UNESCO, Huawei to train East African lecturers on AI [Video]

Huawei and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have partnered to train university lecturers in Eastern Africa on artificial intelligence (AI), aiming to prepare them to introduce the technology to their students.

The training will take place on August 12-23 and will mostly focus on Kenya, although UNESCO will launch an online virtual platform for lecturers from other Eastern African countries.

Participants will learn about the basics of AI, from machine and deep learning experiments to mainstream development frameworks. They will also delve into Huawei’s Atlas AI computing platform and MindSpore AI development framework. The former is an AI infrastructure solution launched in 2019, while the latter provides a platform for the development and execution of AI models.

The participants are expected to be fluent in at least one programming language and will …