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May 29, 2020

General

National consultation on digital credentails

We are currently working on a technical infrastructure that organisations can use to issue digital credentials across the EU and beyond. This technical infrastructure could be used by various stakeholders when issuing any type of Digital Credential to learners. The work was presented at the National workshop on micro-credentials and blockchain certification on May 28 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Anthony Camillieri, presenting the MicroHE project and the digital credentials landscape in Europe during the “National workshop on micro-credentials and blockchain certification”

National workshop on micro-credentials and blockchain certification for the MicroHE project on May 28, 2020 Ljubljana, Slovenia

May 13, 2020

AI4D

Mini-documentary on Artificial Intelligence 4 Development

We produced a mini-documentary describing the ideas, aspirations, and research potential of our African colleagues in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

The footage was taken at the kick-off of the workshop Organized by K4A, IDRC, SIDA at workshop “Toward a Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) in sub-Saharan Africa”, Nairobi, Kenya, April 2019 @IDRC_CRDI #UnitedNations #artificialintelligence #SDG #UNESCO #videolectures #AI4DNetwork #AI4Dev #AI4D

The emerging network of machine learning and AI practitioners and researchers undertaking a collaborative roadmap for AI for Development in Africa. The three-day workshop zoomed in on three critical areas of 1) policy and regulations, 2) skills and capacity building and 3) the application of AI in Africa.

April 26, 2020

AI4D

ICLR presentations of AI4D mini-grants

As part of the AfricaNLP – Unlocking Local Languages workshop, we hosted a number of projects working in Artificial Intelligence in Africa for Development, funded via IDRC grants.

Denis Pastory Rubanga – A Computer vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction tool

T. Idriss Tinto – Building a Medicinal Plant Database for Preserving Ethnopharmacological Knowledge in the Sahel

Abdelhak Mahmoudi – Arabic Speech-to-MSL Translator: ‘Learning for Deaf’

Martha Shaka – Effective Creation of Ground Truth Data-set for Malaria Diagnosis Using Deep Learning

Khushal Brahmbhatt – End-to-End Learning for Autonomous Driving on Unpaved Roads – A Study Towards Automated Wildlife Patrol

Tegawende Bissyande – Preservation of Indigenous Languages

Amelia Taylor – A Semi-Automatic Tool for Meta-data extraction from Malawi Court Judgments

Adewale Akinfaderin – Using Artificial Intelligence to Digitize Parliamentary Bills in Sub-Saharan Africa

March 23, 2020

General

K4A awarded by European Commission with two major AI projects

The European Commission is funding 4 networks of AI research excellence centres with EUR 50 million through Horizon 2020, for supporting collaborative research addressing industrial and scientific challenges identified by such networks in joint research agendas. Knowledge 4 All Foundation is part of two of these networks in order to call expects to mobilise the best research teams and the most prominent experts in the field. The two projects are ELISE and HumaneAI.

March 18, 2020

UNESCO

K4A partners up to launch Dynamic Coalition

K4A partners with other stakeholders helping to launch with UNESCO a Dynamic Coalition for the OER Recommendation on 2 March 2020 at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, during the cancelled Mobile Learning Week.

The Dynamic Coalition will aim to expand and consolidate commitments to actions and strategies as well as reinforce international cooperation among all stakeholders in the 4 areas of the UNESCO OER Recommendation: i) Building the capacity of stakeholders to create, access, re-use, adapt and redistribute OER; ii) Developing supportive policy; (iii) Encouraging inclusive and equitable quality OER; and (iv) Nurturing the creation of sustainability models for OER.

Check the new Recommendation in OER on the UNESCO official website.

March 16, 2020

General

Coronavirus Watch dashboard released

Just released! 5D animated visualization of coronavirus spread by K4A trustee Marko Grobelnik. You can track the development from late January till today globally/per country/per capita. Available on the Coronavirus Watch page.

Global prediction – 5D visualization of the developments of coronavirus at Coronavirus Media Watch dashboard

France prediction – 5D visualization of the developments of coronavirus for France at Coronavirus Media Watch dashboard

US prediction – 5D visualization of the developments of coronavirus for the US at Coronavirus Media Watch dashboard

Coronavirus Media Watch across the world and per country

March 11, 2020

X5GON

Successful AI and OER hackathon using the X5GON platform

We are proud of our final hackathon at the British Embassy in Paris using the X5GON platform to make OER based education more accessible everywhere. We would like to thank our great colleagues without whom this hackathon couldn’t have happened Sahan Bulathwela, John Shawe-Taylor, Colin de la Higuera, Davor Orlic, Kristijan Perčič and colleagues from UCLIC Sheena Visram and UCL Computer Science Dr Dean Mohamedally and of course all the Osnabruck, Nantes, UCL and JSI students competing.

X5GON final hackathon, British Embassy in Paris

February 3, 2020

AI4D

K4A grant to solve access to Nigeria’s legislative bills with AI

K4A grant recipients Adewale Akinfaderin, Olamilekan Wahab and Olubayo Adekanmb, are successfully using Artificial Intelligence to digitize parliamentary bills in Sub-Saharan Africa and Specifically in Nigeria. Read their recent interview in the Techpoint.Africa article.

November 28, 2019

X5GON

Keynote and In-depth Dialogue on Teaching and Learning in the AI Era

The participants of the conference Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and AI: The Role and Readiness of Teachers in Tokyo, Japan were briefed about the basics of AI and especially its connection with education via our findings in the X5GON project. The double keynote featured two K4A trustees, both UNESCO Chairs in AI and OER.

15th ASEF Classroom Network Conference, Teaching and Learning in the AI era, 28 November 2019, Tokyo, Japan

15th ASEF Classroom Network Conference, Workshop on Teaching in a world where Artificial Intelligence will have made an impact, 28 November 2019, Tokyo, Japan

15th ASEF Classroom Network Conference, Teaching and Learning in the AI era, 28 November 2019, Tokyo, Japan

November 28, 2019

UNESCO

ASEF ClassNet15 session on Artificial Intelligence competencies for teachers

The K4A Foundation together with the ASEF Foundation organised a workshop at the yearly 15th ASEF Classroom Network Conference. The expected output of this workshop was to provide validation of the recommendations on Artificial Intelligence competencies for teachers and learners linked to the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers and information literacy.

15th ASEF Classroom Network Conference, Workshop on Teaching in a world where Artificial Intelligence will have made an impact, 28 November 2019, Tokyo, Japan

15th ASEF Classroom Network Conference, Teaching and Learning in the AI era, 28 November 2019, Tokyo, Japan

15th ASEF Classroom Network Conference, Workshop on Teaching in a world where Artificial Intelligence will have made an impact, 28 November 2019, Tokyo, Japan

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