The first meeting of ALBA-TCP science and technology ministers is being held in Caracas, Venezuela, as part of regional integration efforts. teleSUR
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00:00We go live with ALBA TCP where it's being held in Caracas, a meeting of the
00:08ministers and high authorities of the scientific and technological area of the
00:12organization. Let's listen. So we have to create with our own capacities
00:23technological sovereignty that allows to improve our lives, starting from
00:29technology, and protect our peoples from technologies. I want to give the award, of
00:35course, that is the one that is going to lead the meeting, our Minister of Science
00:41and Technology, our sister Gabriela. Thank you very much.
00:47Buenos dias. You're welcome. Good morning. Welcome to BolĂvar's home.
00:56All guests and brothers from here, from Latin America and the Caribbean, be
01:06welcome. President Nicolás Maduro sends greetings to all of you and to
01:15speak of science is to talk about a field that is in dispute in this time.
01:18It's a challenge of the fourth and fifth revolution of knowledge, where technological
01:26hegemons and capital and domination strategies and globalization comes
01:34together. Our peoples, our communities, our women and children deserve a good
01:45science with a purpose, a scientific investigation thought from our own
01:50territories, and of course that answers to the needs of the future of our
01:55communities, but also the opportunity to integrate to production
02:03processes that allow for the development of abilities, which are hard from the
02:10point of view of technologies, from the ethical point of view, to guarantee the
02:13men and women for the Latin American and Caribbean. And of course it's very
02:19important for ALBA-TCP to think about the creation of an institution for the
02:25development of interfacial and inter- artificial intelligence. It's special,
02:30difficult for countries that are blocked, because these technologies are blocked
02:35for our republics, so to create the capacities today is a construction for
02:40the future, is to focus on young men and women, kindness and knowledge and
02:46creativity, to go over the challenges and to attend to the problems
02:54that our peoples face. President Nicolás Maduro presented in a summit the
02:59proposal to create a center for the investigation and development of
03:03artificial intelligence, which is today in development, in construction, in
03:08Venezuela, as a part for the construction and the integration of the
03:15peoples of ALBA, for the modernity of all ages, from the early ages, from for the
03:21for the training of our professionals in engineering, in science of data and
03:27cybersecurity, in automatization and robotics, that allow us to promote the
03:34capacities of young generations that are the ones that have to leave this
03:38digital era. They are the natives of the digital era and they must be trained in
03:44these capacities, in these abilities. And the proposal to create the
03:50development and has to have the platform for the production of our productive
03:56activities and in terms of digital platforms and the health of our people,
04:02to optimize the studies of epidemics and treatments of diagnosis,
04:07knowing today that all these go through tools that digitalize images and
04:14automize everything that has to do with diagnostics. For example,
04:20artificial intelligence can diagnose 98% of heart attacks and this is
04:28very important because the main cause of death in our countries has to do with
04:33blood pressure and heart attacks. So the opportunity that we have to increase the
04:40ability of our peoples in the creation of a center that can work together in a
04:45network for the production in the industry of our nations, is of course to
04:49create that complementarity that is needed to promote the training of the
04:54talents and develop the tools that come to our own languages and culture for the
05:01well-being but also to think of a structure of a fourth level where we can
05:06train postgraduate trainings for specialized professionals depending on
05:12the strategies that has to do with quantum computing. This is going to be
05:17the year of quantum computing and in the next decades is going to be a conflict
05:22between artificial intelligence and quantum computing to provide support for
05:27the great mining of data that is being generated and that's going to require
05:33energy and it's going to require energy, talent, intelligence, but above all the
05:39will of our people to build an ethical exercise of a science that contributes
05:45to life and to the development of progress that our alliance deserves. And
05:50in particular I put the example of what Venezuela has been doing at the order of
05:55President Nicolás Maduro. We have a program of initiation of science in
06:00early ages that has over 300,000 children at the national level. 53% of
06:07these populations are women, are girls, between 12 and 18 years of age. These
06:17children are receiving a special training in physics, robotics,
06:21mathematics, electronics, programming and astronomy to stimulate talent, to
06:28stimulate the imagination and creativity, to build an intelligence and a perfect
06:34intelligence with a sense of belonging and identity. This scientific seat called
06:41like this by President Nicolás Maduro now has a higher instance which is the
06:45University of Sciences created by President Nicolás Maduro on December 12
06:51last year with 13 new majors for Venezuela which I'm going to mention
06:58robotics engineering, data science engineering, cybersecurity engineering, AI
07:09engineering, molecular engineering, bioinformatics. These majors that I'm
07:20telling you use as an anchor for the development of communications and
07:24telecommunications, computing. Today we know that 128,000 species are sequenced
07:33and are developed today by algorithms of the artificial intelligence that allow
07:39us to predict diseases, proteins and molecules of future treatment. That tool
07:45of AI today belongs to corporations and is not available for the people of our
07:52region. So these majors that we are beginning in Venezuela incorporating
07:56Alba Youth can be the opportunity for us to develop our own solutions in terms of
08:02sovereignty, in terms of independence that contribute to the development
08:07economic development of the region and prosperity and health of the people that
08:13contributes to the diversification of our industries and in this exercise
08:17President Nicolás Maduro has also added national nationality sciences and
08:24biotechnologies, physics, mathematics, IT and of course is all anchoring the
08:32Venezuelan Institute of the greatest prestige for the investigation
08:36scientific investigation which are today with the fourth country in Latin
08:41America with surveillance for COVID or Opushe and flu Evienza, bird flu, which
08:50we're doing in this in the genetic study of this virus and through its computer
08:55science using biologic material. That togetherness of these majors is going to
09:04be the base of the development of the new world of the new times and the
09:09digital transformation has to be an opportunity for Alba for the growth
09:14collective growth to create new capacities in our region to guarantee
09:20that our youth remains in our territory and of course design the new cities go
09:28over the challenges of climate change. Today the forecast of the weather is
09:33also done through algorithms weather weather forecast the ability of water
09:39is all studied through satellites that use information algorithms and as our
09:49people can contribute from all these sectors from the learning from the study
09:53to promote our capacities we are going to guarantee the future the well-being
09:59that the region deserves. The proposal of President Nicolás Maduro for Alba is
10:05a proposal for constructing our future is a proposal that every president member
10:11of the Alliance has accepted with what will with the will that our young men
10:16and women scientists are trained that they don't have to travel to the old
10:21world to the universities of the old world to other education models hegemonic
10:28dominating but to have our own spaces to train these capacities with our culture
10:33with our dialogue in this exercise is also important the president also offers
10:38scholarships for the University of Sciences
10:42the establishment of the creation of their scientists for the creation of
10:49this artificial intelligence center and the opportunity to incorporate the
10:53studies the students of fourth level to professional levels that you already
10:57have at your disposal in your country for more than 25 post-grade studies that
11:02I will announce in a moment
11:12we have a post-grade study that is linked to microbiology biotechnology
11:22ecology and climate change immunology physics chemistry mathematics
11:29anthropology medical physics in nanotechnology
11:36oceanology and in regenerative medicines using mother cells Venezuela has five new
11:44protocols of therapy using mother cells chemical process and also studies in
11:54biochemistry in telecommunications and informatics science PhD studies in
12:02archaeology in chemistry and biodiversity this offer of postgraduate
12:09studies that we are proposing also by president Nicolás Maduro only needs the
12:14name of students that will come from our peoples to take up residence in the
12:20Institute for scientific studies to start receiving these lessons as soon as
12:25possible in the case of the pre-grade students as of May this year they will
12:31be available so as of May 10th we will be seeing each other's in the science
12:36university we are just waiting for the data of the students and in regards to
12:42the inauguration and functioning of the artificial intelligence center we have
12:46shared a structure in this moment of investigation and where we hope that
12:50the investigation and development of autonomous platforms created by us has
12:55to be part of the need of the main needs that they have to focus the objective of
13:02this center of investigation that from that has to do with teachings to promote
13:07the education of our people's platforms AI that are useful for public health AI
13:15platforms that are useful for commerce and tax and tourism platforms that are
13:24useful for development of engineering's and calculus for urban development for
13:30the new projects of architectural projects that we have also understanding
13:34the challenge of climate change so in this platform of development of AI
13:41Venezuela counts with over 300 professionals available to accompany
13:46all these projects that presidents of Alaba decide together with their
13:52ministers and authorities for the investigation agendas and development
13:57and the application that this center has to create located in the Miranda
14:04States and at the disposal of all the community of Alba welcome again to the
14:11home of Bolivar and also of course to the Bolivar revolution
14:21we're listening live this information coming from the Casa Maria here in
14:26Caracas where the vice president of science of Venezuela was informing about
14:30the report on the how the construction of this AI investigation center is being
14:34developed and made a call for all member regions to have people coming students
14:38coming to learn about everything that is going to happen in these projects that
14:42are going to move forward the prosperity of the region in the development of
14:46different sectors let's go back live to the signal for what is happening this
14:50Alba meeting let's go