldfoodtravel.org

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WWF Announced Strategic Partnership with Kuaishou on Global Tiger Day to Protect Wild Tigers

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BEIJING, Aug. 1, 2020 — On July 29, Global Tiger Day, Tencent-backed Chinese short-video platform Kuaishou and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), co-launched a charity livestream event for wild tiger protection. Themed "Intangible Cultural Heritage, Guard the Return of the King", the two-hour livestream session received nearly 10 million views.

The livestreaming session showcases the making of 30 forms of tiger theme artworks with different traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage techniques.

 "This charity event creatively combines endangered wild tiger and intangible cultural heritages, both of which are facing the issue of inheritance and sustainable development," said Liu Peiqi, Director of WWF China Northeast China Project. "We are happy to join hands with a powerful platform like Kuaishou and find that more people are aware of the protection of wild Siberian tigers and even the global wild tigers," added Liu.

"In traditional Chinese culture, the tiger is considered the king of all beasts, symbolizing power, justice, and protection," explained Qi Hang, regional cooperation director of Kuaishou. "As tigers are experiencing unprecedented threats due to illegal trade in tiger parts, we team up with WWF and intangible cultural heritage craftsmen, calling on the public to protect the natural environment and refuse consumption of tiger products." 

Shadow play "The Return of the King" created by Wei Zongfu, Inheritor of Huan County Taoism Shadow Puppet Play
Shadow play "The Return of the King" created by Wei Zongfu, Inheritor of Huan County Taoism Shadow Puppet Play

 

Sugar painting tiger created by Wei Shengguo, inheritor of Sugar Painting technique
Sugar painting tiger created by Wei Shengguo, inheritor of Sugar Painting technique

During the live-streaming, WWF introduced how illegal trade in tiger parts threatens the wild tiger population, and reiterate its commitment to protecting the species in the coming years. 

WWF’s philosophy and commitment received wide popularity on the Kuaishou platform that it wins over 54,000 followers within three days since joining.

About World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

WWF, founded in 1961 and headquartered in Gland, Switzerland, is one of the world’s largest and most respected conservation organizations, aiming to build a future in which humans can live in harmony with nature. WWF officially joined Kuaishou on July 28. Through charity events co-launched with Kuaishou, WWF aims to increase public awareness of wild tiger protection.

About Kuaishou Technology

Kuaishou Technology develops content sharing platforms and makes content production, distribution and consumption fast and easy. Our content recommendation system is built on a deep understanding of our users and the content being shared on our platforms every day.

Our flagship product, Kuaishou, is China’s leading short video-sharing and social networking platform that enables users to capture the unique and memorable moments of their everyday lives and to interact with followers in real-time. Our technology offers users a highly personalized experience and encourages members from all communities to create and discover exciting and dynamic content.

Founded in 2011, Kuaishou Technology is headquartered in Beijing, with more than 10,000 employees and offices in China, the United States, India and Brazil. Our notable investors include DCM Ventures, Morningside Venture Capital, Sequoia Capital, Temasek Holdings, Tencent and Baidu. For more information, please visit www.kuaishou.com.

  • March 2011 GIF Kuaishou was created as a tool for creating animated GIFs
  • October 2013 GIF Kuaishou was transformed into a short-form video social platform – Kuaishou
  • January 2015 Kuaishou’s DAU (daily active user) exceeded 10 million
  • September 2017 Kuaishou’s total users exceeded 600 million while DAU exceeded 80 million
  • December 2017 Kuaishou’s DAU exceeded 100 million
  • June 2018 Kuaishou Technology completed the acquisition of Acfun, an ACG video community
  • May 2019 Kuaishou’s DAU exceeded 200 million
  • March 2020 Kuaishou’s DAU exceeded 300 million
  • July 2020 Kuaishou’s Livestream DAU surpassed 170 million

To download Kuaishou, click here.

CONTACT:

Zhang Chuanshi
zhangchuanshi@kuaishou.com
+86-134-8881-8382

 

 

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KIIT Deemed to be University Announces Free Education for Children of COVID Deceased in Odisha

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BHUBANESWAR, India, July 27, 2020 — The COVID-19 pandemic has infected millions and caused much panic across the globe, including India and Odisha. The number of new coronavirus infections is increasing by day in Odisha. Many have also lost their lives. KIIT has always reached out to the distressed people at the time of natural calamities in the state. It has become the pride of Odisha as it has always stood by the people of the state at the time of their need. 

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Deemed to be University
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Deemed to be University

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted and devastated normal life and livelihoods of the people of Odisha. Now, KIIT Deemed to be University has extended a helping hand to the families of the COVID deceased. Acting on a proposal by the Founder of KIIT & KISS, Dr. Achyuta Samanta, KIIT-DU has decided to provide technical and professional education absolutely free of cost to the children of the COVID deceased in Odisha.

Sons and daughters of the COVID deceased in Odisha, who are interested, can apply to different technical and professional courses of KIIT-DU, including ITI and Diploma Engineering, as per their eligibility for admission. This facility will be available for two academic years, 2020-21 and 2021-22 only, informed KIIT authorities. Preference will be given to the children of COVID deceased from BPL, SC, ST and SEBC categories. The move will provide relief to the people of Odisha who have been made helpless by the pandemic.

KIIT is the only university in India and abroad to extend such humanitarian gesture to the families of the COVID deceased.

Besides this benign initiative, KIIT Deemed to be University has been running four standalone COVID Hospitals in Odisha with 1200 bed capacity and over 200 critical care units for the last five months. KIIT is also at the frontline of the state’s war against coronavirus by contributing in the fields of food and medical supplies provision to the needy, reaching the unreached, creating awareness and animal care since the beginning of the lockdown.

Media Contact:
Dr. Shradhanjali Nayak
shradhanjali@kiit.ac.in
+91-674-2725636
Director, PR
KIIT Deemed to be University 

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Mexico Telecommunication Giant, Alestra, Deploys Bright Pattern Contact Center Software for CENACED’s Telehealth Services During COVID-19

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Alestra, deploys Bright Pattern Contact Center for nonprofit, CENACED, to offer remote psychological teleassistance services during the pandemic

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 15, 2020 — CENACED, a non-profit healthcare organization, has deployed Bright Pattern as their cloud-based contact center software provider amid the COVID-19 pandemic. CENACED uses Bright Pattern to offer free telehealth services to help citizens in Mexico dealing with stress during the quarantine. They have also moved agents and counselors to a remote model to protect the safety of their employees during the pandemic.

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A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the pandemic has negatively affected the mental health of 56 percent of adults. In April, texts to a US federal emergency mental-health line were up 1,000 percent from the year before. The situation is particularly dire for certain vulnerable groups—health-care workers, COVID-19 patients with severe cases, and people who have lost loved ones. CENACED is working with Bright Pattern, Alestra, and Bright Pattern partner, Call It Once, to bring telehealth counseling services to impacted people in Mexico to help people deal with the current health crisis.

CENACED offers free psychological telecare to people who have symptoms of stress derived from quarantine and with Bright Pattern’s virtual call center technology are now handling 120 cases per hour and serving almost 50,000 people per month. Alestra, Bright Pattern, and Call It Once joined CENACED in this critical initiative, enabling a teleassistance contact center in the cloud as shown in this video showing the solution in action. Per CENACED this cloud contact center was deployed in “record time” and is “a technology initiative that changes lives”:

“Bright Pattern has helped global companies during the pandemic by providing a 100% virtual platform allowing customers to seamlessly transition to remote teams,” said Michael McCloskey, CEO of Bright Pattern. “Countries in both Asia and Europe have also used Bright Pattern to help with COVID contact tracing but this is the first Bright Pattern powered contact center that is helping offer telehealth services during the pandemic as well.”

“Today, the world is facing challenging times. People and companies are taking the lead in collaborating in a more personalized way leveraging innovative technology,” said Ana Llano, Regional Manager, Latin America, Bright Pattern. “With our help, CENACED was able to deploy a hybrid contact center with onsite and remote agents quickly thanks to the ease-of-use of the Bright Pattern platform. Agents were ready to provide personalized virtual counseling services and psychological teleassistance to Mexican citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. At Bright Pattern, we are proud to collaborate with our partners and help CENACED with this innovative use of technology focused on helping people and keeping agents safe at home.”

Bright Pattern Virtual Call Center
Bright Pattern’s cloud-based virtual call center solution for remote agents delivers all of the benefits of a traditional contact center solution while providing the additional benefits of the flexibility gained through the use of remote workers. Our virtual contact center software solution allows your organization to “flex” during peak or low times, recruit talent from any geography, and deliver a complete omnichannel customer experience. In addition, Bright Pattern provides a powerful omnichannel quality management solution that allows you to score 100% of all customer interactions and manage agent performance to better manage remote workers. This combination of advanced omnichannel virtual contact center software with embedded quality management makes Bright Pattern the clear choice for delivering the best customer and agent experience.

Bright Pattern Cloud Contact Center Features:

  • Business Continuity – Keep your business going no matter what interruptions local offices or business settings face. Bright Pattern has a robust system designed to ensure uninterrupted continuity in the case of a local disaster or facility interruption.
  • Scalability – Bright Pattern cloud call center software allows you to easily supplement your existing workforce with additional remote agents in minimal time.
  • Deploy in Days – Bright Pattern was rated by G2 Crowd for quickest time to deploy out of all CCaaS vendors in the industry with the highest ROI and ROI payback time. Bright Pattern Cloud Contact Center can be deployed in days instead of the weeks it takes most CCaaS vendors.
  • Geographic flexibility – allow agents to access the exact same information that they would typically access in their offices from anywhere with a stable internet connection.
  • Maintain voice quality across geographies – Bright Pattern’s Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) software routes callers to the optimal agent.
  • Built in Quality Assurance – Monitor 100% of interactions regardless of channel with AI-powered quality management with sentiment and speech analytics for automated quality assurance in real-time across the globe.
  • Data Privacy – Fully compliant with international regulations including PCI DSS, HIPAA, DGPR, TCPA, and SOC.

If you are experiencing a spike in calls as a result of the outbreak or need to deploy a remote workforce, Bright Pattern is prepared to deliver consultations and cloud services to existing and new customers. Please contact us at marketing@brightpattern.com, call 925-548-0532, or request a demo.

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About Bright Pattern
Bright Pattern provides the simplest and most powerful AI-powered omnichannel contact center software for innovative midsize and enterprise companies. With the purpose of making customer service brighter, easier, and faster than ever before, Bright Pattern offers the only true omnichannel cloud platform with embedded AI that can be deployed quickly and nimbly by business users—without costly professional services. Bright Pattern allows companies to offer an effortless and personal customer experience across channels like voice, text, chat, email, video, messengers, and bots. Bright Pattern also allows companies to measure and act on every interaction on every channel via embedded AI omnichannel quality management. The company was founded by a team of industry veterans who pioneered the leading contact center solutions and today are delivering an architecture for the future with an advanced cloud-first approach. Bright Pattern’s cloud contact center solution is used globally in over 26 countries and 12 languages.

About Alestra
Alestra is a Mexican IT Services company headquartered in San Pedro Garza García, in Greater Monterrey, Mexico.It is a subsidiary of the Mexican conglomerate Alfa and provides IT solutions for the corporate sector in Mexico. Alestra reported revenues of $415 million for 2014.

About CENACED
CENACED is a non-profit, plural, autonomous, and inclusive civil society organization, with no political or religious aims and always open to anyone who wants to join efforts to improve the living conditions of the population in vulnerable conditions. CENACED is dedicated to  promoting and strengthening a greater culture of prevention, health self-care, and self-protection in cases of disasters and epidemiological contingencies.

About Call IT Once
Call IT Once is made up of highly experienced professionals for contact center management and the continuous improvement of contact center processes and strategies.

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