The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for global endeavors to tackle critical social, economic, and environmental issues by 2030. These 17 goals include ending poverty, ending hunger, ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being, and ensuring quality education. Culture plays a vital role in achieving the SDGs, as the preservation of cultural and natural heritage is linked closely with the addressing of contemporary challenges like climate change, poverty, and the digital divide. Furthermore, cultural diversity fosters sustainable development and integrated coexistence in the course of global civilizational exchanges.

In recent years, the burgeoning of big data and AI technologies has not only significantly reshaped human society and daily lives but also promoted sustainable development and cultural preservation. Upholding the principle of "tech for good", the Global Digital Intelligence Education Innovation Competition has dedicated a track to "Sustainable Development and Cultural Preservation". This track encourages university students worldwide to use technology to address issues concerning sustainable development and cultural preservation, and jointly build a better future for mankind.

The Organizing Committee will not specify topics for this track. Instead, participating teams are expected to choose their own topics that address global challenges in sustainable development or cultural preservation. They should also propose innovative, practical, and scalable solutions that utilize big data or AI technologies.

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This track encourages participants to innovate by integrating digital intelligence technologies with sustainable development and cultural preservation. The following topics are for your reference, and you may explore topics beyond these examples.

• Poverty eradication: Use AI technologies for targeted poverty alleviation, providing customized help and support in line with the actual conditions of impoverished families.
• Health and well-being: Develop intelligent applications that provide basic medical services in remote areas, such as AI-powered disease prediction and diagnostic support.
• Quality education: Use machine learning to enhance online education platforms by personalizing content that addresses the needs of students from different backgrounds.
• Environmental protection: Develop a satellite imagery recognition system to monitor and analyze deforestation activities in real time, thereby helping reduce illegal logging and promote ecological conservation.
• Restoration of cultural relics: How can AI technologies expedite the identification of fragments from archaeological excavations and help devise restoration plans?
• Reconstruction of ancient texts: Use image and natural language processing technologies to digitally reconstruct and virtually simulate ancient texts, facilitating their preservation and display.

1. For the Innovation Track, participants must be full-time undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral students at institutions of higher education. For the Sustainable Development and Cultural Preservation Track and Application Development Track, participants must be full-time undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral students at institutions of higher education, or individuals who graduated from or left such institutions within the last three years (after January 1, 2021). The status of being a student is determined as of the official announcement date of the competition.

2. Each participating team may have no more than ten members, with no more than five members from the same institution of higher education. Each individual may join only one project in the Innovation Track.

3. Each participating team can choose whether to appoint instructors, with a maximum of three allowed. At least one team member, including participants and instructors, must be from a DI-IDEA member institution.

4. After registration, no changes are permitted to the leaders, members, or instructors of the participating teams.

5. During the competition, if any submitted materials are found to be false, or if any participants are caught plagiarizing or violating others’ intellectual property, the participants involved will be disqualified.

6. Personnel involved in topic compilation and those with access to data from the competition organizers and technical support teams, as well as their close relatives, are prohibited from participating.

This track is structured into five phases: registration, preliminary round, semi-finals, finals, and award ceremony.

Registration:From June 27 to August 15, 2024.

Participating teams should register on the official competition system atLinkby August 15, 2024. They must also submit a competition proposal, not exceeding 1,000 words. This proposal should outline the issue being addressed, the technical solutions, and the expected outcomes. It will serve as the primary criterion for preliminary evaluation. Supplementary materials, such as PowerPoint presentations, videos, website links, and technical reports, are optional but can provide additional support for the evaluation. These may also be submitted after a team advances to the semi-finals if not provided earlier. Any changes to the team leader, members, instructors, or competition proposal will not be allowed after registration.

Preliminary round:From August 16 to 20, 2024.

Participants who meet the eligibility criteria set by the Organizing Committee will advance to the preliminary round. The results of this round will be reviewed online. For this track, a maximum of 100 submissions will be selected to move forward to the semi-finals. The preliminary results will be announced on August 21, 2024.

Semi-finals:From September 10 to 15, 2024.

Online submissions are permitted for the semi-finals, with the review process conducted both online and offline. For this track, up to 15 submissions will be chosen to progress to the finals. The semi-final results will be published on September 16, 2024.

For the submissions advancing to the semi-finals, participants may submit or update their materials—including PowerPoint presentations, videos, website links, and technical reports—by September 9, 2024, as long as the competition proposals remain unchanged.

Finals:Late October, 2024.

The finals will take the form of in-person presentations. Participants in China must attend the event in Beijing. International participants have the option to join online. Further details regarding the competition schedule and format will be announced at a later date.

For the submissions advancing to the finals, participants may update their materials—including PowerPoint presentations, videos, website links, and technical reports—by October 19, 2024, as long as the competition proposals remain unchanged.

Award ceremony:November 2, 2024.

The award ceremony will take place in Beijing, China. Further details will be announced later.

The schedule is based on Beijing time. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to update the competition schedule and format as necessary.

Innovation (30 points):Submissions are expected to identify novel issues that are well-suited for creative and distinctive solutions based on digital intelligence technologies.

Social Impact (25 points):Submissions should demonstrate notable social benefits, especially in areas of sustainable development or cultural preservation.

Practicality (25 points):Submissions are expected to be highly effective in addressing identified issues. Additionally, they should offer widespread applicability and sustainable potential.

Teamwork (20 points):Team leaders and members should be committed to sustainable development or cultural preservation. They should demonstrate strong professional skills and esprit de corps.

Important note: All participants must ensure that their submissions do not violate any intellectual property or labor rights and are free from any legal disputes.

For this track, the following pre-tax prizes will be awarded in Renminbi (RMB):

One gold award with a prize of RMB 100,000;

One to three silver awards, each with a prize of RMB 30,000;

Three to five bronze awards, each with a prize of RMB 10,000;

Six to ten merit awards, each with a prize of RMB 2,000.

1.The data provided by the contest is only used for the contest itself，and must not use or disseminate the process data outside the scope of the competition without authorization.

2.All process data belongs to the organizer.

3.During the competition, the intellectual property rights of any methods used by the contestants, including algorithms and workflows, belong to the contestants.

Registration for the competition signifies agreement with the above statements by the organizer.

SDG1	End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
SDG2	End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
SDG3	Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
SDG4	Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
SDG5	Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
SDG6	Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.
SDG7	Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.
SDG8	Promote sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
SDG9	Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and foster innovation.
SDG10	Reduce inequality within and among countries.
SDG11	Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
SDG12	Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.
SDG13	Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.
SDG14	Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development.
SDG15	Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.
SDG16	Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.
SDG17	Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development.