NEC partners with Senegal and Japan-based firms to boost digital skills through vocational training
Newly launched History AI Chat provides guided help for students using World History Encyclopaedia
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NEC partners with Senegal and Japan-based firms to boost digital skills through vocational training
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EC Corporation has signed a Memorandum of
Cooperation with the Senegalese government, the Senegal-Japan Vocational Training Centre( CFPT-SJ), the Japan International Cooperation Agency( JICA) and four Japan-based companies to strengthen vocational training in Senegal, with a strong focus on digital technology.
Under the memorandum, NEC, Toyota Tsusho, Daikin, Toda Construction and Yamaha will provide training programmes to CFPT-SJ to help develop highly skilled industrial human resources. NEC will focus on digital solutions aimed at improving crop productivity, enhancing farming practices and advancing universal health coverage, aligning with Senegal’ s development goals and Japan’ s Country Assistance Policy.
Established in 1984 with JICA support, CFPT-SJ has become a regional hub for technical training. As Senegal seeks to expand its Digital Transformation, demand is growing for more sophisticated digital and industrial skills.
The collaboration sets out clear roles: the Senegalese government will support CFPT-SJ, JICA will coordinate between Japan and Senegal, and the five companies will design and deliver programmes in their areas of expertise.
Signing ceremony for the Memorandum of Cooperation at the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development
Through this initiative, NEC aims to deepen the understanding of digital technologies, while reinforcing its partnership with JICA to roll out solutions in agriculture and healthcare across Africa. The project highlights how global partnerships can accelerate digital skills development and prepare workforces for the region’ s economic future.
Newly launched History AI Chat provides guided help for students using World History Encyclopaedia
W orld History Encyclopaedia has launched a new History AI Chat to guide enquiry-based engagement with the Encyclopedia’ s corpus of history materials. With the Chat tool, students and teachers can more easily sift through the over 23,000 peer-reviewed and unbiased resources and primary sources in the Encyclopedia’ s database as well as Open University’ s CORE Index of 420 million academic papers.
When asked a question, the History AI Chat returns a brief answer, usually in a list, along with the links to each cited source and additional sources that present a more complete picture. Answers are brief so that students need to investigate all the sources to get the full answer. They can explore and learn, not simply focus on the shortest path to an answer.
“ Enquiry-based learning is a powerful way to learn history but it is being lost in the quick-answer world of AI. We worked very closely with teachers and college-level faculty to make sure that the History AI Chat is a learning tool, not an answer tool. Its purpose is to guide investigation and the study of multiple viewpoints to questions about history,” said Jan van der Crabben, Founder & CEO of World History Encyclopedia.
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