EDequity.Global is excited to officially announce that the American Association of University Women – San Diego Branch has invested $10,000 to provide scholarships for (12) female and minority students, entrepreneurs and innovators to apply toward Amazon Web Services (AWS) training and certification – scholarships will be awarded to winners of our Global Amazon #AlexaSkillsChallenge! Let’s continue making economic and social impact, achieving gender equity, racial equity and building the next generation of inclusive leadership, jobs and economic development!
An Equitable Future: We can progress equality in education, economics and leadership… working together.
“If we are going to help build the next generation of technologists we need to be committed to work in the public interest by providing scholarships, skills training, opportunity for entrepreneurialism, innovation, roadmaps and role models to women and minority students that introduce them to what this work entails and what success looks like in the career field. The Global Amazon Alexa Skills Challenge is an important first step.” – Jane Niemeier, President AAUW San Diego
“We are at a defining moment for the world’s children and young people.”
The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres launches his Policy Brief on Education in a Post COVID-19 world together with the Save Our Future campaign. #SaveOurFuture
Originally published on World Economic Forum by Henrietta H. Fore & Robert E. Moritz
COVID-19 is casting a long shadow over the futures of young people all around the world.
On World Youth Skills Day, we asked young people their thoughts on redesigning education and skills for the post-COVID era.
For children and young people looking to gain an education and skills, COVID-19 has made a bad situation even worse.
Before the pandemic, they faced a growing mismatch between the skills they were learning in school and those needed for employment.
Now, under the shadow of COVID-19, over one billion are out of school altogether. And millions of young people who were set to join the workforce cannot find jobs.
This moment is an important opportunity to reimagine how, and what, education and skills are delivered to prepare students for a rapidly changing world of work.
But governments and businesses cannot address this problem alone.
So, on World Youth Skills Day, we decided to bring together young people from Algeria, Argentina and South Africa to hear their thoughts about how we can re-design and re-imagine education and skills systems to meet their needs.
The virtual discussion, moderated by Mari-Lisa Njenga, a youth advocate from Kenya, identified four important principles that should guide change.
Hear from Hayde Martinez, Founder and CEO of De Cero a Ciencia De Datos (From Zero to Data Science) on the machine learning as a service tools (MLaaS) she empowers students with to stay connected even when they’re apart. Code and tools: Python, Jupiter Notebook, Psychic Learn, Pandas, Numpy, TensorFlow, and machine learning as a service by cloud providers AWS and Azure. Focuses on background”: How the algorithms work, the memory, data, software, hardware – having this knowledge makes it easier to use machine learning as a service in the cloud. EDequity Executive Insights — In partnership with AAUW San Diego, De Cero a Ciencia De Datos and The Girls Code Initiative.
A virtual community round table discussion addressing the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on students, educators and public college/university leaders, with particular focus on how to best serve marginalized communities. The panel featured five civic, education and technology thought-leaders who are leading innovation in education with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in San Diego and across the state of California.
The UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training is UNESCO’s only specialized centre for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) and an integral component of UNESCO’s international programme on TVET. Through its capacity development programmes, collaborative projects and global UNEVOC Network, UNESCO-UNEVOC advocates for quality TVET that is accessible for all.
UNESCO-UNEVOC’s Strategy for TVET
The Education 2030 Agenda calls on Member States to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, with the aim of overcoming challenges posed by rapid technological developments, sustained high levels of youth unemployment, demographic changes and a growing demand for green skills.
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