Global South cooperation takes centre stage at India AI impact summit 2026

New Delhi [India], February 16 (ANI): At the AI Impact Summit in India, policymakers and technology leaders from across the Global South have gathered to strengthen cooperation in artificial intelligence and explore collaborative pathways for economic and social development. Representatives from Indonesia, Uganda and Ghana highlighted the importance of shared learning, regulatory alignment and infrastructure partnerships as AI continues to evolve globally.

Kautsarina Adam from the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance, Indonesia, underscored the broader diplomatic and economic value of the summit.
Responding to ANI's question on the significance of the event, she said, "This kind of summit is provide like some recognition mutual agreement like what we do there to provide similar. We want to adopt AI to improve our economy and our global agreement with another country. So this is so very important to us."
"We can, benefit with AI skill improvement in education and also in awareness and also in regulatory framework. We can use data set from India," she added.

From East Africa, Irene Karungi Sekitoleko, Senior ICT Infrastructure Engineer at the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance Uganda, described AI as an emerging but promising field in her country.
"We as Uganda, we are developing governance frameworks to support, um, to see how to harness this emerging technology. We would like to learn from countries like India in line with how the governance frameworks are, how they are scaling solutions that they're developing and how are they developing solutions that are solving local contexts. We also want to develop as well, collaborations and partnerships with different countries that have come to this summit in terms of helping us address some of the challenges that we have, for example, compute power, we don't have enough infrastructure, so we want to see how best we can have partnerships in this, " she said.
"Uganda is a very good partner with India and we have lots of Indians in our country. They have developed our country economically and we look forward to even enhancing more collaboration, more partnerships and working and learning more even from the government side point of view, how can our governments work together to leverage emerging technology, " she added.
From West Africa, Maxwell Ababio, Head of Technology and Ethics at Ghana's Data Protection Commission (DPC), praised the summit's organization and the diversity of participants. He highlighted Ghana's ongoing efforts to finalize a national AI strategy and its collaboration with Rwanda through policy networks.
"I know India is doing well because I think India is part of our network and, in fact, a lot have been learned and, I think more needs to be done," he said, expressing optimism for deeper collaboration.
India's growing AI ecosystem is seen as both a partner and a model for fellow developing nations. As Global South countries push to harness AI for inclusive growth, the summit served as a platform to turn shared aspirations into actionable partnerships. (ANI)