The G7 Leaders’ Summit in June 2024 welcomed the Italian Presidency’s decision to establish the AI Hub for Sustainable Development, in collaboration with UNDP. As affirmed in the G7 Leaders’ Declaration, the AI Hub aims to enable multi-stakeholder partnerships to support local AI digital ecosystems, strengthen capacities to advance AI for sustainable development, and complement existing initiatives including the AI for Development Donors Partnership. This is the first public report on the co-design of the AI Hub. It lays out initial suggestions and consolidated feedback from local AI ecosystems to understand opportunities and enhance ongoing AI development initiatives underway.
- Document Type
- Report
- Pages
- 68
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 3
- Executive Summary 5
- Introducing the AI Hub for Sustainable Development 8
- 1.1 What is the AI Hub 9
- Introducing the AI Hub for Sustainable Development 9
- 1.2 Growing together The need for the AI Hub 11
- 1.3 The focus of the AI Hub 20242025 The GROW approach 13
- Research Pillars of AI Development 19
- Research Pillars of AI Development 20
- Three Pillars of AI Development 20
- An enabling ecosystem Unbundling AI risks 22
- 2.1 DATA 26
- Data in Africa 26
- 2.2 COMPUTE 34
- Compute in Africa 35
- State of Compute 43
- 2.3 TALENT 45
- Talent in Africa 45
- Looking forward 58
- Acknowledgements 61
- Endnotes 62