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November 30, 2024

ELISE

Knowledge 4 All Foundation Concludes Successful Collaboration with European AI Excellence Network ELISE

Knowledge 4 All Foundation is pleased to announce the successful completion of its participation in the European Learning and Intelligent Systems Excellence (ELISE) project, a prominent European Network of Artificial Intelligence Excellence Centres. ELISE, part of the EU Horizon 2020 ICT-48 portfolio, originated from the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and concluded in August 2024.

The European Learning and Intelligent Systems Excellence (ELISE) project, funded under the EU's Horizon 2020 programme, aimed to position Europe at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning research — The European Learning and Intelligent Systems Excellence (ELISE) project, funded under the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, aimed to position Europe at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning research

Throughout the project, Knowledge 4 All Foundation collaborated with leading AI research hubs and associated fellows to advance high-level research and disseminate knowledge across academia, industry, and society. The Foundation contributed to various initiatives, including mobility programs, research workshops, and policy development, aligning with ELISE’s mission to promote explainable and trustworthy AI outcomes.

The Foundation’s involvement in ELISE has reinforced its commitment to fostering innovation and excellence in artificial intelligence research. By engaging in this collaborative network, Knowledge 4 All Foundation has played a role in positioning Europe at the forefront of AI advancements, ensuring that AI research continues to thrive within open societies

November 21, 2024

ELISE, HumanAI

Knowledge 4 All Foundation Completes Successful Engagements in European AI Excellence Network HumanEAI-Net

Knowledge 4 All Foundation (K4A) is pleased to announce the successful completion of its engagements in two prominent European Networks of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Excellence Centres: the HumanE AI Network. These initiatives have been instrumental in advancing human-centric AI research and fostering collaboration across Europe.

Both HumaneAI-Net and ELISE were part of the H2020 ICT-48-2020 call, fostering AI research excellence in Europe. — The HumaneAI-NetE was part of the H2020 ICT-48-2020 call, fostering AI research excellence in Europe

The HumanE AI Network, comprising leading European research centres, universities, and industrial enterprises, has focused on developing AI technologies that align with European ethical values and societal norms. K4A’s participation in this network has contributed to shaping AI research directions, methods, and results, ensuring that AI advancements are beneficial to individuals and society as a whole.

K4A remains committed to advancing AI research and development, building upon the foundations established through these collaborations. The foundation looks forward to future opportunities to contribute to the global AI community and to promote the responsible and ethical development of AI technologies.

August 20, 2024

Lacuna

Knowledge 4 All Foundation Completes NLP Projects with Lacuna Fund, Transitions Efforts to Deep Learning Indaba Charity

Knowledge 4 All Completes NLP Projects, Passing the Torch to Deep Learning Indaba — Completed NLP Projects, Passing the Torch to Deep Learning Indaba

The Knowledge 4 All Foundation is pleased to announce the successful completion of its Natural Language Processing (NLP) projects under the Lacuna Fund initiative. These projects aimed to develop open and accessible datasets for machine learning applications, focusing on low-resource languages and cultures in Africa and Latin America.

The portfolio includes impactful initiatives such as NaijaVoice, which focuses on creating datasets for Nigerian languages, Masakhane Natural Language Understanding, which advances NLU capabilities for African languages, and Masakhane Domain Adaptation in Machine Translation, targeting improved domain-specific machine translation systems. The Foundation’s efforts have significantly contributed to assisting African researchers and research institutions in creating inclusive datasets that address critical needs in these regions.

As part of a strategic transition, the Foundation has entrusted the continuation and expansion of these initiatives to the Deep Learning Indaba charity. The Deep Learning Indaba, dedicated to strengthening machine learning and artificial intelligence across Africa, is well-positioned to build upon the groundwork laid by Knowledge 4 All. The Foundation extends its gratitude to the Deep Learning Indaba charity for taking over these projects and is confident that their expertise will further the mission of fostering inclusive and representative AI development in the future.

June 1, 2023

General, UNESCO

Conference of the UK UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme

On 30-31 May 2023, UK National Commission for UNESCO hosted the Conference UK UNESCO Chairs Conference to mark the yearly anniversary of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme. This event, supported by the National Commission for UNESCO, brought together over 20 participants representing some 22 UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN in the UK. This global network encourages inter-university cooperation, collaboration and information sharing. Today, the Programme involves over 700 institutions in 126 countries.

The two days of knowledge sharing inspired new ideas, partnerships, and opportunities that highlighted the value of intellectual collaboration across the network and beyond. The value of transdisciplinarity, future-oriented approaches and the need for increased North-South-South and South-South cooperation were emphasized throughout the event.

UK UNESCO Chairs Conference, Birmingham, May 31, 2023

May 25, 2023

General, HumanAI

Presenting the new science of Artificial Intelligence that can put Europe on the world stage in the European Parliament

K4A is very happy to have helped co-organize an awesome half-day event at the European Parliament, titled “Beyond ChatGPT: How can Europe get in front of the pack on Generative AI Models?“, with Humane AI Net, IRCAI – International Research Center on Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO, CLAIRE – Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe, TAILOR, AI4Media, and VISION.
A big thank you to Paul Lukowicz, Cees Snoek, Fredrik Heintz, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Virginia Dignum, Ieva Martinkenaite, Francesca Rossi, Holger Hoos, Marko Grobelnik, Catelijne Muller, Clara Neppel, Dino Pedreschi, and Cécile Huet.

Irena Joveva MEP, HumaneAI delivering a one day event @ European Parliament, Presenting the new science of Artificial Intelligence that can put Europe on the world stage, May 25, 2023 Brussels, Belgium, European Parliament, Room A5G1

HumaneAI delivering a one day event @ European Parliament, Presenting the new science of Artificial Intelligence that can put Europe on the world stage, May 25, 2023 Brussels, Belgium, European Parliament, Room A5G1

February 23, 2023

Encore+, General

Contributing to Lillehammer’s (Norway) Lifelong Learning ICDE Conference with the workshop: “Your place in the Open Ecosystem”

KA, as a partner institution of the ENCORE + Network, approached how Open Technologies can support initiatives, projects, and business’ uptake of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in the Lifelong Learning Conference 2023 (15^th-17^th February) in Lillehammer (Norway), which gathered 350 participants from 32 countries.

The workshop was intended to provide participants an opportunity to imagine and recreate their work and business as Open, reflecting on OERs applicability and benefit to business, innovation, and technology in lifelong learning. There was exchange, debate, and genuine interest on the possibilities openness offer to different stakeholders.

Some of the ongoing K4A’s research for the ENCORE+ Network was also presented as relevant background for engaging participants with the activities proposed. An overview of how businesses envisioned the use and potential strategies by the use of approach was provided, in terms of services provided to learners, and technologies supporting these processes. Additionally, some of the latest AI-based solutions for OER repositories were showcased as efficient tools catering for lifelong learners’ needs.

K4A workshop at the third International Lillehammer Lifelong Learning ICDE Conference 15-17 February 2023

October 3, 2022

HumanAI

Funding available for human-centered AI projects

K4A is a partner in the HumanE AI network of excellence which has been running a program of micro-projects and there is a potential to link this with the Network for AI and Knowledge for Sustainable Development (NAiXUS) established jointly by the International Research Centre on AI under the Auspices of UNESCO, the DataPop Alliance, Knowledge 4 All Foundation, ELLIS Alicante UNIT and Regional Center for Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br). The Humane AI has funds reserved to finance the involvement of external partners and this call is concerned with micro-projects that would like to leverage these funds to include NAiXUS partners. Check here for the opportunity.

Human AI net Micro-Projects Collaboration Network

September 21, 2022

General, HumanAI

The periodic technical report for the HumaneAI Network successfully submitted to EU reviewers

Chatila Raja, Sorbonne University - European Network of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Yvonne Rogers, University College London - European Network of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

European Network of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

After the HumaneAI project setup phase, initiating the internal and external collaboration mechanisms the first 18 months were focused on engaging with the research questions posed in the proposal within WPs 1-5 and conducting a series of concrete high-impact activities to connect to the community. Nearly 70 micro projects spanning the large majority of the project partners have been initiated resulting in 82 project publications, incl. Nature, PNAS, Phys.Rev, Artificial Intelligence etc papers.

A major result of this work has been the updated research agenda which includes a novel conceptual framework for human-AI collaboration, a notion of shared representations centered around of narratives and the expansion of the definition of AI trustworthiness and explainability in terms of human-computer interaction (systems that humans (both individually and as a society) feel they understand and are comfortable trusting rather than systems that “only” fulfill certain hard technical specification).

August 21, 2022

AI4D, General

Lacuna Fund 2022 grantees convening in Tunis

As of August 2021, Lacuna Fund has selected 29 projects for funding in the Agriculture, Natural Language Processing, and Equity & Health domains. Project teams from the first rounds of funding in Agriculture and Natural Language Processing have either completed or are nearly finished with their datasets. Those project teams were invited to attend the 2022 Lacuna Fund Grantee Convening.

K4A was granted two projects funded by the first rounds of Lacuna funding, Jade Abbott leading the “Masakhane MT: Decolonizing Scientific Writing for Africa” and Peter Nabende’s project “Named Entity Recognition and Parts of Speech datasets for African languages“. Both project results are available now, with links to the datasets listed on the Lacuna Fund website.

We were extremely happy to meet representatives from many of the project teams in person!

May 1, 2022

AI4D, General

African languages are richer for 20 more language datasets

We are very happy to announce that one of our Lacuna funded projects titled Named Entity Recognition and parts of Speech Datasets for African Languages has been successfully finished. At the start of our work, none of the languages associated with this project had a manually prepared NER dataset. Also, only a very small subset of languages in South Africa, and Yoruba, Naija, Wolof, and Bambara had Part-of-speech (POS) datasets. This project has therefore provided the first carefully prepared NER and POS datasets for 20 African languages. The project initially achieved new parallel texts (up to 8000 parallel sentences) for at least 8 low-resourced languages. The parallel texts are a very valuable resource for bilingual NLP applications. The results will be uploaded to the Masakhane Github repository.

David Adelani presenting the project results

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