Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Development on the Post-COVID-19 Era : A Review of National AI Strategies and Policies

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly emerged as an important topic for the global development agenda, and the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is also yielding new and innovative AI applications and solutions. However, the development of AI tech...

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spelling okr-10986-356192021-05-22T05:10:44Z Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Development on the Post-COVID-19 Era : A Review of National AI Strategies and Policies World Bank ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT DIGITAL DIVIDE AI TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION NATIONAL AI STRATEGY GOVERNANCE CIVIL SOCIETY Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly emerged as an important topic for the global development agenda, and the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is also yielding new and innovative AI applications and solutions. However, the development of AI technologies remains heavily concentrated in a small number of advanced economies which have access to a strong local talent pool, a robust research and development base and access to capital to fuel growth through investment. Many countries that have seen broad development and adoption also have a national strategic direction for AI defined by their governments. This working paper explores some of these approaches to AI across 11 countries at different stages of digital maturity and economic development, mapping initiatives to different policy domain areas and identifying the tools and instruments that have been proposed to implement AI strategies. 2021-05-21T13:33:48Z 2021-05-21T13:33:48Z 2021-05 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/487931621237422984/Harnessing-Artificial-Intelligence-for-Development-on-the-Post-COVID-19-Era-A-Review-of-National-AI-Strategies-and-Policies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35619 English Analytical Insights; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research
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topic ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT
DIGITAL DIVIDE
AI TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
NATIONAL AI STRATEGY
GOVERNANCE
CIVIL SOCIETY
spellingShingle ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT
DIGITAL DIVIDE
AI TECHNOLOGY
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
NATIONAL AI STRATEGY
GOVERNANCE
CIVIL SOCIETY
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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Development on the Post-COVID-19 Era : A Review of National AI Strategies and Policies
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description Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly emerged as an important topic for the global development agenda, and the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is also yielding new and innovative AI applications and solutions. However, the development of AI technologies remains heavily concentrated in a small number of advanced economies which have access to a strong local talent pool, a robust research and development base and access to capital to fuel growth through investment. Many countries that have seen broad development and adoption also have a national strategic direction for AI defined by their governments. This working paper explores some of these approaches to AI across 11 countries at different stages of digital maturity and economic development, mapping initiatives to different policy domain areas and identifying the tools and instruments that have been proposed to implement AI strategies.
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title Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Development on the Post-COVID-19 Era : A Review of National AI Strategies and Policies
title_short Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Development on the Post-COVID-19 Era : A Review of National AI Strategies and Policies
title_full Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Development on the Post-COVID-19 Era : A Review of National AI Strategies and Policies
title_fullStr Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Development on the Post-COVID-19 Era : A Review of National AI Strategies and Policies
title_full_unstemmed Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Development on the Post-COVID-19 Era : A Review of National AI Strategies and Policies
title_sort harnessing artificial intelligence for development on the post-covid-19 era : a review of national ai strategies and policies
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/487931621237422984/Harnessing-Artificial-Intelligence-for-Development-on-the-Post-COVID-19-Era-A-Review-of-National-AI-Strategies-and-Policies
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