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Foreword

The ITU Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML)
Challenges are competitions where anyone can participate
to solve problem statements to advance the achievement
of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) using AI/ML. The
competitions enable participants to connect with new partners
– and new tools and data resources – to achieve goals set out
by problem statements contributed by industry and academia.

I am pleased to say that these competitions have welcomed over
8,000 participants since their launch in 2020.

The competitions stimulate global access to AI/ML expertise
and capabilities and empower participants to create, train, and
deploy ML models by offering curated problem statements, data, technical webinars, mentoring,
and hands-on training sessions. This enhances participants' skills and global recognition and
also supports a more inclusive ITU standardization process by paving the way for participants
to make valuable contributions to ITU's specifications.

More than 70 percent of the participants in 2023 were students, with a large majority from the
African region.

To share the outcomes with the larger community, solutions submitted are shared as open
source in several repositories on the Challenge GitHub: https:// github .com/ ITU -AI -ML -in -5G
-Challenge.

This report highlights the important work of teams across the globe. It features winning solutions
that are the result of innovative approaches to solving problems with applications of AI across
several domains.

Seizo Onoe
Director
ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

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