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Analysis No. 026
Argument
Sound pedagogy, but guidance alone will not reach low-resource classrooms: UNESCO’s new media and information literacy guide needs funded rollout, local compute, data safeguards and binding commitments from governments and platform operators.
Decisions and reports, newest first, with the institution, government or company behind each. Argued pieces are under Analysis.
The record No. 001 to No. 026: 26 briefs since 17 Oct 2026, citing 56 sources and naming 17 organisations.
Analysis of what international decisions mean for developing economies, argued from the documents themselves.
An AIFOD expert panel rejected granting legal rights to artificial intelligence, arguing that safeguarding human welfare and corporate accountability must remain paramount.
UN Trade and Development urged investment in skills and wider infrastructure at the World Investment Forum, where the ITU noted Africa and Latin America hold only 3.3% of global data centre capacity.
Major international conferences and summits on AI and its governance: the next 6 of 50 in our calendar. 3 meetings in session today.
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AIFOD Weekly AI Review #36: America says no to data centres. Is the Global South next in line?
Opens 14 Nov
Online · Zoom · 09:00–10:00 CET
| When | Meeting | Where |
|---|---|---|
| in session | ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2026 (PP-26)ITU | Doha, QatarMiddle East |
| in session | AI Asia SummitSLASSCOM | Colombo, Sri LankaAsia |
| in session | Solidarity AI 2026Platform Cooperativism Consortium | Bangkok, ThailandAsia |
| AIFOD Weekly AI Review #36: America says no to data centres. Is the Global South next in line?AIFOD affiliated | Online · Zoom · 09:00–10:00 CET | |
| Africa Tech Festival 2026Informa | Cape Town, South Africa | |
| Bengaluru Tech Summit 2026Government of Karnataka | Bengaluru, IndiaAsia |
affiliated Organised by AIFOD, the forum with which this journal is affiliated. Such meetings take their place in date order like any other; they are never moved up the list.
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Summaries of AI-related decisions and reports from the UN, World Bank, AU, ITU, OECD and others, each linked to the original.
5 briefs
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AI strategies, laws and regulators in developing countries.
7 briefs
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Data centres, energy, water and connectivity: who builds, who pays, who benefits.
5 briefs
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Analysis of what international decisions mean for developing economies, argued from the documents themselves.
7 briefs
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A library of key AI policy documents with one-paragraph summaries.
3 briefs
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A library of key AI policy documents with one-paragraph summaries.
No. 003
OECD ·
The OECD has released a policy brief urging governments to treat AI compute as critical infrastructure, and calling for knowledge sharing with developing and emerging economies.
No. 009
World Bank ·
The World Bank Group has published its first Digital and AI Strategy, pledging to connect one billion people in developing economies to digital and AI tools by 2030.