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100 pathways for AI diffusion by 2030: A call to action

  • Date
    9 July 2026
    Timeframe
    11:30 - 12:00 CEST
    Duration
    30 minutes
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    The world’s most capable AI systems are being built and deployed at speed. They are not reaching the people who need them most. 
    For communities across the Global South, the barrier to AI adoption is not a missing model. It is that proven solutions, once deployed in one context, do not travel. Every new adopter starts from scratch. Roughly 70 percent of what blocks diffusion is systemic: whether institutions are ready to commission AI, whether the workforce can absorb it, or whether the right partners exist to deliver it. The technology itself is the smaller—and increasingly the easier— part of the problem. 
     
    In February 2026, twelve founding organizations, including Anthropic, UNDP, the Gates Foundation, Google.org, and EkStep, made a shared commitment at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi: to document and disseminate 100 reusable AI Diffusion Pathways across the Global South by 2030. 
    This session will demonstrate that AI diffusion pathways are real and working, make the case for the 100 Pathways campaign as the operational vehicle for government-backed AI diffusion, and issue a clear call to action for the next anchor partners and institutional commitments needed to move from 15 pathways to 100. 
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