Kakao Impact Foundation Hosts Final Round of National Senior AI Golden Bell
TECHWORLD ·
✦ AI Summary
The Kakao Impact Foundation announced on the 15th that it had held the final round of the "National Senior AI Golden Bell."
The competition was held as a linked event in the senior category of the private-sector track of the Ministry of Science and ICT's "National AI Competition," and 64 people advanced to the final round after nationwide preliminaries among program graduates aged 60 and older.
The final round was held online connecting Kakao Pangyo Agora and 16 senior welfare centers nationwide, and the Cheongju Naedeok Senior Welfare Center team was selected as the Minister of Science and ICT Award winner.
The Kakao Impact Foundation announced on the 15th that it had held the final round of the "National Senior AI Golden Bell." The competition was run as a linked event in the senior category of the private-sector track of the "National AI Competition" hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT. The Kakao Impact Foundation served as the organizer, with the Ministry of Science and ICT, Kakao, and Kakao Pay as sponsors, and the Korea Senior Welfare Center Association and the Senior Financial Education Council as partners.
Since 2024, the Kakao Impact Foundation has operated the "Senior Digital School on the Road." The program was conducted by visiting senior welfare centers and providing AI literacy education. Participants in this competition were people aged 60 and older who completed the program, and 64 seniors selected through nationwide preliminaries advanced to the final round.
The event was organized to help seniors strengthen their AI utilization skills and to confirm their learning outcomes. In the final round, participants competed in AI and digital usage skills. Through the competition, the Kakao Impact Foundation aimed to connect the educational content with practical use and turn it into an experience of achievement.
The preliminaries were held from May 29 to October 6 at 150 senior welfare centers nationwide, with about 3,000 participants. In the preliminaries, AI and digital capabilities were evaluated, including use of public services, Kakao services, and "ChatGPT for Kakao," and 16 regional representative institutions were selected as finalists. A total of 64 people advanced to the final round, 4 from each institution, and the average age of the finalists was 71.9.
The final round was held as a dual live broadcast connecting Kakao Pangyo Agora and 16 senior welfare centers nationwide online. The final questions were organized into three stages and covered basic AI knowledge, AI and digital daily-life and safety knowledge, and hands-on practice using ChatGPT for Kakao.
In the final round, the Cheongju Naedeok Senior Welfare Center team was selected as the winner of the top prize, the Minister of Science and ICT Award. An AI Special Award was also selected, with the finalists directly evaluating team photos created using AI.
The Kakao Impact Foundation said it plans to expand AI education for seniors following this competition. It intends to broaden its programs beyond the existing completion-based format to include practical use and achievement, and to continue promoting the "Senior Digital School on the Road" for this purpose.
The Kakao Impact Foundation said the "Senior Digital School on the Road" is designed to support seniors' use of AI in daily life and reduce the digital divide. Lee Seok-young, chair of the Kakao Impact Foundation, said the foundation aims to create opportunities for seniors nationwide to learn AI, use it directly, and gain confidence, and also expressed its commitment to supporting more seniors in using AI in daily life and narrowing the digital divide.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=408386
References
This article was produced with the help of an automated content generation algorithm.
Source: TECHWORLD
View originalThis article was summarized and organized by BizCrush based on the original article from TECHWORLD. For exact quotations and full details, please refer to the original article.