Empowering Nations for Inclusive Prosperity in the Era of AI

This event aims to explore how international cooperation can enhance institutional readiness and strengthen national capabilities for inclusive, safe, and effective AI adoption. It will also underscore the importance of advancing multilateral cooperation and South–South exchange, enabling Global South partners to share best practices, pool resources, and drive collective innovation.

In particular, the event will focus on how Member States can create centers for exchange and cooperation and integrate these centers into a United Nations-supported network, as a new pathway to bridging AI capacity gaps. Such a network would facilitate coordination and the availability of in-kind contributions from universities, corporations, Member States, and other relevant actors, and could also undertake a range of other useful activities to build AI capacity, anchored in shared normative commitments.

As a result, the session will promote a more inclusive and collaborative model of AI capacity building, one that is bottom-up, cross-sectoral, cross-regional, and openly accessible. It will bring together representatives from governments, international organizations, academic institutions, civil society and the private sector to exchange experiences, identify priority needs, and build momentum around inclusive and collaborative approaches to AI capacity development.