{"id":21033,"date":"2025-09-05T22:54:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yulcom-technologies.com\/?p=21033"},"modified":"2025-09-05T22:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:58:43","slug":"artificial-intelligence-standards-the-eu-india-and-africa-insights-from-jean-louis-roy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yulcom-technologies.com\/en\/artificial-intelligence-standards-the-eu-india-and-africa-insights-from-jean-louis-roy\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence, Standards, the EU, India, and Africa \u2014 Insights from Jean-Louis ROY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Artificial Intelligence, Standards, the EU, India, and Africa \u2014 Insights from Jean-Louis ROY<\/b><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p4\"><b>YULCOM Technologies x FARI &#8211; AI for the Common Good Institute \u2013 AI &amp; International Development \u2014 Episode 6\/6<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cData is the soil: it determines whether things grow\u2026 or not.\u201d<\/i><i><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">With this striking metaphor, Jean-Louis Roy \u2014 former Secretary General of La Francophonie and moderator of our roundtable \u2014 set the stage for our reflections on the future of AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Throughout the discussion, he returned to the essential questions: how to reduce risks, ensure inclusive datasets, respect local realities, and imagine pathways toward global governance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But it was his conclusion that opened a forward-looking perspective. Roy pointed to India as a pioneer of digital multilingualism and mass education, whose practices could inspire Africa as it faces an unprecedented demographic challenge: more than <span class=\"s2\"><b>1.2 billion births over the next 25 years<\/b><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\ud83d\udca1 A vision that resonates with the call of Youmani J\u00e9r\u00f4me LANKOAND\u00c9, CEO of YULCOM Technologies:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u201cVery soon, AI will no longer be a luxury, but a necessity to ensure that everyone has fair access to the knowledge society.\u201d<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\ud83d\udccc This sixth and final episode concludes the series <span class=\"s2\"><b>\u201cAI and International Development \u2013 Belgium\u2013Quebec Perspectives,\u201d<\/b><\/span> organized by YULCOM Technologies in Brussels, in partnership with FARI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\ud83c\udfa5 Watch Jean-Louis Roy\u2019s reflections on India and the future of AI in this closing episode:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bt-video-container\"><iframe  width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rvk3lwadK-U?start=9&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence, Standards, the EU, India, and Africa \u2014 Insights from Jean-Louis ROY YULCOM Technologies x FARI &#8211; AI for the Common Good Institute \u2013 AI &amp; International Development \u2014 Episode 6\/6 \u201cData is the soil: it determines whether things grow\u2026 or not.\u201d With this striking metaphor, Jean-Louis Roy \u2014 former Secretary General of La&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1395265,350,447],"tags":[579,561,1395222],"class_list":["post-21033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-blog-en","category-news-en","tag-ai-en","tag-artificial-intelligence-en","tag-ia-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Artificial Intelligence, Standards, the EU, India, and Africa \u2014 Insights from Jean-Louis ROY - YULCOM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yulcom, fond\u00e9e \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, vous propose des solutions personnalis\u00e9es en mati\u00e8re de d\u00e9veloppement web &amp; mobile, d&#039;IA, de Big Data, d&#039;h\u00e9bergement cloud et gestion de projets IT. 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