The Africa Pavilion set to light up ITU’s AI for Good Global Summit.
It is becoming clearer to the world that we can only achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 if the innovative voices of those in Africa, who are most affected by the challenges, are involved.
Africa needs to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) now for two key reasons.
For Africa, AI represents access, efficiency and a potential antidote to unemployment and underdevelopment.
By 2030, it’ll be home to 46 per cent of the world’s youth. The continent’s rapid population growth means we have to think critically about the future of work.
Secondly, its annual infrastructure spend gap is US$100 billion. It can benefit immensely from lowering these costs with transformational technologies like AI.
For Africa, AI represents access, efficiency and a potential antidote to unemployment and underdevelopment.
To maximize the effectiveness of limited resources, every organization and government seeking to meet its population’s needs should consider the power of AI to render their efforts more likely to succeed.
For example, governments can distribute the limited fertilizers they purchase to the exact farmers that need them or distribute medical drugs to the right patient populations. Companies with small budgets can adequately market to the right customers, sell more, grow their business to finally be able to create jobs for Africans.
Source- ITU
