Training course: Foundations of Artificial Intelligence in the Newsroom (Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, until February 16)

The Foun­da­tions of AI, or Mod­ule E of the WAN-IFRA Women in News Dig­i­tal ABCs series is an inter­ac­tive and inten­sive 9‑week pro­gramme to impart the foun­da­tions and impli­ca­tions around gen­er­a­tive AI on the news media indus­try, while facil­i­tat­ing peer exchange and net­work­ing between media through­out the Euro­pean neigh­bour­hood coun­tries of Arme­nia, Belarus, Geor­gia, Moldo­va and Ukraine.

Deliv­ered through 5 sequen­tial lessons which cul­mi­nate in a final assign­ment, par­tic­i­pants will walk through the news­room and oper­a­tion appli­ca­tions of the new tech­nol­o­gy along­side ethics of adopt­ing the rapid­ly chang­ing tech­nol­o­gy. Each les­son is accom­pa­nied by an assign­ment that must be com­plet­ed in order to progress to the next les­son.

Local Facil­i­ta­tors will review the assign­ments and give feed­back dur­ing semi week­ly local chap­ter online tuto­ri­als. Dur­ing these local tuto­ri­als, guest pre­sen­ters from oth­er local chap­ters will share their own sto­ries of usages of AI in the news­room either through pro­duc­tion or process­es, to encour­age peer-to-peer exchanges and best prac­tice share. Lyn­d­sey Jones, course archi­tect, will join in each local chap­ter tuto­r­i­al at the mid-way point of the course.

The final assign­ment will serve as a plat­form to apply for DT-Glob­al fund­ed pro­duc­tion sup­port that will be issued in Q2 2024. Pro­pos­als should incor­po­rate key learn­ings and tools impart­ed from the pro­gramme. Com­ple­tion of Mod­ule ‘E’ is a pre­req­ui­site to con­sid­er­a­tion for the grants.

Pro­pos­als will be reviewed by an impar­tial expert pan­el. A pos­si­bil­i­ty of up to 30 awards, car­ry­ing max­i­mum val­ue of EUR15,000 each, may be issued. Pro­pos­als are sub­mit­ted as the 4th and final assign­ment in the AI Mod­ule.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the top pro­pos­al with­in each local chap­ter – as vot­ed on by your peers – will trav­el to Copen­hagen to par­tic­i­pate in the WAN-IFRA News Media Con­gress tak­ing place from 27–29 May 2024.

Appli­ca­tion dead­line: Fri­day, 16 Feb­ru­ary

Mark your cal­en­dars: Offi­cial launch webi­nar to be held 28 Feb­ru­ary at 9:00 CET

Please note, suc­cess­ful can­di­dates should have a strong work­ing knowl­edge of Eng­lish. While course con­tent and live inter­ac­tions through webi­na­rs will be deliv­ered in local lan­guages, all assign­ments through­out the pro­gramme must be sub­mit­ted in Eng­lish. There are a total of 4 assign­ments, with the final assign­ment serv­ing as the pro­pos­al for con­tent pro­duc­tion sup­port that will be pro­vid­ed to a select group of suc­cess­ful appli­cants.

The total approx­i­mate time invest­ment required by par­tic­i­pants is 1–2 hours per week for a peri­od of 9 weeks, exclud­ing the final assign­ment.

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If you are fac­ing any issues with the appli­ca­tion form, please con­tact us via email at info@womeninnews.org