{"id":1042045,"date":"2026-10-09T08:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042045"},"modified":"2026-10-09T09:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T04:28:04","slug":"ai-can-widen-access-to-expertise-improve-service-delivery-in-developing-economies-world-bank-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/ai-can-widen-access-to-expertise-improve-service-delivery-in-developing-economies-world-bank-report\/","title":{"rendered":"AI can widen access to expertise, improve service delivery in developing economies: World Bank report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday launched the World Bank Group\u2019s &#8220;World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence&#8221; at an event organised by the IndiaAI Mission and MeitY. <\/p>\n<p>The study found that AI can widen access to expertise, raise productivity, and improve the delivery of services in developing economies. AI-enabled tools are already being deployed in medical screening, agricultural decision-making and education, extending scarce expertise to larger sections of the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday launched the World Bank Group\u2019s &#8220;World Development Report 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence&#8221; at an event organised by the IndiaAI Mission and MeitY. The study found that AI can widen access to expertise, raise productivity, and improve the delivery of services in developing economies. AI-enabled tools are already being deployed in medical screening, agricultural decision-making and education, extending scarce expertise to larger sections of the population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042075,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042045\/revisions\/1042075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}