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| A UNESCO-Huawei partnership brings an online training course on Artificial Intelligence to University Faculty Members in Eastern Africa |
| Author: isi网站管理员-刘成 Source: Updated: 2020-09-10 |
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In the quest to improving Africa’s readiness to fully embrace digital transformation, UNESCO partners with Huawei to organize an online training course on Artificial Intelligence for University Faculty Members in Eastern Africa from 17-21 August 2020.
Building the capacities and skills of a critical mass of human resources in technologies underpinning the fourth industrial revolution is crucial for Africa to fully embrace digital transformation and drive sustainable development on the continent. The UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa therefore joined hands with Huawei Technologies (Kenya) Company Limited to organize an online training course on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for university faculty members from ten countries in Eastern Africa.
This training is deemed a step in the right direction, as the World Bank has estimated that digital transformation will increase growth in Africa by nearly 2 percentage points per year and reduce poverty by nearly one percentage point in Sub-Saharan Africa. Also, UNESCO believes if young Africans are to compete for high-tech, higher-paying jobs and take advantage of increasing opportunities on the continent, then digital literacy, innovation and entrepreneurship must be at the core of continued education and training.
The week-long training (17-21 August 2020) is part of the priority areas of collaboration defined in a letter of intent signed between UNESCO and Huawei at the TECH4ALL Summit held in 2019 at Huawei Connect in Shanghai, China. The joint training program on enhancing digital skills and the application of AI should contribute to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which is an integral part of the program of equaling quality education in Huawei’s digital inclusion initiative, TECH4ALL.
At the opening of the training programme, Ms. Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta, the Director and Representative of the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa, emphasized the importance of building digital skills in Africa and the tremendous opportunities for technology to improve education quality and accessibility. She highly valued and recognized the collaboration with Huawei and expressed the willingness to build a stronger partnership with Huawei in fostering the use of Information and Communications and Technology (ICT) in education. She said, the need to improve ICT in education has become more evident than ever in the advent of COVID-19. Ms. Su shuqi from Huawei in her response also acknowledged Huawei’s collaboration with UNESCO and reiterated her organization’s readiness to partner with UNESCO in areas of common interest towards the SDG targets.
The trainees, totaling 39 university/college faculty members (including 12 women) from ten Eastern African countries were nominated by the UNESCO National Commissions of their countries. The training is designed to provide the most fundamental knowledge to the university/college teachers who will be able to introduce AI to their students.
Topics covered in the training include:
Trainees who complete full courses and clear the online certification exam shall receive a Huawei HCIA-AI certification to become certified professionals in AI.
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为帮助非洲国家更好地全面拥抱数字化转型，联合国教科文组织与华为合作，在2020年8月17-21日为东非地区的大学教师举办了一期人工智能在线培训课程。
大量培养具备第四次工业革命所需技能的人力资源，对于非洲全面拥抱数字化转型和推动非洲大陆的可持续发展至关重要。为此，联合国教科文组织东非区域办事处联手华为技术有限公司（肯尼亚），为来自东非10个国家的大学教师开办了人工智能（AI）在线培训课程。
据世界银行估计，数字化转型将使非洲的经济增速每年提升近2个百分点，而撒哈拉以南的非洲地区贫困率将减少近1个百分点，因此教科文组织认为这期培训是朝正确方向迈进的一步。另外，教科文组织相信，如果非洲年轻人想要竞争高薪的高科技工作，并把握住非洲大陆日益增多的机会，那么数字素养、创新和创业精神必须成为继续教育和培训的核心。
在2019年于上海举行的TECH4ALL数字包容峰会上，教科文组织与华为签署意向书确定了优先合作领域，而这场为期一周的培训（2020年8月17日至21日）就是其中一部分。这场联合培训项目旨在提升数字技能和促进人工智能应用，将有助于实现联合国可持续发展目标（SDGs），也是华为TECH4ALL数字包容倡议中平等优质教育计划的组成部分。
在培训项目开幕式上，教科文组织东非区域办事处主任兼代表恩东-贾塔（Ann Therese Ndong-Jatta）强调了在非洲地区培养数字技能的重要性，以及技术提高教育质量和教育机会的巨大机遇。她高度评价与华为的合作，并表示愿意与华为建立更加紧密的合作关系，促进信息和通信技术（ICT）在教育领域的应用。她表示，随着新冠肺炎疫情的爆发，提高教育领域信息和通信技术水平的需求比以往任何时候都更为显著。华为公司的Su Shuqi女士在回应中也肯定了华为与教科文组织的合作，并重申华为公司愿意与教科文组织在共同关切的领域开展合作，努力实现可持续发展目标。
共有39名学员参加了培训，均为十个东非国家的高校教师（包括12名女性），他们经由各自国家的教科文组织全国委员会提名参加培训。培训的目的是为有能力向学生介绍人工智能的大学或学院教师提供基础知识。
培训涉及的主题包括：
完成全部课程并通过在线认证考试的学员将获得华为HCIA-AI认证，成为人工智能领域的认证专家 |
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