Governments worldwide face a common challenge: how to deliver better public services with tighter budgets. Artificial intelligence offers a potentially game-changing answer.<\/p>\n
We are already seeing governments at all levels experiment with innovative AI solutions to challenges ranging from processing patents faster, to vetting fraudulent benefit claims, to fixing potholes quicker. Each week, we see new AI-enabled solutions being deployed by public sector institutions.<\/p>\n
While this technology is potentially transformative for governments at every stage of development, no group may be better positioned to seize the opportunity than developing countries.<\/p>\n
Why? Because unlike developed economies that are often dependent on legacy IT systems and bespoke government software, developing countries typically don’t have that burden. Much as emerging markets were often faster to adopt mobile telecommunications, AI offers another chance for developing country governments to \u201cleapfrog\u201d ahead. They can build new, AI-optimized systems from scratch, bypassing the long and expensive process of modernizing outdated infrastructure, and they can build solutions that better align with their bespoke needs.<\/p>\n
Creating a triple-win for developing countries with AI<\/p>\n