Continuing advances in energy and satellite internet means the very soon the 2.2 billion who previously were unserved are going to be coming online with internet connections and will need similar products and services to those that the connected world has enjoyed. These will need to be in multiple languages and suited to the financial and patchy / unreliable network circumstances of those living in remote areas of developing countries .
Such products and services will have to be developed by local AI entrepreneurs and businesses in the developing world . This will require an army of AI developers. AI academies have a very important role to play in helping create such an “army” so that the benefits of AI are shared equitably across the world. There are likely to be many hundreds of thousands of new AI Trainees and significantly increased business for AI Academies in the next few years so WAAA Members will hjave opportunities to improve their incomes while doing good.
The World AI Academies’ Association (WAAA ) is being established as a sister not for profit organization to the International Association of AI Agent Developers (IAAD ). It will create a Global network of AI Academies collaborating and sharing resources , advocating for National AI training programmes and participating in development of specialist AI entrepreneur training courses focusing on the products and services needed to help deliver the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs) across the developing world .