‘Access to education across different cultures and languages needs to be improved’: IEEE award winner’s best work came from identifying issues, and fixing them
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The constraint on global STEM and AI talent isn’t content, it’s distribution across language, culture, and infrastructure gaps. If you’re serious about talent leverage, treat localized, low-bandwidth learning tools as core product work—not CSR—and design for the next billion engineers, not the next cohort of bootcamp grads.
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