The role of artificial intelligence in the digital transformation of the Global South economies. A review of the book “Tech Transformation and AI Readiness: Pioneering Paths for the Global South” (Springer, 2025)

Active development of artificial intelligence technologies creates opportunities and poses new challenges for social and economic modernization, and much depends on the willingness to use these technologies in specific economic systems. This paper is a review of a recently published book examining the role of artificial intelligence in digital transformation in the Global South. It contains 8 chapters, each of which is an independent scientific analysis of a specific aspect of the above-mentioned issues. The book is informative, and the number of noteworthy ideas is large. These include perceptions of infrastructural, legal, and other barriers to the mass use of artificial intelligence, dependence on dynamically changing investment volumes and competition for their flows, and emergence of fundamentally new issues of institutionalization of intellectual property and environmental sustainability in the context of rapid digitalization.

The monograph contains many examples of the successful use of artificial intelligence tools in the economies of the Global South countries and demonstrates a wealth of factual material. In general, the book allows to get a general impression of the economic activity specifics related to artificial intelligence in these countries. There are no country reviews in the book, and linking a number of arguments to the historical and cultural context could be stronger. Less than necessary attention has been paid to the situations in national education systems. Compositionally and stylistically, the publication is of high quality, and the extensive references lists in each chapter are interesting in themselves.

The reviewed monograph is a rare consolidated work of this kind; therefore, it may be of interest to Russian readers.

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