{"id":994408,"date":"2026-02-24T09:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994408"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:21:59","slug":"indias-tech-infra-as-public-good-can-be-emulated-for-ai-across-global-south-says-itu-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/24\/indias-tech-infra-as-public-good-can-be-emulated-for-ai-across-global-south-says-itu-official\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s tech infra as public good can be emulated for AI across Global South, says ITU official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India deploying its massive technological infrastructure like Aadhaar and UPI as a public good instead of a for-profit commercial service serves as a highly replicable playbook for the Global South to drive AI diffusion, Fred Werner, chief of strategic engagement at UN International Telecommunications Union (ITU) told ET. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If India can scale technology for over a billion people, it can be adapted for a country of two million,&#8221; Werner said, adding that the country strongly demonstrates the essential preconditions required to safely adopt and scale AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India deploying its massive technological infrastructure like Aadhaar and UPI as a public good instead of a for-profit commercial service serves as a highly replicable playbook for the Global South to drive AI diffusion, Fred Werner, chief of strategic engagement at UN International Telecommunications Union (ITU) told ET. &#8220;If India can scale technology for over a billion people, it can be adapted for a country of two million,&#8221; Werner said, adding that the country strongly demonstrates the essential preconditions required to safely adopt and scale AI.<\/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-994408","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\/994408","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=994408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}