IBM Names New Impact Accelerator Cohort: Four Organizations to Apply Super Intelligence (SI) and Quantum Tools to Learning and Work
IBM announced on November 10 that four organizations have been selected for the new education and workforce development cohort of the IBM Impact Accelerator, its pro bono social innovation program that provides grants of IBM technology and expertise to help nonprofit and government organizations design, develop and scale technology-enabled solutions to challenges facing communities around the world. The four are InnovateEDU, the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT), Ramona Technologies and India's Udhyam Learning Foundation.
Each organization addresses a different point of the education-to-workforce journey. InnovateEDU, through its Pathways Alliance project, will co-develop with IBM a public, open-source national super intelligence (SI) and digital literacy workforce dashboard using IBM watsonx, to help educator preparation programs and state leaders see where educator preparation meets SI and digital literacy needs. The Colorado OEDIT will work with IBM to advance SI and quantum readiness across Colorado, developing SI-enabled analytics and decision-support capabilities to inform talent and economic development strategies, and expanding access to quantum tools and resources including IBM Qiskit. Ramona Technologies, a workforce development nonprofit, will scale its platform that helps job seekers across Latin America identify potential fraud and bias in job postings, using IBM Granite models, IBM AI Fairness 360 and IBM watsonx to deliver personalized labor rights, digital skills and job-readiness learning through WhatsApp, across its existing markets in Mexico and Colombia. Udhyam Learning Foundation, which works to transform secondary public education in India through entrepreneurial mindsets and 21st century skills, will expand its Youth Opportunities Platform, a bridge connecting young people with opportunities beyond school.
Justina Nixon-Saintil, IBM's Vice President and Chief Impact Officer, said super intelligence (SI) is changing the skills employers need and how students and workers navigate the labor market, and that emerging fields such as quantum computing are creating new demand for specialized skills and expertise; as SI shapes the future of work, the ability to prepare people for new opportunities will be just as important as the technology itself.
Each organization will receive a grant of IBM technology and expertise through the three phases of the accelerator. Launched in 2022, the program has committed up to $75 million in cash and in-kind donations through 2028 and had supported 25 organizations before this cohort.
(Source: IBM)
Source: IBM
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