Research Article Artificial Intelligence Global Digital Compact
Assessing AI Maturity in the South Mediterranean: Pathways for Capacity Building under the Global Digital Compact
South Mediterranean countries face widening disparities in artificial intelligence (AI) capacity across compute, data governance, skills, adoption, and enabling strategies. Building on the United Nations Global Digital Compact (GDC) and the UN Secretary-General's report A/79/966 on innovative voluntary financing options for AI capacity-building, this chapter contextualizes regional readiness and proposes practical pathways to advance through AI maturity tiers.
November 2025 • Ermelinda Kanushi, Mohamed Alouane