On March 30, the United Nations announced at its headquarters in New York that Tencent has become its global partner to provide comprehensive technical solutions for the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, and will host thousands of conferences and events through Tencent Meetings, corporate WeChat and Tencent Simultaneous Interpretation Online. This means that under the novel coronavirus epidemic, the largest global conversation to date will be carried out with the technical support of Chinese Internet technology companies. "This is a new and innovative global cooperation," the official UN news release said.
Fabrizio Hochschild, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Preparations for the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations, said, "We are strengthening the development of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations in the field of digitalization and constantly adapting to the many constraints of the epidemic environment. This cooperation with Tencent is timely.
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, the United Nations hopes to establish and realize the global vision for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations in 2045 through dialogue and strengthen international cooperation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations General Assembly is in urgent need of technical support. After the cooperation between the United Nations and Tencent, the participants of the dialogue from all over the world will flexibly organize and participate in online meetings of different sizes through Tencent Meetings, WeCom, and Tencent Simultaneous Interpretation Technology.
At the same time, the United Nations will launch a one-minute survey for global citizens to gather people’s thoughts on key issues such as addressing major global challenges through dozens of platforms such as WeChat and QQ, Tencent News, Tencent Watch, Tencent Video, Tencent Weishi, and Tencent Advertising.
Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus epidemic, Chinese Internet technology companies have played an important role in the anti-epidemic war by leveraging their online platforms and technological advantages.
Entering March, the global epidemic prevention and control situation has become more and more severe, and the output of "Chinese experience" from the medical and scientific fields is playing an important role in the process of helping the global epidemic. In addition to setting up a global epidemic fund, Tencent has also joined major technology Internet platforms to invite global developers to use codes to "fight the epidemic"; the international version of Tencent’s health COVID-19 pandemic module was also officially open-sourced not long ago to help relevant institutions around the world to quickly launch epidemic inquiry services.