Digital Progress and Trends Report: Strengthening AI Foundations

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AI Innovation

AI innovation remains highly uneven—driven largely by a few high-income countries, while most middle and low-income countries play a marginal role.

Connectivity

Connectivity, which covers reliable digital infrastructure, energy, and device access, is the indispensable baseline for AI readiness.

Compute

Compute, covering AI chips, servers, data centers, and cloud services, is increasingly becoming the “new electricity” of the AI era.

 

 

Context

Context, such as locally relevant data and content, is essential to build trusted, inclusive, and effective AI systems. 

Competency

Competency is the set of robust digital skills that are indispensable for adopting, adapting, and innovating with AI.