Why AI for Citizens?
Governments are creating comprehensive national AI strategies to develop a sustainable, inclusive and positive impact on their citizens, industries and overall societies. However, the AI skill gap is recognized as the most significant barrier for wider AI adoption. Public awareness and understanding of AI remain low. Public surveys often show that AI knowledge is based mainly on hype and speculations. For example, a recent UK survey shows that 37% of the public doesn’t even fully understand the term AI. Hence, there is an urgent need to demystify and democratize AI through appropriate public awareness programs to foster a correct understanding of the benefits and limitations of AI.
Program Goals
- AI Awareness: Build an elementary understanding of AI and its potentials and pitfalls.
- AI Appreciation: Gain introductory knowledge of the common domains of AI and its related issues and start building personal learning plans.
- General public with non-technical background that has digital access and want to know about AI. The program is not meant to replace any formal workforce preparation, education or skilling program.
- Intuitive and interactive content: 4 hours of self-paced, micro-learning content, to engage the public for developing initial awareness and understanding of AI in a non technical way.
- Open educational content: Full content to be available as Open Resources for government or implementation partner to host and offer to the public.
- MOOCs style implementation: Fully self-navigable content. Additional guidance or coach-led facilitation not required.
- Customized digital badges: Two digital badges offered (AI-Aware and AI-Appreciate) as recognition of completion of different levels of learnings. Badges are awarded after successful completion of a quiz at the end of each section. Badges are shareable and printable.
- Inclusiveness: Suitable for all ages, with examples that are location agnostic for broad applicability across the globe.
- Local Hosting: Content hosting allowed on customer’s choice of local platform through SCORM packages.
- Customized to country needs: Co-branding with government or implementation partner for all learning resources and badges to suit local country requirements
- Local outreach and simple program management: Implementation partners have full freedom for an outreach campaign, local program management for local scaling and sustenance.
- AI Aware badge: Awareness of AI and its common application. Understanding of common misconceptions around AI and why they exist.
- AI Appreciate badge: Appreciation of three different AI domains and common concerns associated with AI (ethics and biases) and creation of a personal learning plan.
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"Digital India dialogues series for emerging technologies has been launched by NeGD with support of Intel and UNDP. The objective is to demystify concepts, learn from best practices and adopt technologies in the projects that we are implementing. We look forward to collaboration with Intel.”
Abhishek Singh,
President & CEO NeGD Government of India
