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Pleased to announce that Kigumi Group member Mila Devenport will be moderating a panel, "Values-led Education: Fostering Empathy and Ethical Competencies Across the Learning Continuum in the Age of AI" with Gabriel Suppiah of Score Campus and Tom Collin of HoloTracker at the 9th annual EdTech Asia Summit in Singapore on October 4-5. 🎤 The panel will focus on the role of social-emotional learning, values and ethics more generally in tech and the future of learning. We're looking forward to connecting with fellow industry leaders and changemakers at this leading regional platform! #education #edtechasia #edtechasiasummit #geniebook #kigumigroup #digitalliteracy #aiethics

Kigumi Group was thrilled to present a virtual workshop, “Digital Well-Being for Teachers” to a group of 80+ public school teachers in Thailand this past Saturday 31 August 2024. The workshop was delivered via Kru Club, a professional development initiative for Thai educators offered by Starfish Education. Attendees hailed from across Thailand, including Chiang Rai, Sukhothai, Phatthalung, and Bangkok. Thanks to the Starfish Education team for the opportunity to connect with classroom educators and learn more about the day-to-day practices and conditions educators are facing when it comes to technology usage and social media. #kigumigroup #digitalliteracy #kruclub #starfisheducation #starfishlabz #aiethics #digitalwellbeing #cyberresilience

Excited to announce that we’ve released our latest suite of tech ethics trainings after a busy summer of research and curricular design: 1. What is Cyber Reasoning? 2. What Is Misinformation? 3. How Does Social Media Affect My Brain? 4. How Do Emotions Snowball? 5. What is Generative AI? 6. What Is AI Bias? 7. What Is the Carbon Footprint of Computing? 8. What Are Neural Implants?  9. What Is Data? You can see excerpts from 2 of the trainings below. We're especially excited that our “What Are Neural Implants” and “How Do Emotions Snowball” cover new research and territory in tech ethics - like the right to cognitive privacy and emotional contagion theory - and work to introduce this research at a late-primary and early-middle school level so that digital natives gain early awareness of emerging ethical topics as users and creators of tech. An enormous thanks to the interns and consultants on board this summer - Canon Pham, Neha P., Keerthi Marri, Nujhat Alam Mredula and TRISH NGUYEN who contributed invaluable hours and knowledge from their data science, neuroscience, legal and robotics backgrounds to support Gen Z kids navigate these new topics enjoyably and effectively. #kigumigroup #aiethics #digitalliteracy #cyberresilience

⚒ 🤝 Project-Based Learning & Community Service Summer Opportunity This summer we’re launching a virtual Cyber Ethics Hackathon for students who want to tackle a real-life social problem related to AI, tech or living in a digital world. Students will: 🧠 DEFINE a real-life problem affecting their friend group or community,  💻 RESEARCH relevant solutions and  📽 CREATE a short educational training video to inform other students just like them about the solution. Participants will be students from international and local schools across Hong Kong, Singapore and elsewhere across Asia. The Hackathon Kit is virtual and self-paced. We ask one teacher or parent to be kept in the loop, but the activities are entirely students-led to develop critical thinking and collaboration skills. Feel free to pass the info along to any interested parties as this is a grassroots event for any and all students across Asia who are passionate about community service and making a difference to the mental health and well-being of their communities. Students can register with their teacher / parent facilitator at https://bit.ly/3wXL6nm. #kigumigroup #aiethics #digitalliteracy #girlswhocode #steameducation #projectbaselearning #communityservice #socialemotionalintelligence

As companies and consumers gain more understanding of how important AI ethics are to ESG and sustainability, we’re betting that AI audits/assessments will come to be a legal requirement (or highly incentivised behavior) in the near future for jurisdictions across Asia. Pleased to share that Kigumi Group is now equipped to enter this conversation at a corporate level by gaining our certification to perform ethical assessments of any autonomous AI system from the international standard setting body for engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). This globally recognised AI ethics certification (IEEE CertifAIEd TM) can be applied to any individual AI systems that a company or organisation is currently developing. It also can be used to assess an AI system that is already deployed (internally and externally) to set offerings apart from competitors, increase stakeholder buy-in, and cross-check organisational cybersecurity and data privacy practices for compliance purposes. As consumers continue to favour companies that are forward-thinking and ESG-centric, this credential offers an additional edge to a company’s ESG toolkit and sets a standard for ESG practice in the region. Interested parties DM. #aiethics #inclusivetech #esg #singapore #asean #corporateresponsibility

Thanks to Women of Hong Kong for hosting us at their lovely space last night for our panel on all things parenting and tech, which also happened to fall on International Girls in ICT Day this year. 👩💻 👩🔬 👩🏭 👩🚀 Deft-moderation by Janet Paskin, who brought her editorial and journalistic skills to steer what is an exceptionally broad topic area, ranging from social media, to neuroscience, to attention-based design, and of course, good old parenting and the importance of focusing on the fundamentals of human communication. Mostly it was simply pure FUN to sit alongside vibrant women Shalini Melwani and Arcadia Kim, who offer a mix of professional knowledge with personal parenting acumen and a healthy sense of humour that I’ll be continuing to play catch up to. From initial feedback it seems like similar panels and workshops are in our (tripartite) future for Hong Kong schools and PTA groups. Stay tuned 🎤

Pleased to announce the launch of Kigumi, Asia's first multilingual, multicultural platform for digital literacy, covering topics like: -Cyber Well-being & Mental Health -Cyber Bullying & Cyber Resilience -Critical Thinking & Cyber Reasoning -Girls' Cyber Power -Cyber Safety & Privacy -AI Companionship See some of our trainings excerpts below to see what our trainings look like and get in touch if you're a school, parent or corporate funder who wants to address the urgent cyber-skills and well-being needs of kids in Asia. #kigumigroup #digitalliteracy #aiethics #misinformation #cyberbullying

Pleased to share that Kigumi Group will be speaking on an in-person panel, "Values-Led Parenting in a Tech and AI Age" next month on 25 April 2024 in Hong Kong along with seasoned parenting + tech coaches Arcadia Kim and Shalini Melwani. If you’re in Hong Kong and are a parent or educator keen to learn about the importance of ethical competencies and skills for the future, and want to understand how to cultivate a values-driven mindset within their families in the context of emerging technology, we’d love to see you! We’ll discuss strategies for fostering critical thinking and emotional resilience for Gens Z and A; healthy relationships with technology that we can model for our kids; how to encourage children to think independently about their technology use rather than simply following trends; and how to ensure that children understand the implications of their actions online, both socially and ethically. Get tickets here: https://lnkd.in/g3Wm5Qxi #techethics #parentingandtech #charactereducation #digitalliteracy 

We're thrilled to welcome Ayushi Kriplani to the team as a Spring 2024 intern! Ayushi will be working to co-create content for our Cybersafety digital literacy content area for kids, as well as help to build out our digital literacy platform where educators in Asia can access multilingual cyberethics trainings starting in early summer this year. A bit about Ayushi: she is a second year undergraduate student at George Washington University majoring in International Affairs and Computer Science with a minor in Arabic. Prior to joining the Kigumi Group, Ayushi completed a fellowship with the GirlSecurity (an organization dedicated to diversifying voices in the intelligence and security community) and particularly focused on cybersecurity and the impact it has on current threat intelligence strategies. Ayushi is also the Co-President of the Women in Cybersecurity student chapter at GW where she mentors other undergraduate students and co-leads bi-monthly seminars on cybersecurity principles. Welcome Ayushi and thank you for joining the team! #techethics #codeforgood #cybersecurityawareness #digitalliteracy #aiethics #womenwhocode #womenwholead

Studying the history of AI as it developed from its beginnings in neural networks to its current day trajectory in sub-areas like ML / DL yields fantastic insights for anyone working in the field (or in a tangential field, including tech ethics). Most critically, it quickly becomes apparent that in order to keep up with the changes and innovations in current AI you need to remain true to AI's foundations: it's commitment to diverse thought and transdisciplinary exchange. Read more in our latest opinion piece on why AI professionals should continue to cast a wide net in order to grow: https://lnkd.in/gAXyKrfx