United Nations, Knowledge Foundation and DFINITY Join Forces
United Nations, Knowledge Foundation and DFINITY Join Forces
Three-year Partnership To Fundamentally Transform Education
09 April 2024 — Today, during his opening address at the 2024 Blockchain in Education Summit at Oxford University, Immersive Education Initiative and Knowledge Foundation Director Aaron E. Walsh announced the formation of a three-year partnership between the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Knowledge Foundation and DFINITY Foundation. Together the organizations will fundamentally transform the way in which learners, educators, and educational content creators acquire, distribute and generate knowledge via Knowledge Token® and the Internet Computer platform.
Over the coming three years the partner organizations will co-develop an innovative suite of technology products to educate participants on anti-corruption topics through a series of unique hackathon (coding competition) events under the UNODC Coding4Integrity youth hackathon framework. The hackathons, of which four will occur each year for the coming three years, achieve this through the ongoing development of Knowledge Token® on the Internet Computer blockchain platform.
The 2024 Oxford Hackathon that commenced today marks the inception of the three-year partnership between UNODC, Knowledge Foundation, and DFINITY Foundation.
How To Participate
To participate as a collaborator, or to host or sponsor the hackathons or related events, please contact a Knowledge Foundation Director.
UNODC
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is the United Nations agency mandated to support Member States on topics related to crime prevention and criminal justice. In so doing, UNODC works with Member States to contribute to global peace and security, human rights and development by making the world safer from drugs, crime, corruption and terrorism. Furthermore, UNODC plays a key role in promoting multilateral action when it comes to preventing and responding to crime as it acts as Secretariat of relevant intergovernmental bodies and supports States in the implementation of international standards.
Knowledge Foundation
The Knowledge Foundation is an educational organization responsible for the design, development, deployment and ongoing maintenance of the global Knowledge Token system and related open international standards for blockchain technology in the field of education.
Knowledge Token® is intellectual currency and, as such, may be used to pay for goods and services such as mobile phones, tablets, computers, games, textbooks, tuition and more. As an incentive and participation token that is awarded to learners in exchange for intellectual achievements, while privately and securely recording corresponding academic progress, Knowledge Tokens are issued in amounts that correspond to the units or amounts of knowledge, skills and/or credits that learners earn.
DFINITY Foundation
DFINITY Foundation is a contributor to the Internet Computer blockchain, a decentralized public compute platform. Leveraging the Internet Computer, the team is developing the Knowledge Token® system and protocol. The Internet Computer enables creation of software directly on the public blockchain, eliminating the need of any trusted intermediaries. It also facilitates integration with external web services and supports on-chain execution of AI models. In pursuit of this vision, DFINITY Foundation will collaborate with UNODC and Knowledge Foundation on hosting a series of hackathons at prominent universities worldwide, fostering collaboration between academics and software engineers to advance the project’s shared goals.
World-renowned Speakers
Speakers at Immersive Education events have included faculty, researchers, staff, administrators and professionals from Harvard University (Harvard Graduate School of Education, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Media Lab, The Smithsonian Institution, United Nations, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), United States Department of Education, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States Department of the Interior (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), United States National Portrait Gallery (NPG), Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Stanford University, Cornell University, Boston College, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Southern California (USC), Columbia University Teachers College (TC), University of Maryland (UMD), Duke University, Amherst College, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Twitter, Disney, Oracle, Computerworld, University of Oxford, University of Zurich, Italian Ministry of Education National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research (INDIRE), the Louvre Museum and Palace of Versailles, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Sorbonne University (France), Keio University (Japan), Nippon TV (Japan), National University of Singapore (NUS), Government of New South Wales (Australia), Israel Ministry of Education MOFET Institute (Israel), University of Glasgow (UK), European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padua, Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland), Trinity College (Ireland), University of Barcelona (Spain), Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), and many more world-class organizations detailed at https://summit.ImmersiveEducation.org
Immersive Education Initiative, the world's foremost experts in immersion and immersive technology, is a non-profit international collaboration of educational institutions, research institutes, museums, consortia and companies. The Initiative was established in 2005 with the mission to define and develop standards, best practices, technology platforms, training and education programs, and communities of support for virtual worlds, virtual reality, augmented and mixed reality, simulations, game-based learning and training systems, immersive teaching and immersive learning platforms, and fully immersive environments such as caves and domes.
Thousands of faculty, researchers, staff and administrators are members of the Immersive Education Initiative, who together service millions of academic and corporate learners worldwide.
Collaborators and Summit speakers include faculty, researchers, graduate students, and executives from the world's leading academic and cultural organizations, universities, and companies, such as United Nations, United States Department of Education, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The Smithsonian Institution, Stanford University, NASA, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Twitter, Disney, Oracle, Computerworld, Italian Ministry of Education, the Louvre Museum and Palace of Versailles, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Sorbonne University (France), Keio University (Japan), Nippon TV (Japan), National University of Singapore (NUS), Government of New South Wales (Australia), Israel Ministry of Education, University of Glasgow (UK), European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padua, Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland), Trinity College (Ireland), University of Barcelona (Spain), Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), and many more world-class organizations
United Nations, Knowledge Foundation and DFINITY Join Forces
Three-year Partnership To Fundamentally Transform Education
09 April 2024 — Today, during his opening address at the 2024 Blockchain in Education Summit at Oxford University, Immersive Education Initiative and Knowledge Foundation Director Aaron E. Walsh announced the formation of a three-year partnership between the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Knowledge Foundation and DFINITY Foundation. Together the organizations will fundamentally transform the way in which learners, educators, and educational content creators acquire, distribute and generate knowledge via Knowledge Token® and the Internet Computer platform.
Over the coming three years the partner organizations will co-develop an innovative suite of technology products to educate participants on anti-corruption topics through a series of unique hackathon (coding competition) events under the UNODC Coding4Integrity youth hackathon framework. The hackathons, of which four will occur each year for the coming three years, achieve this through the ongoing development of Knowledge Token® on the Internet Computer blockchain platform.
The 2024 Oxford Hackathon that commenced today marks the inception of the three-year partnership between UNODC, Knowledge Foundation, and DFINITY Foundation.
How To Participate
To participate as a collaborator, or to host or sponsor the hackathons or related events, please contact a Knowledge Foundation Director.
UNODC
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is the United Nations agency mandated to support Member States on topics related to crime prevention and criminal justice. In so doing, UNODC works with Member States to contribute to global peace and security, human rights and development by making the world safer from drugs, crime, corruption and terrorism. Furthermore, UNODC plays a key role in promoting multilateral action when it comes to preventing and responding to crime as it acts as Secretariat of relevant intergovernmental bodies and supports States in the implementation of international standards.
Knowledge Foundation
The Knowledge Foundation is an educational organization responsible for the design, development, deployment and ongoing maintenance of the global Knowledge Token system and related open international standards for blockchain technology in the field of education.
Knowledge Token® is intellectual currency and, as such, may be used to pay for goods and services such as mobile phones, tablets, computers, games, textbooks, tuition and more. As an incentive and participation token that is awarded to learners in exchange for intellectual achievements, while privately and securely recording corresponding academic progress, Knowledge Tokens are issued in amounts that correspond to the units or amounts of knowledge, skills and/or credits that learners earn.
DFINITY Foundation
DFINITY Foundation is a contributor to the Internet Computer blockchain, a decentralized public compute platform. Leveraging the Internet Computer, the team is developing the Knowledge Token® system and protocol. The Internet Computer enables creation of software directly on the public blockchain, eliminating the need of any trusted intermediaries. It also facilitates integration with external web services and supports on-chain execution of AI models. In pursuit of this vision, DFINITY Foundation will collaborate with UNODC and Knowledge Foundation on hosting a series of hackathons at prominent universities worldwide, fostering collaboration between academics and software engineers to advance the project’s shared goals.
World-renowned Speakers
Speakers at Immersive Education events have included faculty, researchers, staff, administrators and professionals from Harvard University (Harvard Graduate School of Education, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Media Lab, The Smithsonian Institution, United Nations, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), United States Department of Education, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), United States Department of the Interior (DOI) National Park Service (NPS), United States National Portrait Gallery (NPG), Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Stanford University, Cornell University, Boston College, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Southern California (USC), Columbia University Teachers College (TC), University of Maryland (UMD), Duke University, Amherst College, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Twitter, Disney, Oracle, Computerworld, University of Oxford, University of Zurich, Italian Ministry of Education National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research (INDIRE), the Louvre Museum and Palace of Versailles, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Sorbonne University (France), Keio University (Japan), Nippon TV (Japan), National University of Singapore (NUS), Government of New South Wales (Australia), Israel Ministry of Education MOFET Institute (Israel), University of Glasgow (UK), European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padua, Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland), Trinity College (Ireland), University of Barcelona (Spain), Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), and many more world-class organizations detailed at https://summit.ImmersiveEducation.org
PRESS CONTACT
Annelise Martson
Immersive Education Initiative
https://ImmersiveEducation.org
annelise.martson@ImmersiveEducation.org
Millions of Learners Worldwide
Immersive Education Initiative, the world's foremost experts in immersion and immersive technology, is a non-profit international collaboration of educational institutions, research institutes, museums, consortia and companies. The Initiative was established in 2005 with the mission to define and develop standards, best practices, technology platforms, training and education programs, and communities of support for virtual worlds, virtual reality, augmented and mixed reality, simulations, game-based learning and training systems, immersive teaching and immersive learning platforms, and fully immersive environments such as caves and domes.
Thousands of faculty, researchers, staff and administrators are members of the Immersive Education Initiative, who together service millions of academic and corporate learners worldwide.
Collaborators and Summit speakers include faculty, researchers, graduate students, and executives from the world's leading academic and cultural organizations, universities, and companies, such as United Nations, United States Department of Education, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The Smithsonian Institution, Stanford University, NASA, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Twitter, Disney, Oracle, Computerworld, Italian Ministry of Education, the Louvre Museum and Palace of Versailles, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), Sorbonne University (France), Keio University (Japan), Nippon TV (Japan), National University of Singapore (NUS), Government of New South Wales (Australia), Israel Ministry of Education, University of Glasgow (UK), European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padua, Italy), University of Zurich (Switzerland), Trinity College (Ireland), University of Barcelona (Spain), Italian National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), and many more world-class organizations
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