7 avril 2021
Each year, the UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize, supported by UNESCO and the Kingdom of Bahrain, rewards the best technological innovations to improve children’s education. For the 2020 edition, the Chinese programme “One College Student Per Village” and the Finnish collaborative education platform “ViLLE” are the two winners of the prize.
The Chinese program and the Finnish platform have one thing in common: both use artificial intelligence to improve the quality of a child’s learning and keep him or her in educational continuity. An international jury of experts composed of five international members, recognized in the field of information and communication technologies but also in the field of education, deliberated at length to award the prize. The jury was composed of :