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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. ## Video: Doreen Bogdan-Martin | TIME100 AI [Watch (HLS stream): Doreen Bogdan-Martin | TIME100 AI](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/AU9OoGf0.m3u8) (2:37)  _Published 2026-08-27_ Secretary-General, United Nations International Telecommunication Union by [Harry Booth](https://time.com/author/harry-booth/) ## Harry Booth Booth is a reporter at TIME.  D. Woldu—ITU Doreen Bogdan-Martin has long held that AI can be a global equalizer. But she says it won’t happen by accident. The Global North has adopted AI at twice the rate of the Global South, she says, while 2.2 billion people-—over a quarter of the globe—lack internet access altogether. As secretary-general of the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Bogdan-Martin is focused on closing that gap. She’s secured more than $120 billion in pledges from companies and developmental agencies to bring the world online. In July, she hosted ITU’s seventh annual AI for Good Global Summit, drawing more than 12,000 people to Geneva. The gathering seeks to connect builders with funders and governments, elevate promising AI applications, and foster the skills and standards needed for adoption. This year’s event saw the launch of a new commission, for which Bogdan-Martin serves as vice chair alongside co-chairs Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Salesforce CEO and TIME owner and co-chair Marc Benioff. Critics say solving global challenges like hunger and inequality will require political solutions rather than algorithmic ones, and question giving Big Tech leaders a platform on which to burnish their reputations, as they accumulate power and wealth. But inviting technologists into the U.N.’s initiatives, Bogdan-Martin says, is the only way to ensure “safe and responsible AI for the benefit of humanity.” Their participation has also helped the ITU mobilize investment toward its broader connectivity goals. “I think we have to bring everybody to the table,” she says. Founded in 1865, the ITU established common rules that allowed telegraph messages to cross national borders. By the time Bogdan-Martin joined as a policy analyst in the ’90s, the agency was adapting to the rise of mobile connectivity. Since the New Jersey native became the first woman to lead the ITU in 2023, the organization has warned that the long-standing digital divide is being compounded by new AI-era gaps in access to data, computing infrastructure, and localized algorithms-—the building blocks of AI. The pace of AI development has made the ITU’s task of setting technical standards more urgent, and challenging. In July, it said it plans to set standards for autonomous AI agents, though it has yet to agree on global AI watermarking and deepfake-detection standards it began work on in 2024. Bogdan-Martin in 2017 helped launch the ITU’s AI for Good initiative, aiming to leverage AI to tackle some of the world’s biggest development challenges. One 2026 AI for Good Impact Award winner was an AI-powered platform to support struggling readers developed by a Nigeria-based NGO. Local community-driven use cases like this are “where the greatest potential lies,” she says. Bogdan-Martin wants developing countries to be “creating and not just consuming” AI. 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