The Digital School, one of Mohammed bin Rashid\u2019s global initiatives, in cooperation with the Emirates Red Crescent Authority, launched the \u201cDonate Your Device\u201d campaign under the slogan Donate to Learn, and aims to provide 10,000 used electronic devices that will be renewed and recycled after collecting them from individual donors and institutions, in an initiative Educational, humanitarian and environmental, aiming to support the educational process for less fortunate digital school students around the world.
The \u201cDonate Your Device\u201d campaign embodies the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, \u201cmay God protect him,\u201d with the importance of promoting digital education applications and solutions, which represents the future of the education sector, and is consistent with the visions of His Highness and the objectives of the digital school to provide educational opportunities. Providing disadvantaged students around the world with the highest educational standards, through digital learning solutions. The campaign aims to support digital school students who face difficulties in obtaining electronic devices, by collecting devices from institutions and individuals keen to support this humanitarian idea and contribute to enabling students around the world to have access to education.
The campaign contributes to achieving a comprehensive vision for the future, through an innovative partnership in humanitarian and environmental work, as it combines humanitarian and technological initiatives to serve groups in need, and reflects the entities\u2019 commitment to their social responsibility and their keenness to build a more solidaristic and sustainable society.
The digital school called on individuals and entities to participate in the initiative by donating used electronic devices, or financial donations, through official donation channels in cooperation with the Emirates Red Crescent, or through the campaign website https:\/\/www.donateyourowndevice.org, or by sending a short text message (SMS) to 2441 for Etisalat users or 3551 for Du users.
(Promoting human values and the spirit of giving)
His Excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications, Director General of the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Digital School, confirmed that the \u201cDonate to Learn\u201d campaign \u201cDonate Your Device\u201d translates the directives of the wise leadership to promote human values and the spirit of giving to provide opportunities for the less fortunate groups. It also embodies the integration between the various sectors in the country to include individuals, institutions and private sector companies, in a joint national humanitarian initiative, to support the digital school\u2019s efforts and goals by providing a digital learning experience for less fortunate students around the world. And enhancing the UAE\u2019s efforts and initiatives in the Year of Sustainability.
His Excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama said that the Digital School initiative by launching the campaign reflects its endeavor to reduce the digital and knowledge gap in the acquisition of information and its transmission among students around the world by providing electronic devices to students in need, in a way that supports efforts to provide learning opportunities for all, expand their scope, and enhance their access around the world.
His Excellency expressed his confidence in the success of the campaign in achieving its goals through community interaction and the participation of individuals, government agencies and private sector institutions, which reflects the value of giving inherent in the UAE society.
He praised the constructive cooperation between the digital school, the Emirates Red Crescent Authority, and e-Cyclex, in organizing the \u201cDonate to Learn\u201d campaign, stressing the importance of partnerships with institutions, individuals, and companies in supporting lofty national and humanitarian goals, achieving environmental sustainability, and confronting the challenge of electronic waste, which statistics indicate. The world produces about 50 million metric tons annually, equivalent to 800 laptop computers per second.
(Qualitative education despite the challenges)
For his part, His Excellency Hamoud Abdullah Al Junaibi, Acting Secretary-General of the Emirates Red Crescent, confirmed that the \u201cDonate Your Device\u201d campaign comes as an extension of the digital school initiatives that work in cooperation with the Emirates Red Crescent, to expand the scope of its work in many countries that are witnessing major challenges in the field of education. Technical, and providing educational opportunities for less fortunate students in those countries.
Al-Junaibi said that the Digital School Initiative is moving forward with solid and solid foundations to achieve its humanitarian and development aspirations in less fortunate communities, by attracting more partners and supporters by launching such campaigns, which enhance its efforts in creating a modern technical educational system that meets the needs of students in refugee camps and community groups. The most fragile ones, rely on information technology and artificial intelligence, and contribute to the continuation of their education process despite the challenges they face.
He stressed that the initiative has brought about a qualitative shift in the level of educational services directed to these segments, especially in countries that benefited from its programs in its previous stages. He said that the Emirates Red Crescent Authority will spare no effort in achieving the goals of the initiative and expanding the umbrella of beneficiaries of its educational and academic programs in many countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The launch of the campaign is part of the initiatives supporting the achievement of the goals of the Year of Sustainability in the UAE, through which the digital school works with the community to provide learning tools for students, by collecting used electronic devices from individuals and institutions and refurbishing them according to best practices and in partnership with institutions specialized in this field. The \u201cDonate to Teach\u201d campaign to donate your device will contribute to providing the digital infrastructure of computers, which represents the greatest challenges facing students in less fortunate communities in accessing learning platforms and digital content for the digital school.
The initiative contributes to developing innovative and sustainable solutions to support the school\u2019s digital orientations and projects, by repurposing and refurbishing old equipment to serve efforts to develop future education solutions. In addition to its interest in the environmental aspect, the initiative supports efforts to enable less fortunate students to learn remotely with the latest technologies.
The campaign also supports efforts to achieve environmental sustainability and enhance the social responsibility of institutions and individuals, which supports the achievement of sustainable development goals, by reducing electronic waste, as millions of electronic devices are disposed of annually, which leads to the accumulation of waste that poses a threat to the environment and public health, and the campaign contributes to Providing an innovative solution to this challenge by collecting and refurbishing used electronic devices, in cooperation with the e-Cyclex company, which specializes in recycling and refurbishing electronic devices in environmentally safe ways.
The campaign seeks to involve the largest number of institutions in supporting students with electronic devices by providing surplus and old computers and electronic devices and allocating them to the digital school initiative, to be refurbished for use in educating less fortunate students around the world. Participating institutions will be granted a green contribution certificate in sustainability and recycling. Recycling from E-Cyclex and Reloop International.
(Empowering communities with digital learning solutions)
It is worth noting that the \u201cDigital School\u201d, which was launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, \u201cmay God protect him\u201d, in November 2020 within the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives Foundation, is the first integrated digital school. It is one of its kind, and aims to empower students with digital learning options in areas that do not have the appropriate conditions or components that students need to continue their education. It also provides a qualitative option for blended and distance learning, in a smart and flexible way, targeting the less fortunate societal groups, refugees and displaced persons, through\u2026 Modern educational materials and curricula.
The digital school adopts a comprehensive approach to digital transformation in education, which is based on expanding educational opportunities through digital learning options, especially in remote and developing areas where appropriate conditions for learning are not available. The digital school continues to expand, as it has included more than 60,000 students from 8 countries, including Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Mauritania, Lebanon, Colombia, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, and has trained more than 1,500 digital teachers, while educational and training content is provided in four languages: Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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