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Innovative projects from China and Finland to receive UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for enhancing learning through Artificial Intelligence
06/04/2021
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The 2020 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education will be awarded to the “One College Student Per Village” programme from the People’s Republic of China and the collaborative education platform “ViLLE“ from Finland. Each laureate will be awarded $25,000 for their use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance the continuity and quality of learning.
Through the 2020 edition of the Prize, UNESCO encourages the use of inclusive and human-centered AI applications to support the continuity of quality learning as schooling in many parts of the world is disrupted by COVID-19. Since the early stages of the pandemic, countries around the world have been introducing distance-learning solutions drawing on various technologies. Nevertheless, the disruption in schooling has exacerbated a pre-existing learning crisis and caused a massive new loss in learning.