Pakistani entrepreneur's chatbot 'Aurat Raaj' wins big at BAFTA

Saba Khalid and Tino Hahn's  women empowerment chatbot, Aurat Raaj, has recently won a BAFTA award.

Aurat Raaj - a digital Pakistani platform advocates for women empowerment and hopes to educate women.

The chatbot's protagonist is a character named Raaji, who tackles taboos, stereotypes and myths about sex and reproductive health of women (and men) from developing countries.

The winner of the AI: empowering the future award, founded by Grace Bian, chair of China International Culture Stock Exchange, was Aurat Raaj’s The Story of Raaji – The Ultimate Survivor https://t.co/9CUrLsXtrh https://t.co/tr5OMSnIP1

— tve (@tveinspire) November 26, 2018

Aurat Raaj was nominated in the Artificial Intelligence (AI): empowering the future category, and won the coveted tve Global Sustainability Film Award at the BAFTAs for their animated series ‘The Ultimate Survivor’.

Khalid took to Twitter and shared the picture of the accolade.

We did it!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/EBi6EC8VF0

— Saba Khalid (@S_khalid2) November 26, 2018

The tve Global Sustainability Film Awards is a film competition of sorts where institutions and companies are recognised for their efforts of portrayal of solutions for sustainability.


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