{"id":993673,"date":"2026-02-19T08:38:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993673"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:25:40","slug":"ai-is-offering-global-south-a-unique-opportunity-to-catch-up-fast-microsofts-brad-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/ai-is-offering-global-south-a-unique-opportunity-to-catch-up-fast-microsofts-brad-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is offering Global South a unique opportunity to catch up fast: Microsoft\u2019s Brad Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a unique opportunity to countries in the Global South, which have been lagging in technology adoption, \u201cfor catch-up growth\u201d and as usage grows, investment will grow as well, said Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft Corporation. <\/p>\n<p>Positioning India as a \u2018land of digital opportunity\u2019, he told ET\u2019s Surabhi Agarwal, that the company with a market cap of $2.95 trillion is a key player in supporting India&#8217;s $200 billion AI infrastructure push. He added that as more and more government\u2019s push for AI sovereignty, the trade agreement finalised between the US and India gives an opportunity to make markets in both countries open for digital services and in turn attracting investments to each country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a unique opportunity to countries in the Global South, which have been lagging in technology adoption, \u201cfor catch-up growth\u201d and as usage grows, investment will grow as well, said Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft Corporation. Positioning India as a \u2018land of digital opportunity\u2019, he told ET\u2019s Surabhi Agarwal, that the company with a market cap of $2.95 trillion is a key player in supporting India&#8217;s $200 billion AI infrastructure push. He added that as more and more government\u2019s push for AI sovereignty, the trade agreement finalised between the US and India gives an [&hellip;]<\/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-993673","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\/993673","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=993673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}