• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Avinash Meetoo

Avinash Meetoo

Let us build a Smart Mauritius together

  • Home
  • About
  • Curriculum Vitae

How to Embrace Artificial Intelligence in Academia and the implications for universities

12 July 2023 By Avinash Meetoo Leave a Comment

On 12 July 2023, I gave a keynote presentation on “How to Embrace Artificial Intelligence in Academia and the implications for universities” during a workshop on “Artificial Intelligence and AI Text Generators such as ChatGPT” organised by the University of Technology, Mauritius.

I spoke about Research & development perspectives for academics and on the need to solve big and real problems instead of having fun with toys. I spoke about the need for more collaborative work, on the optimal use of technology and innovation as catalysts of development and on how technology and AI can be used in education.

There are many structural problems in Mauritius such as the fact that the population is ageing, that there is a lack of workforce and talent at all levels, and I put a lot of emphasis on the immense role universities have to play in creating the workforce of tomorrow and the future. Or else…

I also briefly touched upon jobs in entertainment which will abound in the future because of the amount of leisure time we have now.

There were many people attending, among which a lot of academic and non-academic staff of the University of Technology, Mauritius. There were also people from the education sector but from other institutions as well as a few foreign students.

The feedback I got at the end was very positive.

Filed Under: Computing, Education, Future, Science, Society, Technology

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Search

I am proud of

My family
My company
My music
My photos

Related Posts

  • Interesting Tech Jobs of the Future (for Mauritius)
  • Software Engineering needs to be taught by Software Engineers
  • The Digital Economy: Challenges and Opportunities in Research for Mauritius
  • Building a GRassroot Innovation Database (GRID) for Seychelles, Mauritius and Rodrigues

I am active on

Facebook
FB Page
Twitter
LinkedIn
Reddit
Hacker News
Stack Overflow
GitHub
Wikipedia
YouTube
IMDB
Last.fm

Random Posts

  • Mauritius, Rodrigues and Seychelles now have their UNDP Accelerator Lab
  • The new Mauritian National Identity Card
  • My interactive session on Innovation during Infotech / Innovtech 2017
  • Métro léger: des personnes de bonne volonté requises

All posts

  • April 2025 (1)
  • March 2025 (1)
  • February 2025 (2)
  • January 2025 (4)
  • December 2024 (4)
  • November 2024 (2)
  • October 2024 (1)
  • September 2024 (4)
  • July 2024 (1)
  • June 2024 (1)
  • May 2024 (4)
  • March 2024 (1)
  • February 2024 (1)
  • January 2024 (1)
  • December 2023 (2)
  • November 2023 (2)
  • October 2023 (2)
  • August 2023 (2)
  • July 2023 (3)
  • June 2023 (3)
  • May 2023 (4)
  • April 2023 (1)
  • March 2023 (3)
  • January 2023 (1)
  • December 2022 (1)
  • November 2022 (5)
  • September 2022 (2)
  • June 2022 (2)
  • May 2022 (1)
  • April 2022 (1)
  • January 2022 (3)
  • November 2021 (1)
  • September 2021 (1)
  • June 2021 (3)
  • April 2021 (1)
  • February 2021 (1)
  • January 2021 (2)
  • November 2020 (1)
  • October 2020 (1)
  • September 2020 (1)
  • August 2020 (1)
  • May 2020 (1)
  • April 2020 (3)
  • March 2020 (4)
  • January 2020 (1)
  • July 2019 (1)
  • June 2019 (1)
  • April 2019 (2)
  • January 2019 (1)
  • December 2018 (3)
  • November 2018 (1)
  • September 2018 (1)
  • August 2018 (1)
  • April 2018 (1)
  • December 2017 (1)
  • November 2017 (1)
  • October 2017 (1)
  • August 2017 (1)
  • July 2017 (1)
  • May 2017 (1)
  • March 2017 (1)
  • February 2017 (1)
  • August 2016 (1)
  • July 2016 (1)
  • June 2016 (3)
  • April 2016 (3)
  • March 2016 (3)
  • February 2016 (1)
  • December 2015 (1)
  • November 2015 (1)
  • October 2015 (1)
  • August 2015 (5)
  • June 2015 (1)
  • September 2013 (2)

Copyright © 2025 by Avinash Meetoo · Shared under an Attribution 4.0 International Creative Commons license · Log in