kama.ai is pleased to announce that a consortium led by Commnunity Circle, and including Transform Interactive, BI Pure Water, University of British Columbia, and kama.ai, developed and launched an interactive Operator Walkthrough Lab (OWL) water plant operator training application. OWL allows Indigenous community members to gain experience in water plant operations without leaving their communities thereby reducing the barriers to community-based capacity building.
This project was funded by Canada’s Digital Supercluster for Training and Development, with all proponents also providing in-kind contributions to develop and deliver the application. kama.ai‘s contribution to the project was a Virtual Support Assistant (‘Ask OWL’) that is launched from within the training application to answer questions and bring users to relevant sections of the application to learn about the water training topics. The application is available for download free of charge in the iTunes Store and Google Play Store.
In addition to the Virtual Support Assistant (VSA) development, kama.ai also provided kama DEI training to 8 individuals, including 5 Indigenous students, on adding new questions and answers to the VSA using kama DEI’s accessible zero-code natural language environment.
Details of the project, including the success milestones, can be viewed at the government’s website at this link.