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#28 Chatac's Mhraf Worku on leveraging AI for students in low-resource communities

#28 Chatac's Mhraf Worku on leveraging AI for students in low-resource communities

Tech is Good Podcast vor 3 Monaten

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Mhraf discusses (1:04) growing up in Ethiopia, Kenya and South
Africa; then attending Trinity College in Connecticut in the
U.S., (1:34) studying Economics and International Relations with
a concentration in African Studies at Trinity College, (2:43)
attending African Leadership Academy in South Africa with a
tight-knit group of 100 students for two years, (12:47) working
in education for 8 years, (13:43) heading sales and partnerships
at Chatac, (15:40) moving back to Africa, (17:03) bringing over
her network of educators to Chatac, (17:44) working together with
her team of 8 people at Chatac, (19:25) serving almost 40,000
learners to lower-connectivity areas such as Afghanistan through
Sola X, (20:34) allowing learning to happen on WhatsApp through
AI, (23:20) working with a wide age group range and deploying
learning in local languages and local contexts through AI,
(26:04) scouting mission-aligned organizations in remote areas
who are online, (27:54) training teachers in their pedagogy,
(28:49) tapping into previous connections and talking to new
connections to build a pipeline, (30:00) working to integrate
Chatac into government entities, (32:00) attempting to build an
intuitive platform on WhatsApp, (33:47) being wary of use cases
for AI, (35:25) the role of AI in society and necessary protocol,
(38:00) designing Chatac's AI around the 7 vectors of learning in
the U.S, and (39:18) the importance of the human element in
education.

Links:

linkedin.com/in/mhraf

www.chatac.ai

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