During the “War Plague Alliance”.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Tech Planet “(ID: tech618) , author Yang Yezhen, reproduced with permission.
“Medical personnel are the main force in fighting the epidemic. They need more protection to alleviate their worries. Can we provide protection for medical personnel for free?”
On January 26th, at 13:00 on the second day of the new year, the 50-person team formed temporarily by the Alipay Insurance Group has been assembled for this unexpected task. This virtual team includes technology, products, operations, UED (User Experience Design), legal affairs, and finance. The chain of insurance products is relatively long. Generally, an influential insurance product requires at least half a month or a month from project establishment, research, development, and launch.
However, this time they want to do everything possible.
Despite the difficulties, the epidemic was urgent, abandoned the inherent process, did not have accurate actuarial calculations, and a “blind shot” budget. In the end, this product was successfully launched after 13 hours. Time is life, and they understand that this product has meaning only if it has raced through the epidemic.
Including Ali, the outbreak of the new year in 2020 allowed many Internet companies to spend a busy Spring Festival. Internet giants have donated a large amount of funds and materials. For example, Alibaba and Jack Ma have donated a total of 1.1 billion funds. Tencent announced the establishment of a 1.5 billion “War Plague Fund”, Baidu donated 300 million, and Meituan and BYTE donated 200 million.
In addition to materials and funds, Internet companies are also actively exporting and opening up technological capabilities. At the press conference of the State Council on February 10, the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued a call: “Can you develop a software that serves the community to fight the epidemic, which is more useful than donating one billion yuan!” On the same day, Alipay developed the first in the country. The intelligent community epidemic prevention system was launched.
Two days later, Alipay announced the ability of the 9-size program to open a “green channel” for the “anti-epidemic applet”, and launched the most authoritative close contact inquiry applet, which can identify security in 3 seconds.
Although the Internet people cannot go to the front line of the epidemic prevention, as many medical angels do. But after the epidemic, they also actively participated in this “war epidemic”.