Azlan Othman
Brunei Darussalam ranked 57th globally and fourth in ASEAN (after Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia) in the 2021 Government Artificial Intelligence (AI) Readiness Index.
The Sultanate scored excessive in information and infrastructure with 74.23 out of 100; 41.05 in authorities and 43.50 in the know-how sector. The nation’s general rating is 52.93 out of 100 the place the worldwide common is 47.42.
The index is an annual report launched by a United Kingdom (UK)-based analysis group in collaboration with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
The United States (US) tops the worldwide rankings, in giant half because of the unrivalled measurement and maturity of its know-how sector. Singapore ranks second because of its institutional energy and authorities digital capability. The different international locations in the top 5 are Western European (UK, Finland and the (*4*)).
For the primary time, East Asian international locations make up one quarter of the top 20 ranked international locations.
The top-scoring international locations in the area are boosted by expert workforces and superior analysis and technological infrastructures, which drive the area’s aggressive analysis capability. Other excessive scoring teams in the 2021 index embrace the Nordic international locations. Finland and its friends outperform their financial measurement (in phrases of GDP) because of efficient governments and revolutionary enterprise environments.
The index reveals clear inter-regional and intra-regional inequalities. The common rating of the 2 lowest ranked areas is 36.27 (Sub-Saharan Africa and Central and South Asia), whereas the typical for the top two is greater than double that with 76.75 (North America and Western Europe). There can also be an evident divide inside areas, with the best vary of scores seen in East Asia and Middle East and North Africa.
As governments are more and more conscious of the alternatives and dangers offered by AI, the report sees a continued proliferation of nationwide AI methods globally. They have discovered that 30 per cent of the international locations included in their rankings now have a nationwide AI technique and an additional 9 per cent have confirmed they’re drafting one.
This has been paired with authorities motion to create a resilient surroundings for the usage of AI in each the private and non-private sectors, marked by international locations making developments in cybersecurity and information safety laws. While authorities motion is rising, the personal know-how sector has additionally grown considerably. Public know-how corporations have elevated in measurement and personal know-how startups have discovered houses in a rising variety of international locations.
They are hopeful that governments will be capable to harness these personal sector developments to enhance their public service supply, particularly with new companies primarily based on AI applied sciences.
These traits inside the private and non-private sectors are made potential by a backdrop of enough technological infrastructure and the supply of huge quantities of knowledge on populations. The report finds indicators that increasingly more information have gotten out there throughout areas as the usage of the Internet and cellular units grows.
However, the index exposes inequalities in entry to the Internet between genders and socioeconomic teams, presenting obstacles to the creation of AI instruments which reply to all residents’ wants, as the general public strikes on-line and governments goal to maintain up, guaranteeing the representativeness of knowledge should stay a precedence
The index, revealed yearly, ranks international locations primarily based on 42 indicators throughout three pillars: authorities, the know-how sector, and information and infrastructure.
Meanwhile, the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) stated AI might contribute USD1 trillion to the entire Southeast Asian financial system by 2030, however progress in know-how in the area stays gradual.
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