New York, Feb. 23 -- Keyzom Ngodup Massally, AI Director at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), on Monday hailed India's leadership in the Global South as the country announced a historic trilateral partnership on artificial intelligence with Italy and Kenya on the sidelines of the global AI Impact Summit.

The strategic trilateral partnership was announced to co-design and deploy scalable, sovereign AI pathways across Africa, leveraging India's digital public goods. It was signed in the presence of Nandan Nilekani; Adolfo Urso, Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy and William Kabogo Gitau, Kenya's Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy.

In an exclusive interview with ANI, Key...