Baidu Recycle E-waste Light App
百度回收站轻应用
About Baidu• Established in 2000 and headquartered in Beijing
• The largest Chinese internet service provider in the world
• Mandated to “enable everyone to reach their fullest potential on an equal
footing”
• Offers many services, including a Chinese language-search engine for
websites, audio files, and images
• Offers 57 search and community services including Baidu Baike, an online
collaboratively built encyclopedia, and a searchable, keyword-based discuss-
ion forum
• In recent years, it has committed a huge amount of resources to develop its
web search tools for disadvantaged groups of people such as the visually
challenged, children and the elderly. These efforts have helped bridge the
information gap and build a more cohesive knowledge-sharing society.
Identify new applications of Big Data to increase social innovation and the usage of Big Data technology for increased awareness and promotion of environmentally-friendly practices
Serve as a mechanism for collaboration between UNDP and big data experts, as well as entities in more traditional industries (such as recycling/reclamation and electronic producers) throughout both the public and private sectors in China
Jointly established by UNDP and Baidu in Beijing
UN-Baidu Big Data Joint Lab
Jointly established by UNDP and Baidu in Beijing
UN-Baidu Big Data Joint Lab
Continues to highlight, dissect and provide solutions for myriad sustain-able development issues, thus advancing UNDP’s own mandate as well as helping create informational feedback loops with the data gathered, resulting in exponential delivery of data-analysis-solution
Both sides will be able to conduct in-depth research and analysis on areas like poverty reduction, environ-mental protection, and disaster management
Big Data can also be used to foster China’s sustainable develop-ment and to promote and apply relevant development experi-ence around the world
√Baidu identifies valuable data for UNDP through their
search function and mobile internet products
√
UNDP utilizes Baidu’s technology to provide data analysis,
processing and trend forecasting; to formulate development
strategies for UNDP; to build broader partnerships and to
provide effective advice for project implementation.
√The lab shares concrete examples of China’s big data
application with the world, hoping to become the main
driving force behind UN’s global big data plans. Experts
from this lab will share China’s development experience
around the globe
Key Responsibilities
√Both sides carry out a series of research studies on UN’s
key development projects such as “E-Waste” and “Youth
Employment” to promote the willingness of non-
governmental organizations to cooperate with the
government, including in the sharing of data, technology
and analysis tools
√Both sides utilize Baidu’s multiple platforms and big data
technology to implement a new public welfare model in order
to enhance public awareness on environmental protection,
including but not limited to the first UN big data charity
video
Key Responsibilities
“Baidu Recycling”
Smartphone application for e-waste recycling
1ST project of the Big Data Joint Lab in China
Integrates with Baidu’s big data and image recognition, LBS maps and other technologies to guide people how to use the app to deal with e-waste in the right way
Allows personalized collection of e-waste and even provides a cash amount based on its value
Builds up a big data processing model that would reduce environmental pollution caused by e-waste effectively
Procedures to use the app
DOWNLOADING SEARCHING TAKING PICTURES
MATCHED
UNMATCHED
CONTACTS & REMINDS
Download “百度应用”(“Baidu Application”)app on App Store
Step 1
Step 2Search “百度回收站”
(“Baidu Recycling”)
on the search engine
Take pictures of
obsolete domestic
appliances through
the app
Step 3
The system then automatically
identifies what type of
appliance it is and provides
a guide to relevant value
Step 4
If it fails to recognize the exact model, choose the category that you would like to recycle
Step 5
a) Televisionb) Refrigeratorc) Washing Machined) Air-conditionere) Computerf) Fan
• Users fill in their name, phone number, address, preferred pick-up time and other information
• Formal dismantling vendor with national certification (TCL) will receive the message and call back to make a pick-up appointment
• The page also reminds users the available resources that will result from the recycling as well as the environmental hazards if improperly disposed and illegally dismantled
Step 6
Q & A
THANKS