11th Edition of WISE Summit Kicks Off in Doha

Doha, November 28 (QNA) - The 11th edition of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), one of the global initiatives of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), kicked off  Tuesday at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, under the theme "Creative Fluency: Human Flourishing in the Age of AI".
    More than two thousand participants will participate in this two-day edition, representing various stakeholders in the field of education, including thought leaders, policy makers, technology innovators and young pioneers to discuss the implications and impacts of AI on the global educational landscape.
    The conference includes more than 20 main sessions and more than 150 speakers from experts, academics and specialists, and includes 6 tracks that discuss issues of Building Ethical AI, Scaling for Equity and Access, AI and Digital Sovereignty, Rethinking Higher Education and Jobs in an AI-Driven World, Classrooms of the Future and Systems Transformation, in addition to the youth studio, and Discover the Majlis, which includes "learning laboratories and a research display area."
    In her keynote speech, the founder of Tamang Ventures Nina Schick stressed that the world today is experiencing a critical stage in which machines are changing human life and experiences, and AI has reached an advanced stage in which machines are humanized and robots are made to think and feel like humans, pointing out that AI has shown that machines can come up with creative productions that we thought were exclusive to humans.
    In turn, the Founder of Ethical Journalism Network Aidan White commended the topics of the WISE 2023 summit, as it is one of the most important global events in the field of innovation in education and the impact of technology in changing the world and making it a better place, noting that information has now become a public good in which trust is under great threat from the bad use of AI, stressing the importance of restoring trust and faith in all the content we provide and focusing on the values of integrity in all the information we issue.
    He explained that trust in the press and the news it provides is under great pressure from major companies and stakeholders through the spread of false information and the misuse of technology, stressing the need to defend the right to access information, verify and investigate its authenticity, and provide what serves humanity and contributes to its progress and advancement based on values, ethics, accuracy, facts, impartiality and other principles in all circumstances, especially crises and wars. (QNA)