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ITU, AI Media Group launch the AI for Good
INNOVATION FACTORY (AFRICA) CHALLENGE The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has partnered with the AI Media Group and AI Centre of Excellence (AICE) to launch The AI for Good Innovation Factory Africa challenge focused on the application of AI for Good to address SDGs and part of a wider global movement through the AI for Good Global Summit.
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he AI for Good Innovation Factory aims to help innovators with scalable AI ideas as well as start-ups & scale-ups who are working towards achieving the SDGs by providing them with the opportunity to pitch their projects at the AI for Good Global Summit, a unique international and inclusive platform of AI innovators, sustainable development experts, UN partners, and public and private sector leaders. This will also be the platform for the AI for Good Global Summit partners to design, announce or launch global challenges. These
challenges can be of different forms and formats, depending on the challenge nature and the implementing partner. It varies from an online crowd data challenge on a specific topic, to a moonshot grand challenges with global impact that takes a few years to achieve.
The winner of the Africafocused challenge will also be showcased at AI Expo Africa 2021 ONLINE in September
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