On September 21, 2024, the HKU Centennial Campus came alive with the bustling energy of enthusiastic students who gathered for the Hackathon Launch Day from across four universities. The hackathon will be a 1-month competition that culminates in the final demo and presentation day on the 19 October 2024. The day began with participant…
In partnership with the Children’s Tumour Foundation of Australia, HKU students are leveraging AI-powered multilingual health translation and learning about written and digital literacies at the same time. By translating complex medical information on Neurofibromatosis into accessible formats for minority populations, our students experimented with the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence for community impact. The…
In collaboration with the Common Core, the Centre for Applied English Studies, and local NGOs, HKU students traveled to non-profit schools in Mae Sot on the Thai-Myanmar border to engage young Burmese students who had fled the civil war in Myanmar. Through hands-on workshops, HKU students empowered these resilient students to develop essential digital communication…
As a collaboration with the HKUST Centre for Language Education, students learned to use their voice, different podcast formats, and the process of transforming ideas to professional podcast episodes under the title Hanging in the Imbalance. Exploring gender equality through the podcasting medium, it features conversations around gender reassignment and dysphoria, intergenerational issues around women and…
The project supported the Nyamirambo Women’s Center, an NGO in Rwanda that provides education and support to women who have been affected by these issues of domestic violence and discrimination. The NGO earns some income by selling the products tailored by the women they support, as well as conducting a Nyamirambo walking tour business and…
In collaboration with the University of Basel, this storytelling project explored women’s experiences of COVID-19 in Hong Kong in relation to gender equality. Students explored the concept of gender, the meanings of “woman”, diversity of women, and what the experience of living as a woman is like in Hong Kong, developed an understanding of gender…