{"id":976066,"date":"2025-11-24T07:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T02:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976066"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T02:32:19","slug":"uae-announces-1-billion-initiative-to-expand-ai-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/24\/uae-announces-1-billion-initiative-to-expand-ai-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE announces $1 billion initiative to expand AI in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday it will invest $1 billion to expand AI infrastructure and AI-enabled services across Africa, with the aim of helping countries meet national development priorities. <\/p>\n<p>UAE Minister of State Saeed Bin Mubarak Al Hajeri announced the &#8220;AI for development initiative&#8221; at the G20 leaders&#8217; summit in Johannesburg, saying it would bring AI technology to areas such as education, healthcare, and climate adaptation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We consider AI not just as a future industry but a cornerstone of humanity&#8217;s future,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday it will invest $1 billion to expand AI infrastructure and AI-enabled services across Africa, with the aim of helping countries meet national development priorities. UAE Minister of State Saeed Bin Mubarak Al Hajeri announced the &#8220;AI for development initiative&#8221; at the G20 leaders&#8217; summit in Johannesburg, saying it would bring AI technology to areas such as education, healthcare, and climate adaptation. &#8220;We consider AI not just as a future industry but a cornerstone of humanity&#8217;s future,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/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-976066","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\/976066","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=976066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}