WISE Awards: Highlighting the Power of AI to Bring Girls Back to School

By Huang Huizhao, Hu Xuan and Wang Xintong

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Safeena Husain, founder of the Indian nonprofit Education Girls and winner of this year’s WISE Prize for Education, speaks with reporters in Qatar in late November. Photo: Hu Xuan/Caixin

“I have never met a girl who said to me, I want to stay at home,” said Safeena Husain, founder of the Indian nonprofit Educate Girls, which has been working to get out-of-school girls back into the classroom. “Every single girl I meet wants to go to school.”

With that declaration to attendees at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in late November, Husain accepted the WISE Prize for Education, becoming the first Indian woman to receive the $500,000 award dubbed as a “Nobel” for education.