Introducing the Data to AI Value Chain: Promoting Linguistic and Cultural Diversity for AI Diffusion

This policy brief from UNDP's **Every Language Matters (ELM)** initiative, developed with **Current AI**, introduces the **Data-to-AI Value Chain**, a framework for tackling the barriers that keep many languages and cultures out of AI development. - Maps how value and trust are created across the AI innovation process, and the roles of governments, researchers, funders, technology partners and communities - Builds on two years of work through the **UNDP Local Language Accelerator** - Argues that AI diffusion is not a development outcome in itself, but a signal that the right enabling conditions are in place - Sets out a path towards an ecosystem that encourages investment, partnership and equitable AI deployment