Bangladesh
ITU's GENIE.AI is an open-source AI stack now piloting in four countries
ITU assembled GENIE.AI from existing open-source tools -- OPEA, Docling, IBM Granite and Google Gemma -- so governments can run AI services without depending on one vendor. Pilots are already live in Lesotho, the Gambia and Bangladesh, with a fourth under way in El Salvador.
Assorted links for 7 September 2026
Seven links: a European Commission expert review on AI's divides across member states, infrastructure for governing AI agents, a paediatric chest X-ray model whose sensitivity falls from 95.1 to 6.2 per cent across countries, smartphone oral cancer screening in India, AI policy priorities across Africa, a benchmark for simulating governance policy, and Nigeria's sovereign AI agenda at GITEX.