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Emerging Markets & The AI Access Gap 🌍
Published May 10, 2026
Reading Time 6 min read
Author Omale Danjuma Ogale
The democratisation of AI is uneven. Without intentional infrastructure investment and localised model training, the gap between AI-enabled and AI-excluded economies will widen dramatically by 2030.
Approximately 26% of jobs in low-income countries are already exposed to AI displacement, yet these same regions often lack the compute resources or data sovereignty to build their own solutions.