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Generative AI Skills Challenge

Thank you for your interest in the Generative AI Skills Challenge!

The Challenge is looking for proposals that have the main goal of training and skilling individuals in artificial intelligence and
specifically generative AI, so they develop a foundational level of knowledge and user level proficiency in AI systems. Successful
proposals will also apply a responsible approach to the use of AI and specifically large language models.

The Challenge will award up to 5 organizations with $250,000 USD to implement their proposal by the end of June 2024. We will
consider both discrete projects and projects that further existing programs. Awardees and other high-potential proposals will
also be considered for non-financial resources, such as access to cloud computing resources, technical guidance from
Microsoft AI experts, and data training. To be considered for grant funding in addition to in-kind support, please complete the
following application questions by 7:00 pm ET on August 15, 2023.

Lead(s) of the proposed project should answer the application questions, which will take approximately 3 to 5 hours to
complete.

For more information about the challenge, including requirements, dates, phases, please visit this challenge information page.
Additional details can also be found in FAQs.

Proposal Title

Organization name

Which region is your proposal based in?

Africa

Asia

Europe

North America

Latin America

Which country is your proposal based in?

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Which region does your organization mainly operate in?

Africa

Asia

Europe

Latin America

North America

Which country does your organization mainly operate in?

What are the content areas of your proposal?

Agriculture and food security

Climate

Digital skills development

Disaster management and preparedness

Energy

Education

Financial inclusion and economic empowerment

Gender equality

Healthcare

Manufacturing and automation

...

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Challenge.

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This section seeks to understand your proposal’s solution and impact.

Note: the word counts for each answer show the maximum number of words. It is not necessary to reach the
maximum for each answer, as long as the question is fully answered.

What is the problem you are trying to solve? 300 words

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Describe your solution for solving this problem, specifying areas of innovation, if any. 400 words

What would change in the world as a result of this proposal? Include measurable outcomes where possible. 300 words

Provide an overview of how you will implement your solution, including key activities and outputs that will take place 400
during a 7–8-month period and any associated metrics you will use to evaluate whether you are meeting your words
objectives.

Describe which aspects of your proposal are experimental, if any, and why you have adopted this approach. 200 words

If your proposal is successful, approximately how many individuals (e.g., workers, job seekers, entrepreneurs, students, etc.)
will gain AI skills at the end of the 7–8-month period?

1-100

101-500

501-1000

1000+

Briefly describe how you will continue to increase the number of individuals who gain AI skills after the 7–8-month 300
project period has ended. words

Select the high-level category of the kinds of AI skills gained. 150 words
Data Collection or Management

Data Analytics

AI Fluency

Responsible AI

Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning

Other

Data Collection and/or Management: skills related to gathering, transforming, and storing data efficiently.

Data Analytics: skills involved in extracting meaning and insights from data, including visualizations.

AI fluency: skills related to understanding the fundamental concepts, principles, and applications of AI.

Responsible AI: skills related to incorporating ethical considerations, fairness, transparency, and accountability in using AI

Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning: skills related to understanding the concepts and applications of language models
such as large language models (LLMs), as well as the principles, algorithms, and techniques used in machine learning for tasks such as
pattern recognition, prediction, and decision-making.

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Localism & IDEA
This section seeks to understand your proposal’s localism and Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) features.

Note: the word counts for each answer show the maximum number of words. It is not necessary to reach the
maximum for each answer, as long as the question is fully answered.

Briefly define or describe the target community of your proposal. 200 words

Who does your proposal benefit? List all the beneficiaries

Briefly describe how the demographics of those benefiting from the proposal compare to the demographics of the 100
larger population in your geographic area. words

Briefly describe the challenges that may prevent you from achieving the proposed benefits of your proposal, including 150
any barriers to equity and access your team may need to overcome. words

In what ways will your proposal’s objectives and methods address those barriers? 150 words

Briefly describe how the proposal will conduct recruitment, engagement, and retention activities of historically 100
excluded communities. words

What sources of bias is this proposal subject to? What mitigation strategies will be employed to combat bias and 150
generate more equitable outcomes? words

Briefly describe how your proposal accommodates a wide range of individual preferences, abilities, and the need for 100
assistive technologies. words

What record does the project team / organization have of serving ethnically, racially, socioeconomically diverse, and 200
marginalized populations? If these practices are not yet in place, describe how you would use this funding to engage, words
serve, and collaborate with those populations in ways that are informed by best practices.

Responsible AI
Artificial Intelligence — and generative AI in particular — is a new and evolving technology with a number of known issues. This
section will ask you to describe your awareness of such issues and their potential impact or unintended consequences, and
any potential mitigation strategies you will employ as part of the proposal.

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Note: the word counts for each answer show the maximum number of words. It is not necessary to reach the
maximum for each answer, as long as the question is fully answered.

I confirm that the proposal meets Microsoft's Responsible AI Principles.

Describe your proposal’s relationship to artificial intelligence (and specifically generative AI, if applicable). 300 words

This could include information / skills related to AI as well as uses of AI technologies.

Does your proposal show awareness of unreliability and other issues pertaining to generative AI outputs, consider possible
ways it could be misused or abused or otherwise cause unintended harms, and propose mitigations?
Yes

No

Not sure

Not applicable

Provide details or context to the answer above. 150 words

Does your proposal show awareness of the importance of having a human-in-the-loop (HITL), human-on-the-loop (HOTL), or
human-in-command (HIC) approach, where a human expert improves the output of generative AI before it reaches the end
user?
Yes

No

Not sure

Not applicable

Provide details or context to the answer above. 150 words

Does your proposal show awareness of possible design and process features that make clear to the end user at all times that
they are dealing with AI-generated content and that this content may, therefore, be inaccurate?
Yes

No

Not sure

Not applicable

Provide details or context to the answer above. 150 words

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Does your proposal show awareness of IP issues arising from generated content, including questions of credit for the work of
any contributors?
Yes

No

Not sure

Not applicable

Provide details or context to the answer above. 150 words

Does your proposal show awareness of what could happen to personal data entered into a generative AI product and the
need for robust data protection and security policies?
Yes

No

Not sure

Not applicable

Provide details or context to the answer above. 150 words

Does your proposal address the importance of defining and assigning accountability for the outcomes of AI products and
providing redress processes that are clear and usable for cases when the use of generative AI products leads to unintended
harms?
Yes

No

Not sure

Not applicable

Provide details or context to the answer above. 150 words

Does your proposal address or acknowledge the need for additional localized and inclusive data, cultural norms or context,
and relevant standards?
Yes

No

Not sure

Not applicable

Provide details or context to the answer above. 150 words

This section seeks to understand your proposal's technical considerations.

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Note: the word counts for each answer show the maximum number of words. It is not necessary to reach the
maximum for each answer, as long as the question is fully answered.

Provide an overview of your organizational capacity to implement your proposal based on the following: Purpose, Practice,
and People.

Purpose: What is your organizational approach to data and/or data science? Includes the strategy, application, and 300
analysis of data. words

Practice: How do you plan to use data to achieve the objectives of this proposal? Includes the quality, security, and 300
technical infrastructure in place to work with data. words

People: Provide an overview of the primary lead(s) for your proposal and their relevant experience 300 words

List the partners, if any, that you have formally engaged or plan to formally engage to undertake this proposal. 150 words

Do you intend to make outputs of the proposal open source?

Yes

No

Not sure

Not applicable

Provide details or context for the answer above. 150 words

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What kind of technical assistance would you require in order to implement your proposal?
Access to Azure resources

Basic Azure set up

Azure infrastructure set up

Assistance in data preprocessing, cleaning, augmenting

Developing & fine-tuning AI models

Deploying & integrating AI models

Ensuring outputs align with requirements

LLM-related challenges

Training or workshops on best practices for AI

Other

Access to Azure computing resources for projects like training large-scale models.

Basic Azure set up, which can include Azure services onboarding and advisory services.

Azure infrastructure set up to host an application that uses LLMs in the backend.

Assistance in data preprocessing, cleaning, and augmenting to optimize model performance.

Expert guidance on topics such as developing and fine-tuning AI models.

Support in deploying and integrating AI models into existing systems or applications.

Guidance from data science experts to ensure generated outputs align with requirements.

LLM-related challenges such as using an LLM with my own dataset or mitigating recurring hallucinations/fabrications from an LLM
during a chat experience.

Training or workshops on best practices for AI, including ethical considerations and bias mitigation.

Provide details or context for the answer above. 150 words

Does your proposal intend to use any of the following technologies? If so, check all that apply.
Microsoft Azure

Github copilot

Chat GPT

Other

Provide details or context for the answer above. 150 words

Additional information (optional) 200 words

If there is any additional information that can help us understand your proposal, please add here.

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