Egyptian AI and education pioneer, Marwa Saudi, has won the 2024 Business Innovation Award for Women in Berlin, Germany.
Saudi received the award in Berlin from Germany’s First Lady, Britta Ernst, wife of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as part of an initiative by the Women’s Business Network (WiB). Marwa Saudi told Deutsche Welle on Thursday that the network includes businesswomen from Germany, Egypt, Tunisia, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Lebanon, and Algeria, and that the award recognizes women entrepreneurs who use and develop technology.
Saudi, a member of the Alexandria Businesswomen’s Association, was nominated for the award as an engineer and leading expert in AI and educational technology in Africa.
Innovative E-Learning Platform
Saudi founded “IdeasGym,” an innovative e-learning platform that uses novel methods to build children’s capacities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The platform specializes in teaching STEM subjects, including robotics, programming, mobile applications, electronics, Arduino, and the Internet of Things.
The platform integrates AI, game-based learning analytics, gamification, hybrid communication, and educational care applications to support students throughout their learning journey, according to Saudi.
The platform has achieved notable success, with its “Online Lego Robotics” course using virtual reality winning second place in the UN Innovation Lab Challenge in Espoo, Finland.
Teaching AI
Saudi also won first place in the small and medium enterprises category at the Women in ICT Awards, hosted by the United Nations Development Program and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
One of Saudi’s courses on teaching AI and robotics was listed by UNESCO in 2020 as one of the innovative courses in AI education.
Currently, Marwa Saudi is pursuing her PhD at Tallinn University in Estonia, focusing on responsible green AI and building a reliable AI ecosystem for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Business Innovation Award for Women in Germany 2024
