Working Groups At The AI Impact Summit / AI for Economic Growth & Social Good
AI for Economic Growth & Social Good Working Group
Leveraging AI to enhance productivity, innovation, and inclusive development across economies and societies.
About The Working Group
AI can significantly advance development goals, including across healthcare, education, agriculture, among others. However, realizing this potential requires addressing barriers related to capacity gaps, fragmented knowledge-sharing, interoperability, and incentive alignment that limit scalability and replicability. The AI for Economic Growth & Social Good thematic working group seeks to strengthen cooperation, promote knowledge exchange, and identify pathways to scale impactful AI solutions that advance inclusive, sustainable, and equitable growth.
Vision & Objectives
Building an equitable global AI ecosystem
The Working Group will explore approaches to harness AI’s potential for truly inclusive growth, recognising and supporting high impact use cases that become exemplars of AI for both economic growth and social good.
Leadership
Ms. Debjani Ghosh
India Co-Chair
Distinguished Fellow - NITI Aayog
Ms/ Debjani Ghosh is a Distinguished Fellow at NITI Aayog and the Chief Architect of the NITI Frontier Tech Hub, India’s pioneering think tank dedicated to advancing the country’s readiness in frontier technologies for accelerated economic growth and societal development. With over 28 years of leadership experience, including as the first female President of Nasscom and former head of Intel South Asia, she has been at the forefront of driving India’s emergence as a global innovation powerhouse. At Nasscom, Debjani redefined the organization’s focus on frontier technologies, championed India’s deep tech ecosystem, and advanced the nation’s position as a trusted partner for human-centric and sustainable innovation. Her vision of the “Techade” and the “Inevitable India” strategy has inspired a global narrative around India’s leadership in technology-driven transformation. Recognized among India’s “First Ladies” by the President of India, she has been featured in Vogue’s “Tech Leader of the Year” and in FemaleOneZero’s “40 over 40 - World’s Most Inspiring Women.”
Netherlands
Country Co-Chair
The Netherlands is a global leader in advancing AI for economic growth and social good, combining strong public-private collaboration with a steadfast commitment to human-centric and ethical innovation. Through initiatives such as the Dutch AI Coalition, Strategic Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence, and the ROBUST Program, the country fosters sectoral transformation in areas such as healthcare and energy. Ranked first in the 2024 Global Index on Responsible AI, the Netherlands exemplifies how inclusive, ethical, and innovation-driven approaches can align AI progress with public good.
The Netherlands is a global leader in advancing AI for economic growth and social good, combining strong public-private collaboration with a steadfast commitment to human-centric and ethical innovation. Through initiatives such as the Dutch AI Coalition, Strategic Action Plan for Artificial Intelligence, and the ROBUST Program, the country fosters sectoral transformation in areas such as healthcare and energy. Ranked first in the 2024 Global Index on Responsible AI, the Netherlands exemplifies how inclusive, ethical, and innovation-driven approaches can align AI progress with public good.
Indonesia
Country Co-Chair
Indonesia is taking an active and forward-looking approach to Artificial Intelligence, guided by its National AI Strategy 2020-2045 and the recently launched AI development roadmap. The country is investing in research, digital infrastructure, and capacity building to integrate AI across priority sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, education, and public services.
Indonesia is taking an active and forward-looking approach to Artificial Intelligence, guided by its National AI Strategy 2020-2045 and the recently launched AI development roadmap. The country is investing in research, digital infrastructure, and capacity building to integrate AI across priority sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, education, and public services.
Key Issues
Understanding the global AI divide and our approach to bridging it
The Challenge
While AI holds immense potential to accelerate economic growth and social progress, realizing this promise at scale remains a challenge. Many high-impact AI solutions addressing critical development priorities continue to face barriers to replication and sustainability. Resource and capacity asymmetries, fragmented innovation ecosystems, lack of interoperability, and misaligned incentive structures constrain scalability and equitable access.
The Solution
Addressing these challenges requires greater collaboration to bridge the “pilot-to-scale” gap, promote knowledge and resource sharing, and strengthen local innovation ecosystems that reflect regional realities.
The Impact
Advancing this agenda can enable countries to adapt proven solutions, avoid duplication, and ensure that AI contributes meaningfully to inclusive and sustainable development outcomes.
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