data.org today announced with Microsoft the five awardees of the Generative AI Skills Challenge, a global grant to explore, develop, and implement ways for organizations to train, upskill, and reskill the workforce to use generative AI.
Generative AI Skills Challenge
Strengthening the workforce with generative AI
A global grant for organizations training and upskilling individuals on generative AI to drive social impact
Overview
About the Challenge
The Generative AI Skills Challenge issued a call for best-in-class organizations training and upskilling teams on generative AI to drive social impact and advance socioeconomic mobility.
The Challenge sought out fair and community-led integration in low- and middle-income countries and contexts (LMICs), in order to accelerate digital inclusion and skills advancement and acquisition for workers from historically marginalized populations around the world. With support from Microsoft and data.org, the Challenge provides funding and technical assistance to awardees to build and scale their programs.
Awardees
Meet the Generative AI Skills Challenge Awardees
Selected from a pool of nearly 600 applications across 93 countries, the five awardees showcase the incredible breadth and promise of generative AI skilling to drive social impact across sectors, serving workers in healthcare, education, small businesses, and workforce development.
Chile
Data Elevates
Data Elevates and their partner CDI Chile are launching a generative AI education-to-employment program to unlock financial opportunities and economic potential for Venezuelan migrant women in Chile through a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) and live employment training and networking.
Nigeria
Global Integrated Education Volunteers Association (GIEVA)
The Global Integrated Education Volunteers Association’s (GIEVA) project goal is to bring women entrepreneurs in northern Nigeria into the digital economy. GIEVA will train and upskill women entrepreneurs on the use of generative AI capabilities to create digital livelihoods.
United States of America
Mississippi AI Collaborative
Mississippi AI Collaborative is a multi-stakeholder project—spanning across K-12 public schools, higher education, non-traditional education platforms, and small businesses —to develop an ecosystem of leveraging AI in the state of Mississippi.
India
Myna Mahila Foundation
The Myna Mahila Foundation is training local women, known as RANI workers, in generative AI to power a text-based AI platform designed to dispel misconceptions about women’s sexual and reproductive health.
Greece
The Tipping Point
The Tipping Point aims to empower educators to become agents of change through generative AI skilling. This project will provide training, curated prompt libraries, and a generative AI-based app for enhanced mentoring to educators in remote settings in Greece.
The impact that these innovative projects will have on our global workforce is significant. Through our shared commitment to educating and empowering industry professionals with the skills to leverage generative AI, we are going to shape the future of data for social impact and its power to transform communities.
Danil Mikhailov, Ph.D. Executive Director data.org
Challenge Judges
Skill Development Industry Leaders
We gathered prominent industry experts on social sector skill development and the impact of new technologies, such as generative AI, to review Challenge applications.
Responsible AI
Our Design Philosophy
A foundational objective of the Challenge is to ensure that AI responsibly serves the public good. The Challenge Design Philosophy outlines the key considerations used to guide the application design and selection judging processes of the Challenge.