Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation Council announced a request for its new flagship program, Qatar Open Innovation (QOI), in its first collaboration with AJ+, a pioneering digital news and storytelling platform within the Al Jazeera Media Network.
AJ+ wants AI to revolutionize video translation and adaptation across languages. Responsible AI is used to expedite and automate translation to make news items timely, relevant, and accessible worldwide. Proposals are due 30 October 2024.
AJ+ wants a smart translation tool that automates and streamlines translation and adaption using ethical AI that learns and aligns with its political narrative. Since the processes are manual, laborious, and inefficient, errors are likely. The proposed technologies will be integrated directly into Adobe Premiere Pro to cut development time to under an hour and protect user data privacy, transparency, security, and ethics in all operations.
AJ+, a digital news leader known for its short-form video news content, has millions of followers across social media platforms and has expanded to Arabic, Spanish, and French-language operations to reach a global audience. AJ+ wants to streamline its process to eliminate language barriers and deliver timely and relevant material to its wide international audience.
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Dr Abdelhak Belaidi, Program Manager at QRDI Council, said: “In line with our commitment to the Qatar National Vision 2030, this opportunity comes aligned with the QRDI 2030 Strategy, that focuses on digital technology as one of its five priority areas of national importance. AJ+ aims to leverage ethical AI to provide smart tools, that use machine learning. This initiative is crucial in the fast-paced world of digital news to ensure that stories have a significant impact, further solidifying Qatar’s positioning as a global hub for RDI.”
Selected ideas will collaborate with QRDI Council and AJ+ to implement and guarantee this solution meets Al Jazeera’s data privacy rules to protect user data.
“In the fast-paced world of news, timeliness is crucial. Delays in adapting our content mean that our stories lose their relevance and impact, which not only affects our audience reach and engagement but also hinders our competitive edge in the news industry. In this collaboration with QRDI, we seek to create the next generation of content adaptations, where we’ll custom build multiple tools that naturally fit into our workflow and go beyond simple translation. It’s a fantastic step towards meeting our strategic goals: being the most widely available network in the media landscape, investing in AI, and nurturing a culture of innovation,” says Alba Mora, Executive Producer at AJ+.
The Qatar Open Innovation initiative has been the main venue for startups and innovators to collaborate with government and corporate customers to develop market-ready solutions for the five national priority sectors. The QRDI Strategy 2030 identifies innovation collaborations to drive economic development in energy, health, resource sustainability, society, and digital technology.
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About QRDI Council
The Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation (QRDI) Council conducts advanced research, collaborates globally, and attracts top talent to Qatar. Working under the motto “locally empowered, globally connected,” the QRDI Council passionately promotes Qatar as a top talent destination and a cutting-edge research and development hub.
