Professor Susan Perry presented the Chair’s draft Charter to members of AMICAL’s Campus-level AI Initiatives Interest Group led by Professor Rukhsana Zia. About 20 participants represented nine different institutions from countries including Pakistan, France, Lebanon, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Kuwait, and Austria. The discussion focused on each one of the five […]
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In June 2025 we had the first complete running demo of the prototype for the Self Made Books for Disadvantaged Children project in the presence of Kyle Zimmer, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of First Book. Another demo followed with Inga Nichanian, Director of UNESCO’s Chairs Programme, Future of Learning and […]
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Professor Claudia Roda co-organized and co-chaired, with Micaela Parker, Founder and Executive Director the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA), the first International Data Science and AI Leadership Summit. The summit, hosted at The American University of Paris, focused on three aspects of resiliency in higher education for Data Science and […]
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With the AMICAL Consortium – a group of of 28 American‐modeled institutions in 19 different countries acrossEurope, Central and Southern Asia, the Middle East and Africa – this project aims at defining a set of charters on the ethical use of AI in higher education. Each university charter will be […]
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Professors Perry and Roda gave a presentation on AI competencies for human rights protection: empowering (digital) citizens at the 2024 edition of UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week. At this event we presented for the first time our 5 Principles for the Use of AI in Education: Related posts
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Supporting the right to education of disadvantaged children through story telling This project explores the use of AI to ethically and effectively develop a digital storytelling platform for children in low-income communities around the world. The work is the result of a collaboration between FirstBook and The American University of […]
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