‘Low- and Middle-Income Countries Need Better Data, Not Just Better Tech’ By Athar Parvaiz Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/12/low-and-middle-income-countries-need-better-data-not-just-better-tech/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Rising_Arms_Revenues_and_Death_Tolls_Underscore_Ongoing_Military_Conflicts_Civil_Wars_Vulnerable_Pop CLERMONT-FERRAND, France, Dec 4 2025 (IPS) - During the Global Development Conference 2025, development experts and researchers kept warning that low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) were being pushed into a wave of digital transformation without the basic statistical systems, institutional capacity, and local context needed to ensure that AI and digital tools truly benefited the poor. Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.