Supported by the Google News Initiative (GNI), the grant, according to a notice of selection by the organisation, aims to empower newsrooms to explore innovative uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in journalism.
The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, an initiative of Polis at the London School of Economics, awards grants of $50,000 or $250,000 to the chosen organisations to help them experiment, implement and share best practices of AI technologies.
As one of the two Nigerian organisations to receive the grant, The ICIR’s project will focus on experimenting with new formats across mobile video and audio.
Beneficiaries were selected from 22 countries, namely Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Jordan, Mongolia, Nigeria, Paraguay, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the United States.
According to the head of Ecosystem Investment Programmes, AI & Misinformation at GNI, Matt Cooke, the programme highlights a growing interest in responsibly integrating AI into journalism.
