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May 13, 2020

AI4D

Mini-documentary on Artificial Intelligence 4 Development

Mini-documentary on AI4D Artificial Intelligence 4 Development
Mini-documentary on AI4D 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

November 7, 2019

UNESCO

Designing Teaching and Learning Competencies for Artificial Intelligence

On 7 November 2019 we held a meeting at UNESCO with the objective to examine the elements for an instrument to support teachers’ and learners’ capacity development for the use of Artificial intelligence. The basis of the meeting was the report by UNESCO Chair in teacher training technologies with OER.

Workshop on Teaching and Learning Competencies for AI from an Information Access Perspective, Paris 2019
Workshop on Teaching and Learning Competencies for AI from an Information Access Perspective, Paris 2019
Workshop on Teaching and Learning Competencies for AI from an Information Access Perspective, Paris 2019
Workshop on Teaching and Learning Competencies for AI from an Information Access Perspective, Paris 2019

November 6, 2019

UNESCO

K4A trustee discussing AI challenges at UN event co-hosted by Slovenia

The Slovenian mission to the United Nations, the Council of Europe (CoE) and UNESCO hosted an event discussing the challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) at the UN headquarters in New York. The event title Artificial Intelligence: Technology to Serve Humankind, Setting Legal Standards, released a document and shared the view that AI offered a number of advantages but also many risks. Moderated by Slovenian Justice Ministry State Secretary Gregor Strojin, with key input from K4A trustee Marko Groibelnik who talked about AI certification, the debate focused on legal and ethical issues of existing and future use of AI.

Artificial Intelligence: Technology to Serve Humankind, Setting Legal Standards
Artificial Intelligence: Technology to Serve Humankind, Setting Legal Standards
Artificial Intelligence: Technology to Serve Humankind, Setting Legal Standards

November 5, 2019

UNESCO

K4A trustee delivers UNESCO report on teacher training and Artificial Intelligence

Report on Education, Training Teachers and Learning Artificial Intelligence

K4A assisted UNESCO in delivering a report on teacher training in AI. In this report we study the different interactions between AI and Education with an emphasis on the following question: If we accept that artificial intelligence is an important element in tomorrow’s landscape, what are the skills and competences which should appear in the future curricula and how can we help to train the teachers so that they can play the required role?

This report is one of the first addressing these questions: as such it is less built as a synthesis of existing reports with an increment from previous works than as an analysis based on the experience of teachers, researchers, academics and practitioners.

October 28, 2019

X5GON

Join us in our Hackathon on Open Education and Artificial Intelligence

AI for the Common Good: F’AI’R Education Hackathon

K4A is facilitating a  hackathon supported by the UK Science and Innovation Network at the British Embassy in Paris, the United Nations ANCSSC, and H2020 project X5GON to allow students at several international universities to take part in an early requirements capture process, leading to design and build stage to develop a working prototype that supports Open Education with AI. Join us in this endeavor and see here for more details.

September 30, 2019

HumanAI

HumaneAI interview series: Ville Mäkelä, LMU München

Ville Mäkelä, LMU München
Ville Mäkelä, LMU München

My blue sky project for AI is to make better humans, to improve the quality of life, to enable humans to do things that they perhaps couldn’t do before, to make people better than the best people out there currently.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

September 25, 2019

HumanAI

HumaneAI interview series: Giuseppe Manco, Research ICAR-CNR

Giuseppe Manco, Research ICAR-CNR
Giuseppe Manco, Research ICAR-CNR

My bluesky project is to have the possibility of AI enhancing user experience.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

September 23, 2019

HumanAI

HumaneAI interview series: Andrea Passarella, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica

Andrea Passarella, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica
Andrea Passarella, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica

My bluesky project is to understand what is the interplay between huge amount of small pieces of AI, that work together to build a collective AI system.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

September 19, 2019

HumanAI

HumaneAI interview series: Marco Pistore, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Marco Pistore, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Marco Pistore, Fondazione Bruno Kessler

My bluesky project is to fund bottom-up research in order to make it robust and solve the problems we will face in the next years.

Organized by HumaneAI, Paris, France, June 2019 ‏‏#artificialintelligence  #videolectures

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