By exploring the intersection of the rapidly changing worlds of business, technology and social good, this course is designed to help you to prototype innovative solutions that address the most pressing challenges in the lives of vulnerable children.

The course is Intended for policy-makers, decision-makers, innovators and ecosystem builders who wish to build thriving entrepreneurial communities that can navigate technological revolutions and create competitive ICT industries. The course introduces key terminologies, concepts, tools and steps to assess your country's innovation capacity through practical information. Upon completion of the course, you will understand: Innovation, digital ecosystems and digital transformation, and their relationship to national development priorities.

The course aims at helping learners to master the core components of the ITU Digital Skills Toolkit 2024 and to be able to design a national digital skills strategy roadmap based on the recommendations of the Digital Skills Toolkit, with the objective to develop or improve their national digital skills policies and programmes.

During this 8-hour deep dive, you will be introduced to the key techniques, services, and trends that will help you understand foundation models from the ground up. This means breaking down theory, mathematics, and abstract concepts combined with hands-on exercises to gain functional intuition for practical application. Throughout the course, we focus on a wide spectrum of progressively complex generative AI techniques, giving you a strong base to understand, design, and apply your own models for the best performance. We’ll start with recapping foundation models, understanding where they come from, how they work, how they relate to generative AI, and what you can to do customize them. You’ll then learn about picking the right foundation model to suit your use case.