WayanAI Preparedness Index Shows Global South Is Not Ready for Artificial Intelligence Soltuions
The IMF's AI Preparedness Index destroys the comfortable fiction that Global South countries are "leapfrogging" into AI readiness. While development practitioners debate which chatbot to deploy in refugee camps or which machine learning model to pilot for crop prediction, the Index reveals that most Global South countries lack the foundational infrastructure to make any of this work sustainably. We're building AI castles on digital sand.
