Top Winners at the AI for Good Innovate for Impact Shanghai
- 22 August 2024
AI has great potential to benefit society, but actions must be taken to ensure it addresses diverse needs and is built to encompass the diversity of users and populations. With growing development of AI, the disparities that separate segments of society and nations into those who have and those who do not have digital access, skills, and knowledge, may lead to inequity in digital use, opportunities, and benefits of AI.
We can’t meet the challenges of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) without closing the digital divide, especially on AI.
That is why AI for Good launched a new project, Innovate for Impact, to recognize and facilitate the sharing of AI applications and expertise worldwide. This project aims to showcase AI applications to drive the achievement of SDGs, which was approved by the Steering Committee of China’s donation in 2024.
In February 2024, we issued two open calls simultaneously: a call for AI use cases, and a call for AI scholars.
The project received 219 use case submissions from 38 countries and 118 scholar applications from 41 countries. The use cases were evaluated based on clarity, SDG alignment, AI’s impact on SDGs and future work.
At the recent event World AI Conference in Shanghai, we awarded the top 12 winners to help bridge the knowledge gap and promote experience sharing on AI applications. At this event, we helped to foster collaboration and networking among participants, including policy makers, academia, industry, and civil society.
And the winners are…
1. Best AI for Good Scholar Award
Winner: Ms Shadia Y.M. Baroud
2. Best Industry Scholar Award
Winner: Ms. Shan XU
3. Best Innovative AI Solution Award
Company: Lenovo
Country: Brazil
Use case title: “Libras Project”
4. Best Accessibility Award
Company: Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology
Country: Cambodia
Use case title: “Machine Translations for Khmer Braille”
5. Best Digital Transformation Award
Company: Telecommunications And Digital Government Regulatory Authority
Country: UAE
Use case title: “U-Ask”
6. Best SDG Impact Award
Company: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Country: Malaysia
Use case title: “Intelligent UAV-Assisted Plant Disease Detection in Rock Melon Greenhouses”
7. Best Industry Impact Award
Company: China Telecom
Country: China
Use case title: “Innovative Practices of Cloud Networking Enabled by Network Large Model”
8. Best AI for Humanity Award
Company: China Mobile
Country: China
Use case title: “AI Enabling Travel Model helps search and rescue incidental lost elderly people for the global aging challenge”
9. Best AI-driven Social Impact Award
Company: Tata Elxsi
Country: India
Use case title: “Easing Operations using ML/AI solution for 6G and beyond Network Orchestration and Secure Network Operations”
10. Best Innovate for Impact Award
Company: Alibaba DAMO Academy
Country: China
Use case title: “Democratizing Large Language Models for Southeast Asian Languages: SeaLLMs Help to Achieve Inclusive Development for Underrepresented Communities in Digital World”
11. Best Inclusivity Impact Award
Company: SenseTime
Country: China
Use case title: “Financial Model Empowered AI Digital Employee Bridge Digital Divide”
12. Best Environmental Impact Award
Company: Umgrauemeio
Country: Brazil
Use case title: “Embrace the Forest”
Finally, all of these cases have been published in the AI for Good Innovate for Impact Report, with a stocktaking of these AI solutions aligned with SDGs.