AI can help to bridge the digital divide and create an inclusive society

Globally, there are large disparities in access to health, education, etc. and the UN's Sustainable Development Goal No. 10 is aimed at reducing inequalities for the world's most vulnerable. For example, according to global association of mobile operators (GSMA), although eighty percent of the population in developing countries owns a mobile phone, still more than 1.7 billion women do not own one, according to a recent report on the subject. Anecdotally, there are more mobile phones in the developing world than adults. We see an increasing number of apps and services that are now being offered digitally. Moreover, cheap alternatives to text messaging and social networking platforms have enabled more people to communicate information with each other in the last decade than anything has in over a century since the discovery of the telephone.