ABSTRACT
Joseph Nsengimana is Director of the Mastercard Foundation Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning. The Mastercard Foundation is a private Canadian foundation—one of the largest in the world—with a mission to advance access to education and deepen financial inclusion. The foundation’s work has been focused on Africa since 2009, reaching hundreds of millions of people. In 2018, the foundation launched a strategy called Young Africa Works, laying out a bold plan to enable 30 million young people in Africa, particularly young women and groups facing the highest barriers to opportunity such as displaced or disabled youth, to access dignified and fulfilling work by 2030. The Mastercard Foundation Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning helps to drive this goal by advancing the use of technology to deliver at-scale access to relevant education and skills training, a precondition for dignified work. The education sector is likely to be significantly impacted by the mainstreaming of AI. This drives Mr. Nsengimana’s interest in human-centered AI.
