July 7th, Hotel San Rocco, Orta San Giulio - On the path traced by the XXV Infopoverty World Conference, held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on the theme “Warfare or Welfare: The AI Dilemma” one of the most pressing challenges of our time has been addressed: the strategic orientation of Artificial Intelligence between security imperatives and human development priorities. The Final Declaration - available here - further stressed the need to harness Artificial Intelligence to...

By Andrea Menabò When people talk about AI, they relate it with a useful tool that makes an already efficient and effective system perfect. But from the African’s perspective, AI is seen as a pivotal tool in the creation and development of the welfare state. And while the EU debates the ethics of the AI, Africa is implementing it in the development of the “Automated safety net”, pushing the entire continent in “leapfrogging” towards an automated and algorithmic-based welfare state. “ This...

EWA-BELT Final Conference, 15-17 July 2025, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa By Camilla Fumagalli On the occasion of the EWA-BELT Final Conference,...