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October 22, 2018

General

Great developments @ World Summit in AI

VIP tickets in our pockets! This was our first AI World Summit, and it didn’t disappoint. The world’s leading AI summit for the entire AI ecosystem, Enterprise, Big Tech and Research, presented not just a great mix of players, but also the not-for-profit players in the field.

AI for God Summit @ World Summit AI – The world’s leading AI summit for the entire AI ecosystem, Enterprise, Big Tech, Startups, Investors, Science

World Summit AI – The world’s leading AI summit for the entire AI ecosystem, Enterprise, Big Tech, Startups, Investors, Science

Yoshua Bengio @ World Summit AI – The world’s leading AI summit for the entire AI ecosystem, Enterprise, Big Tech, Startups, Investors, Science

Reporting last year’s Canadian AI Ecosystem

World Summit AI – The world’s leading AI summit for the entire AI ecosystem, Enterprise, Big Tech, Startups, Investors, Science

August 19, 2018

AI4D, General, UNESCO

Global South AI directory – a narrative of players, places and potential

The hype surrounding AI is spreading rapidly across sectors and around the globe, but more research is needed to explore the potential benefits and risks, particularly as they relate to the developing world.

For this purpose we have created a map of AI hot spots in emerging economies. The first mapping comprises 33 countries with a total of 617 institutions across 4 regions, ASIA, LAC, MENA, and SSA. The directory has quantitative value, as it presents the first bottom-up mapping of AI entities in the Global South.

Check the online directory for more detailed browsing. Read the blog here.

Bhanu Neuphane who is AI Champion at UNESCO

Emerging economies Artificial Intelligence ecosystem

August 8, 2018

General, UNESCO

John Shawe-Taylor becomes new UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence

John Shawe Taylor and Fred Mulder @ UNESCO Chair Workshop on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning at UNESCO HQ In Paris. — John Shawe Taylor is new UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence

We are pleased that the UNESCO Selection Committee has favorably evaluated the proposal for the establishment of a UNESCO Chair on Artificial Intelligence at University College of London which is one of the core members of our network.

The standard Agreement between the UNESCO Director-General and UCL to formally establish the Chair will be prepared shortly.

The Chair will study Artificial Intelligence as a driver and component for solutions and strategies to assist the achievement of the SDGs. This makes John Shawe-Taylor (K4A Chairman) the third trustee to become UNESCO Chair.

April 21, 2018

General, X5GON

Presentation on machine translation for open content @ Creative Commons Summit

We sucessfully presented our machine translation platform TransLexy and the “MT 4 Education” initiative to crack the language barrier for education in developing countries that have “fragmentary” or “weak/no” machine translation support, at the Creative Commons Summit 2018.

This is an annual meeting that celebrates the culture of sharing, and provides a space for open communities to collectively grow a vibrant, usable commons, powered by collaboration and gratitude. The 2018 CC Global Summit took place April 13 – 15, 2018, in Toronto and follows the theme “On Common Ground: Collaborate and Participate”.

Slides by Katherine Maher who is the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation

Creative Commons Summit 2018

March 27, 2018

General, UNESCO, X5GON

Presenting Artificial Intelligence tools for SDG4 at UNESCO

We presented the notion of AI in education and Machine Translation tools at the Mobile Learning Week, UNESCO’s flagship ICT in education event. The 2018 edition, under the theme “Skills for a connected world”, examined the types of skills needed in and for a connected economy and society, with a focus on digital skills and competencies. It also reviewed strategies and ways in which these skills can be delivered and assessed within the context of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4).

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March 21, 2018

General

K4A trustee Rayid Ghani blog on Cambridge Analytica

Rayid Ghani who is currently a trustee of K4A used to be Chief Scientist at Obama for America 2012 campaign focusing on analytics, technology, and data. Read his take on why what Cambridge Analytica did was unacceptable.

January 16, 2018

General

Open education policies reports

In February last year we participated in the OpenEdu Polices workshop at the JRC in Seville. After a year of intense research on open education policies, two reports have been recently published.

Going Open: Policy Recommendations on Open Education in Europe brings policy recommendations at regional, national and EU levels to foster open education in all education sectors.
Policy Approaches to Open Education – Case Studies from 28 EU Member States provides an analysis of current policies on open education across Europe. For this report, ministries of education, science and technology have been approached to present and discuss their current and planned open education policies.

Policy Approaches to Open Education – Case Studies from 28 EU Member States

Going Open: Policy Recommendations on Open Education in Europe

January 12, 2018

General

We have launched a new machine translation service for education

We have been working on a translation service that developers could use to make their MOOCs, LMS systems and education apps available in multiple languages. We already have machine-translation technology that we use across VideoLectures.Net to do things like provide subtitles in multiple languages. Now, we have extended it and made it available through Translexy, an API that allows you to translate your educational text.

January 5, 2018

General

Successful NIPS workshop on Fake News

We were involved in organising a NIPS workshop titled “Prioritising Online Content”. The event featured spotlights and presentatiosn from accepted papers, and keynotes by Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield and Aris Gionis, Aalto University.

NIPS workshop on Fake News

December 13, 2017

General

Successful launch of MicroHE project

We kicked-off a new international partnership for innovation in higher education at the Baden Wurttemberg Cooperative State University.

MicroHE adresses the hot topic in higher education in Europe today, namely developing the recognition for microcredentials and nanodegrees, for micro learning episodes, open and online.

The international partnership consist of eight selected partners: Tampere University (Finland), Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), the Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia), Knowledge Innovation Centre (Malta), and the Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (Italy) as well as the Kowledge 4 All Foundation (UK).

MicroHE Kick-Off Meeting

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