San Francisco 80 years later: UNDP convenes a world convention of AI personal sector leaders from Africa and G7 international locations with the G7 Italian Presidency and as a part of the Italy-Africa Mattei Plan
SAN FRANCISCO, 14th November 2024 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- This week, the United Nations’ main improvement company (UNDP) and the G7 Italian Presidency, together with a delegation of personal sector leaders from the African continent, is assembly with G7 AI leaders in San Francisco, hosted by the Italy Consul General in San Francisco with Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MMIT), InnoVit and CDP. With the UNDP delegation led by the Chief Digital Officer Robert Opp, and the Italy delegation led by Fausta Bergamotto, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy the target is obvious: we should bend the arc of AI collectively to learn sustainable improvement in Africa.
The AI Hub for Sustainable Development is co-led by UNDP and Italy’s MMIT. Following the G7 Leaders Declaration, the Hub goals to co-create modern partnerships, options, and investments between G7 and Africa’s personal sector to remodel power, agriculture, well being, water, schooling and coaching, and infrastructure in Africa.
This worldwide convention targeted on 4 key areas of alternatives for improvement: 1) inclusive and consultant datasets together with low resourced languages, 2) native AI expertise improvement throughout Africa in international locations, 3) accessible and inexpensive inexperienced computing infrastructure, and 4) enabling environments for accountable AI adoption.
As historical past was written in 1945 through the drafting of the UN Charter in San Francisco that gave beginning to the United Nations, this worldwide convention lays the fertile floor to anchor sustainable improvement on the coronary heart of AI personal sector globally and in Africa – and collectively transfer past goodwill and commitments to impactful, scalable partnerships with the personal sector for AI-led industrial progress, one the place Africa is an equal associate for years to come back.
Leaders from the Italian authorities, UNDP, and Silicon Valley’s funding group commented on the importance of the G7 Italian Presidency Special Event:
Vincenzo Del Monaco, Minister Plenipotentiary on the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy and Co-chair of the G7 Digital and Tech Working Group:
“True to the spirit of the Italy-Africa Mattei plan, we need to ensure AI is an equal partnership opportunity with Africa. The AI Hub is a space for collective action with the pivotal role of the G7 and African industry.”
Keyzom Massally, Head of Digital & AI Programmes, UNDP:
“Sustainable development is facing multidimensional crises of trust and innovations that do not put people at the center of AI. Building on the AI commitments of G7 countries, we must convene in shared spaces to understand, learn, and co-create, and go beyond the status quo of global AI development. This is the goal of the AI Hub for Sustainable Development. Coming to San Francisco with African private sector leaders is a demonstration of how we must go beyond dialogue to people-focused impact for development at scale.”
Ali Diallo, CEO and Founder, Aurion Capital:
“With Aurion Capital, we are mobilizing capital to invest in AI-enabled companies supporting rural and emerging economies and at the same time, educating local stakeholders around ways to attract the right kinds of investments in the form of public, private, and institutional capital to solve challenges in key sectors like healthcare and energy. Our funds are committed to empowering startups and innovation-driven enterprises that build transformational digital solutions that strengthen the footprint of America and of its allies on the international stage. Investing in critical digital infrastructure in an ever-changing geo-political landscape requires strong collaborations between all stakeholders; as a result, we are seeing significant interest from American investors and companies to build stronger bridges across Rural America and international markets such Italy and Africa through partnerships with local entrepreneurs and government agencies to ensure long term growth and sustainability.”
Some notable African leaders working on the country-level for improvement on the worldwide convention embody: Tonee Ndungu, Founder, Kytabu; Alex Tsado, Founder and CEO, Ahura AI; Houda Ghozzi, CEO, Open Startup International; Daniel Boateng, Venture Talent Specialist, The Future List; and Sam Yala, President of the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).
Distributed by African Media Agency (AMA) on behalf of Aurion Capital
About the International Conference: Growing Together – Innovitsf
About UNDP: https://www.undp.org/about-us
About the AI Hub for Sustainable Development: https://www.aihubfordevelopment.org/about
About Aurion Capital: https://www.aurioncapital.com
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