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AI for Good-Innovate for Impact

Final Report for Innovate for Impact

1� Introduction

The AI industry is driving a technological revolution, impacting the global economy and society.
AI transforms healthcare with diagnoses, finance with analytics, retail with recommendations, and
manufacturing with automation. It also enhances transportation safety and aids environmental
conservation. However, experts caution about the widening digital divide and the perpetuation
of biases.

To tackle these issues, ITU's AI for Good platform facilitates the sharing of AI applications and
expertise worldwide. In February 2024, we issued two open calls simultaneously: a call for AI
use cases, and a call for AI scholars. The calls can be accessed on the AI for Good website here.

2� Project introduction and selection process

2�1 AI use cases

Equal access to AI and its benefits requires careful and collaborative considerations on capacity
building. Bringing together scholars and experts from around the world to discuss and analyse
AI enabled use cases impacting sustainable development goals (SDG) is a unique step in
knowledge sharing and technology awareness. These scholars collectively analysed use cases
which in turn were submitted from various corners of the world. This creates not only a collection
of AI use cases impacting SDGs, but also provides a vibrant platform for regional viewpoints to
be accounted and global standards and solutions to be built, using mentoring and handholding
by use case authors and experts.
Thus, the main outcomes for this report are:

• Bridging the knowledge gap and promote experience sharing on AI applications,
especially related to SDGs.
• Analysing requirements for AI applications, along with regional customization and release
a curated list of AI empowered vertical industry and other categories of use cases which
will align with SDGs.
• Fostering collaboration, networking and mentoring among participants, including policy
makers, academia, industry, and civil society, etc.

The collaborative editing and review of these use cases and analysis by scholars and use case
authors from around the world presents a unique opportunity for scalable capacity building
in the area of AI applications impacting SDGs.

2�1�1 Use case selection

Within the deadline for the call for use cases, we received 219 submissions from 38 countries.
For evaluation of the use cases, a set of criteria was established encompassing clarity and
completeness, justification, alignment with AI for Good objectives, and evaluation against

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