AI governance, seen from the Global South

Briefs No. 001–027 · latest

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Our briefs and analysis on the World Health Organization (WHO): the decisions, reports and programmes on artificial intelligence it puts its name to, read for what they offer developing countries. Each piece links to the documents it draws on.

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Briefs and analysis

  1. No. 027

    World bank's 2026 warning needs donors to fund public AI

    Analysis

    Unless the World Bank, IMF, major donors and cloud providers tie finance to public control of data, sovereign compute and recurrent operating budgets, AI will scale services in the Global South while locking governments into vendor dependence and widening the World Bank’s warned productivity gap.

    Analysis

  2. No. 012

    WHO Europe adopts first regional AI health roadmap spanning 53 countries

    The WHO European Region has adopted an eight-year AI health roadmap to establish unified governance across 53 member states in Europe and Central Asia.

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