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December 6, 2018

AI4D, General, UNESCO

Launching a new Artificial Intelligence Network of Excellence in Africa

We are very happy to announce the launch of the AI for Development Africa project wth IDRC, to support a network of excellence in AI in sub-Saharan Africa to strengthen and develop community scientific and technological excellence in a range of AI-related issue areas.

AI4D Africa is aiming to undertake four interrelated activities and will run for 18 months and result in the establishment of the network, research roadmap, portfolio of innovation projects, and recommendations for capacity building for ethical and locally relevant AI research around the African continent.

The project will draw from the recent IDRC and UNESCO supported mapping and facilitate a bottom-up network/community of researchers who will investigate and recommend how the network/community should shape its research agenda and actions.

Global South ecosystem is the Networks initial scoping study

UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence – John Shawe-Taylor with Dr. Maria Fasli, Professor, University of Exete, UNESCO chair on Data Science and Bhanu Neuphane who is AI Champion at UNESCO

November 19, 2018

General, UNESCO

Open Discussion on Artificial Intelligence @ UNESCO

At the Mozzilla Foundation offices in Paris we attended a great workshop and witnessed two great keynotes, from the drone delivery start-up Zipline showcasing the use of AI in logistics in Rwanda, and Bruno Lanvin, Executive Director for Global Indices, INSEAD, touching on a new report on AI global indexes to be presented at the 2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos.

UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence – John Shawe-Taylor with Dr. Maria Fasli, Professor, University of Exete, UNESCO chair on Data Science and Bhanu Neuphane who is AI Champion at UNESCO

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to advance Knowledge Societies and Good Governance – An Open Discussion following the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2018 Thursday, November 15, 2018 Mozilla Foundation, Paris, France Internet Governance Forum (IGF)

November 6, 2018

General, X5GON

Successful review @ European Commission

The first official review of the X5GON project at the European Commission in Brussels was successful. The project delivering an Artificial Intelligence platform for Open Educational Resources was pronounced as highly innovative and its platform one with great potential. X5GON can help us make a case for the role of OER in achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4.

We shared the idea of opening the platform and its APIs to the OER community and start-ups, and invite them to use our data and tools. This pleased the reviewers who suggested we should think about it as “…like you’re digging a tunnel into a mountain, not knowing what’s behind it – until you let them come to you. It’s a case of letting the community open your eyes to the possibilities.” Congrats to our partners!

X5GON project review in Brussels, 2018

October 22, 2018

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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

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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

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