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Vol. 89, No. 18 

Friday, January 26, 2024 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

AI in Global Development Playbook 

AGENCY: United States Agency for 

International Development (USAID) 

ACTION: Notice; request for information. 

SUMMARY: The United States Agency for 

International Development and the U.S. 

Department of State, in coordination 

with the National Institute of Standards 

and Technology (NIST), seek 

information to assist in carrying out 

responsibilities under Executive Order 

14110 on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy 

Development and Use of Artificial 

Intelligence issued on October 30, 2023. 

Specifically, the E.O. directs USAID and 

the State Department to publish an AI 

in Global Development Playbook that 

incorporates NIST’s AI Risk 

Management Framework’s principles, 

guidelines, and best practices into the 

social, technical, economic, governance, 

human rights, and security conditions of 

contexts beyond United States borders. 

DATES: Comments containing 

information in response to this notice 

must be received on or before March 1, 

2024. Submissions received after that 

date may not be considered. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted by any of the following 

methods: 

Sent as an attachment to 

emergingtech@usaid.gov in any of the 

following unlocked formats: HTML; 

ASCII; Word; RTF; Unicode, or .pdf. 

Written comments may be submitted 

by mail to: USAID, IPI/ITR/T, Rm. 2.12– 

213, RRB, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20004. 

Response to this RFI is voluntary. 

Submissions must not exceed 10 pages 

(when printed) in 12-point or larger 

font, with a page number provided on 

each page. Please include your name, 

organization’s name (if any), and cite 

‘‘AI in Global Development Playbook’’ 

in all correspondence. 

Comments containing references, 

studies, research, and other empirical 

data that are not widely published 

should include copies of the referenced 

materials. All comments and 

submissions, including attachments and 

other supporting materials, will become 

part of the public record and subject to 

public disclosure. 

USAID will not accept comments 

accompanied by a request that part or 

all of the material be treated 

confidentially because of its business 

proprietary nature or for any other 

reason. Therefore, do not submit 

confidential business information or 

otherwise sensitive, protected, or 

personal information, such as account 

numbers, Social Security numbers, or 

names of other individuals. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions about this RFI contact: 

Andrew Merluzzi, emergingtech@

usaid.gov or 1–802–558–5397. 

Accessible Format: USAID will make 

the RFI available in alternate formats, 

such as Braille or large print, upon 

request by persons with disabilities. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To 

promote safe, responsible, and rightsaffirming development and deployment 

of AI abroad, the Executive Order on 

Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy 

Development and Use of Artificial 

Intelligence directs: 

‘‘The Secretary of State and the 

Administrator of the United States 

Agency for International Development, 

in coordination with the Secretary of 

Commerce, acting through the director 

of NIST, [to] publish an AI in Global 

Development Playbook that 

incorporates the AI Risk Management 

Framework’s principles, guidelines, and 

best practices into the social, technical, 

economic, governance, human rights, 

and security conditions of contexts 

beyond United States borders. As part of 

this work, the Secretary of State and the 

Administrator of the United States 

Agency for International Development 

shall draw on lessons learned from 

programmatic uses of AI in global 

development. 

USAID and the State Department are 

seeking information to assist in carrying 

out this action. 

With the right enabling environment, 

ecosystem of market actors, and 

investments, AI technologies can foster 

greater efficiency and accelerated 

development results across a variety of 

sectors and contexts, whether in 

agriculture, health, education, energy, 

etc. Addressing the risks presented by 

AI technologies is essential to fully 

harnessing their benefits. Understanding 

these risks across a range of geographic 

and cultural contexts requires the 

expertise of local communities, the 

private sector, civil society, 

governments, and other stakeholders. 

The AI in Global Development 

Playbook aims to characterize the risks 

and opportunities of AI in Global 

Majority countries (sometimes referred 

to as low- and middle-income countries, 

developing countries, or the ‘‘Global 

South’’), and will provide guidance for 

various stakeholders—organizations 

building, deploying, and using AI; 

private sector; governments; and 

others—to address those risks and 

leverage opportunities to drive AI 

applications for sustainable 

development. This RFI is an attempt to 

collect various research products, 

experiences, and perspectives that will 

inform the Playbook and speak to the 

unique risks and benefits of the use of 

AI technologies in Global Majority 

countries, including concrete examples 

of successes, hurdles, and roadblocks. 

AI ecosystems are the stakeholders, 

systems, and an enabling environment 

that empower people and communities 

to build and use AI tools responsibly, as 

well as to respond to the use of AI 

technologies in their contexts. While no 

two AI ecosystems are identical, there 

are broad characteristics that many 

ecosystems share or upon which they 

differ. Feedback on this RFI will help 

illuminate the most impactful 

ecosystem factors and inform how best 

to navigate those factors to advance a 

responsible approach to AI. 

In considering information for 

submission, respondents are encouraged 

to review resources that USAID, State 

Department, and NIST have developed 

or coordinated with partners to develop 

in the past: 

• USAID Digital Ecosystem Framework

• USAID AI Action Plan

• Reflecting the Past, Shaping the

Future: Making AI Work for

International Development

• NIST AI Risk Management

Framework

• OECD Working Party on AI

Governance

• Global Partnership on AI

• OECD Recommendation on AI


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• Hiroshima Process Code of Conduct 

for Organizations Developing 

Advanced AI Systems 

1. Questions for the AI in Global 

Development Playbook 

USAID and State Department are 

interested in receiving information 

pertinent to any or all of the topics 

described below. Respondents may 

provide information on one or more of 

the topics in this RFI and may elect not 

to address every topic. 

Please answer based on your 

experience, the positions of your 

organization, or research you have 

encountered or conducted. Where 

possible, please cite the source of your 

information or note when personal 

views are expressed. 

Information that is specific and 

actionable is of special interest. 

Copyright protections of materials, if 

any, should be clearly noted. USAID 

and the State Department are especially 

interested in the perspectives of those 

living and/or working in Global 

Majority countries, though responses are 

welcome from anyone. 

The Opportunities, Risks, and Barriers 

of AI 

1. What are the most important 

barriers in Global Majority countries to 

achieving a future where AI tools are 

designed and deployed in a responsible 

way to address the UN Sustainable 

Development Goals (SDGs) and support 

humanitarian assistance. How would 

you address these barriers? 

2. What applications of AI or AI 

technologies are most promising for 

advancing the SDGs and supporting 

humanitarian assistance? How can these 

applications be advanced responsibly? 

Are there any sectors that are 

particularly well suited to applications 

of AI? Are there potential limitations or 

trade-offs that should be considered 

when applying AI in these contexts? 

3. Relatedly, what are the most risky 

or harmful applications of AI in Global 

Majority countries? Why? Can their 

risks or harms be mitigated, and if so, 

how? 

4. How are commercially available AI 

tools currently helpful in addressing the 

SDGs and supporting humanitarian 

assistance? Where do they fall short or 

lead to harm? What steps have or should 

be taken to mitigate such harms? 

5. How do AI’s potential benefits and 

risks differ for specific groups 

(particularly disadvantaged or 

marginalized groups) and between 

geographic and cultural contexts? 

The Enabling Environment for 

Responsible AI 

6. How should data for AI systems be 

collected, used, stored, managed, and 

owned to further the SDGs and support 

humanitarian goals? Which aspects of 

data management are unique or 

particularly salient for AI? How should 

the objective of ensuring sufficient data 

accessibility for AI training be 

reconciled with other objectives, such as 

ensuring privacy protections, in 

different contexts? 

7. What kind of AI-related financial 

and resource investments should actors 

in Global Majority countries prioritize to 

achieve the SDGs and support 

humanitarian assistance? What kinds of 

financing and resourcing is most needed 

to catalyze responsible AI development? 

8. How should computational 

resources (‘‘compute’’) to build or 

deploy AI systems be managed in Global 

Majority countries? How could compute 

be more accessible, affordable, and 

reliable? How should hardware and 

infrastructure to support the 

deployment of AI systems be managed 

and governed? 

9. What are the barriers to building 

the AI workforce in Global Majority 

contexts, including for tasks beyond 

technical development of AI systems? 

What kinds of skills or experience are 

most needed in these contexts? Where 

can people gain these skills and 

experiences? 

10. What other AI-enabling 

infrastructure or resources are needed to 

advance responsible AI development 

and use? 

AI Policy, Protections, and Public 

Participation 

11. Are there existing AI principles, 

tools, or best practices that you think are 

particularly helpful in advancing AI for 

development in a risk-aware manner? If 

they are only partly helpful, where do 

they fall short? 

12. What kinds of AI-related policies 

do you think are most promising (or 

harmful) in Global Majority contexts? 

Why? Who might these policies benefit, 

and who might they harm? How might 

existing policies be reshaped for 

improved outcomes? 

13. How might AI affect broader labormarket dynamics in your context? Are 

there some skills for which it increases 

demand, and others for which it 

decreases demand? 

14. How might AI affect competition 

dynamics in your context? Do these 

effects vary by economic sector? 

15. How should the public be 

informed about AI risks and harms in 

your context, and engaged on AI 

governance issues? What efforts around 

community engagement seem 

promising? What communities should 

be engaged who are not part of existing 

discussions? 

16. What are the best ways to improve 

inclusivity and stakeholder 

representation in AI design, 

deployment, governance, or 

policymaking in the context of global 

development (at the global, regional, 

and local levels)? 

17. What are best practices for 

ensuring human rights are respected 

and protected in the development, 

deployment, and use of AI in the 

context of a risk-based approach to AI 

governance? Are there mechanisms, 

processes, and capacity in place to hold 

actors accountable for harms resulting 

from AI systems in your context? What 

should be done to create and 

operationalize those accountability 

mechanisms, and ensure their 

sustainability? 

18. Please list any other organizations 

you think should be consulted as the AI 

in Global Development Playbook is 

developed (please note it may not be 

possible to consult with every 

organization). 

Authority: Executive Order 14110 of 

Oct. 30, 2023. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the United States 

Agency for International Development 

was signed on January 24, 2024, by 

Andrew Merluzzi, Emerging Technology 

Advisor, USAID. That document with 

the original signature and date is 

maintained by USAID. For 

administrative purposes only, and in 

compliance with requirements of the 

Office of the Federal Register, the 

undersigned USAID Federal Register 

Liaison Officer has been authorized to 

sign and submit the document in 

electronic format for publication, as an 

official document of the USAID. This 

administrative process in no way alters 

the legal effect of this document on 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on January 24, 

2024. 

Andrew Merluzzi, 

Emerging Technology Advisor, USAID. 

[FR Doc. 2024–01707 Filed 1–25–24; 8:45 am] 

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