Pope Francis focuses his message for the day on theme ‘Artificial Intelligence and Peace’

(MissionNewswire) Salesian Missions, the U.S. growth arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, joins Catholic organizations across the globe in honoring the Catholic World Day of Peace. Every 12 months on Jan. 1, the Pope marks the day with a particular message inviting all folks to mirror on the vital work of constructing peace. Pope Paul VI established the day in 1967, after he was impressed by the encyclical “Pacem in Terris” of Pope John XXIII and just about his personal encyclical “Populorum Progressio”. The day was first noticed on Jan. 1, 1968.

Pope Francis centered his message for the day on the theme “Artificial Intelligence and Peace”, highlighting the affect this superior expertise is having on human exercise, private and social life, politics, and the economic system.

In a press release concerning the day on the Vatican web site, Pope Francis requires “an open dialogue on the meaning of these new technologies, endowed with disruptive possibilities and ambivalent effects. He recalls the need to be vigilant and to work so that a logic of violence and discrimination does not take root in the production and use of such devices, at the expense of the most fragile and excluded: injustice and inequalities fuel conflicts and antagonisms. The urgent need to orient the concept and use of artificial intelligence in a responsible way, so that it may be at the service of humanity and the protection of our common home, requires that ethical reflection be extended to the sphere of education and law.”

Technology schooling is part of the Salesian schooling curriculum. The purpose is to teach youth with Twenty first-century expertise in order that they can compete within the present job market. Having the identical entry to expertise as their friends is crucial for his or her future. Salesian college students come from poor and marginalized backgrounds and in some areas simply gaining access to primary schooling is a problem.

To mark Catholic World Day of Peace 2024, Salesian Missions is proud to spotlight packages across the globe that present life-changing schooling with a give attention to expertise.

BOLIVIA

Students in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, are constructing their expertise on new laptop tools due to a donation from Salesian Missions.

Students attending the Madre Cándida Center, positioned in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, have new laptop tools due to donor funding from Salesian Missions. The funding offered 14 new computer systems to enhance the pc laboratory which had out of date and outdated tools.

With the donation, college students at the moment are extra comfy at school and are working with tools that helps put together them for the job market and their careers. There are 125 college students who entry technical coaching provided by the middle. They take programs in reducing and gown making, complete magnificence expertise, govt secretarial work, machine embroidery, and laptop techniques. Twenty college students within the laptop techniques course will profit most from the donation.

A Salesian stated, “Our students come from low-income families from the municipalities of Yapacaní in the Ichilo province. They do not have sufficient financial resources to enter the university or emigrate to the city to be able to pursue a degree at the undergraduate level, which is why they choose to study a technical degree near their communities. We are hoping with these new computers we also will be able to increase enrollment into the computer systems course.”

INDIA

In West Bengal, India, 200 college students and lecturers took half in a hands-on mannequin for studying science, expertise, engineering and arithmetic.

St. Anthony’s School, positioned in Jaigaon in West Bengal, India, partnered with International STEAM Research to conduct a three-day DaVinci Innovation Camp for 200 lecturers and college students. STEAM is a hands-on mannequin for studying science, expertise, engineering and arithmetic.

Dr. George Panicker, founder and director of International STEAM Research and Don Bosco Kolkata alumnus, facilitated the camp. He stated, “The camp gives an insight into the much-needed paradigm shift from traditional education philosophy, based on standardized test scores, to a modern ideal which focuses on valuing the learning process as much as the results.”

Panicker added, “Both students and teachers got to understand the new teaching and learning ecosystem model for experiential learning, aligned to National Education Policy 2020.” The new schooling coverage promotes invention literacy by way of crucial considering, communication, creativity and collaboration, in addition to develops college students as future-ready drawback solvers.

MYANMAR

The 300 college students at a Salesian faculty in Myanmar have 25 laptops to assist with their schooling and the training of primary laptop expertise.

Students in a Salesian faculty in Myanmar* have laptop computer computer systems due to donor funding from Salesian Missions. Donor funding was utilized to buy 25 laptops to assist the scholars with their schooling and for them to study primary laptop expertise. The faculty arrange web and {the electrical} wiring for a brand new laptop room for the 300 college students in addition to employed expert employees to show the course.

Father Khun Myat Victor, provincial economer in Myanmar, stated, “We have just set up the computer room and the first group of young people have begun their lessons on basic computer skills.”

Myanmar has suffered political violence and instability for the reason that navy coup took over energy in February 2021. There has been ongoing violence and chaos, and faculties have been shut due to this and the COVID-19 pandemic. Salesians are opening their faculties to allow youth to get again to their schooling, which they’ve been with out for 2 years. Classes give attention to English, computer systems and math.

SPAIN

Students from the Salesian Don Bosco Center in Logroño, Spain, labored to deliver expertise to a rural village, which has no electrical energy grid and little cell community protection.

First-year college students on the Salesian Don Bosco Center in Logroño, Spain, not too long ago participated within the #HackRural coaching venture specializing in digital transformation of the agricultural village of San Martín de Jubera, which has no electrical energy grid and virtually no cell community protection. The college students are a part of twin vocation coaching on the middle and taking programs in administration of knowledge techniques in networks and growth of multiplatform functions.

The venture was organized by TICandBOT, an organization created eight years in the past by a instructor from the middle. The purpose is to show college students the best way to create a communication infrastructure, contracting the Starlink satellite tv for pc web service, at the old fashioned within the village. Students additionally discovered to develop functions as in the event that they had been in an workplace in an city surroundings. The venture mixed rural entrepreneurship, new applied sciences and academic innovation.

More than 20 venture actions had been scheduled over 4 days and included the involvement of native data and communication applied sciences corporations. In addition to growing the providers, college students had the chance to study extra concerning the group by participating in beekeeping and milking workshops, in addition to visiting the mines at Jubera.

One of the venture lecturers stated, “These were unforgettable days of shared life between students, teachers and professionals without forgetting the typical good things in the area. We want to pay credit to all the students from our school who participated in the project for their attitude, proactivity and know-how which they developed and put into practice during these days.”

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BOLIVIA: Students build skills with 14 new computers/Photo courtesy of Salesian Missions (contact for utilization permissions)

INDIA: Science and technology camp held/Photo courtesy of Don Bosco South Asia

MYANMAR: Students learn with new laptops/Photo courtesy of Salesian Missions (contact for utilization permissions)

SPAIN: Students work to bring technology to rural village/ANS Photo (utilization permissions and tips have to be requested from ANS)

Vatican – World Day of Peace 2024