LG Uplus KidsTopia Bags MSIT Award At 2024 Metaverse Alliance Conference
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 23 (Bernama) -- LG Uplus, one of South Korea's leading telecom carriers, has been awarded the Science and ICT Minister’s Award at the 2024 Metaverse Alliance and Self-Regulation Achievement Sharing Conference for its children's platform, ‘KidsTopia’.
LG Uplus’s Metaverse Project head, Kim Min-gu, expressed pride in the platform’s achievements, affirming the company’s commitment to advancing KidsTopia as a leading global platform that prioritises education, entertainment, and safety.
Hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) of the Republic of Korea, the conference recognises outstanding contributions to the growth of the metaverse ecosystem, bringing together experts from various sectors. This year’s event took place on Dec 11 at the Seoul Dragon City Hotel in Yongsan-gu, Seoul.
In a statement, LG Uplus said KidsTopia earned the Minister’s Award in recognition of its exceptional performance in such areas as User Protection, User-to-User Interaction and Collaboration, and Authenticity for Users.
KidsTopia was praised for its innovative approach in offering children educational experiences through engaging 3D virtual environments, powered by LG Uplus’s proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) technology, ixi.
The platform allows children to learn about diverse subjects, including foreign languages, animals, dinosaurs, and space, all while interacting with AI-powered characters.
KidsTopia’s child-friendly design and multilingual capabilities have driven its success, reaching over 900,000 global subscribers in just one year and seven months since its launch, gaining widespread popularity at home and abroad.
In addition to the MSIT recognition, KidsTopia was recently awarded the ‘Gold Medal’—the highest honour in the application category at the ‘2024 Mom’s Choice Awards’, a globally renowned certification programme for child-appropriate products, on Dec 4.
'Mom’s Choice', an international certification organisation, evaluates and recognises outstanding products based on the overall assessment of their quality, educational value, and originality, with input from educators and parents, as well as children.
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