AI Risk and Governance Literacy for African Education (Project 1 M)

Training African educators and students on safe and responsible use of AI in education

Project Details

What it is:
A simple, systematic literacy programme that takes educators, admin and students through the principles of AI governance and safety and what they mean in practice, so they can guide how AI is adopted in teaching and learning, and become advocates for safe and responsible AI.
What we have done and will do:
We are continuing implementation based on the findings from our pilot with the Lagos State government. The next step is a train-the-trainer programme which lets us scale the training of teachers and students far beyond what we could reach directly. After the train-the-trainer programme, we will expand the training to more schools in District IV and begin a fuller training for students, shaped by the research findings from the pilot. District IV has 97 schools. Our pilot covered 6 of them, training more than 70 teachers and 300 Students
Who is involved
- Rotimi Awaye (CEO and Co-founder), Osaz Ehiabhi (CDO and Co-founder), Steeve Ehiabhi (CTO), Professor Temitope Onuminya (Advisor - Project 1 Million, Senate Board Member, University of Lagos), Onatoye-Buraimoh Oluwakemi (Director: Co-curricular, Science, and Technology, Lagos State Education District IV), Kunle Saliu (Researcher, Project 1 Million).
Concrete output by the end of the grant:
1. A developed curriculum
2. A training manual for beneficiaries
3. AI safety and governance playbook for teachers, students and school admin.
4. 10 trainers produced through the train-the-trainer programme.
5. 400 teachers and admin trained.
6. 2,000 students trained.
7. An LMS that hosts the learning content and resources and tracks progress.

Theory of Impact

Theory of impact: how does this reduce x-risk from AI?

I believe strongly that clear awareness will play a major role in how AI adoption affects society and the world. Education is one of the best ways I know to shape the direction a society takes. If we train and equip educators to adopt AI safely, it has a ripple effect: not only on the educators themselves, but on their students, who go on to teach themselves and others how to use AI safely in learning and exploration. This becomes a culture they carry into the workplace long after school. So the impact is long-term and multi-generational.

Personally, I think reducing the worst risks from advanced AI depends on global coordination and governance, and on having enough capable, safety-minded people in every major region. I believe strongly that education is the highest-leverage point to change stare it. If a generation of African educators and students first meets AI through the lens of governance and safety, we create the base from which Africa's future AI-governance voices and safety-minded researchers can emerge. The train-the-trainer model is what makes this compound.

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Rotimi Awaye

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Funding Asks

grantmaking.ai Launch Round

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Minimum

$26,000

Ideal

$60,000

What this ask is

What it is:
A simple, systematic literacy programme that takes educators, admin and students through the principles of AI governance and safety and what they mean in practice, so they can guide how AI is adopted in teaching and learning, and become advocates for safe and responsible AI.
What we have done and will do:
We are continuing implementation based on the findings from our pilot with the Lagos State government. The next step is a train-the-trainer programme which lets us scale the training of teachers and students far beyond what we could reach directly. After the train-the-trainer programme, we will expand the training to more schools in District IV and begin a fuller training for students, shaped by the research findings from the pilot. District IV has 97 schools. Our pilot covered 6 of them, training more than 70 teachers and 300 Students
Who is involved
- Rotimi Awaye (CEO and Co-founder), Osaz Ehiabhi (CDO and Co-founder), Steeve Ehiabhi (CTO), Professor Temitope Onuminya (Advisor - Project 1 Million, Senate Board Member, University of Lagos), Onatoye-Buraimoh Oluwakemi (Director: Co-curricular, Science, and Technology, Lagos State Education District IV), Kunle Saliu (Researcher, Project 1 Million).
Concrete output by the end of the grant:
1. A developed curriculum
2. A training manual for beneficiaries
3. AI safety and governance playbook for teachers, students and school admin.
4. 10 trainers produced through the train-the-trainer programme.
5. 400 teachers and admin trained.
6. 2,000 students trained.
7. An LMS that hosts the learning content and resources and tracks progress.

How the money will be spent

Curriculum, manual, and playbook, fully produced and iterated, about $2,000.
Train-the-trainer to prepare 10 trainers, about $3,000.
Training 400 teachers and admin (materials, facilitator stipends and logistics), about $6,000.
Training 2,000 students, (materials, facilitator stipends and logistics) about $9,000.
LMS build, content hosting, and progress tracking, about $2,000.
Monitoring, evaluation, and an open published report, about $2,000.
Coordination and admin, about $2,000.

Minimum of $26,000

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