First, regarding India, Africa, and the “Majority World”: the leapfrogging potential is real. Just as Africa skipped landlines for mobile banking, emerging economies can skip over the old, centralized mainframe AI infrastructure and go straight to distributed, local models. This may happen by necessity at first, but it is a better innovation model. Global majority communities may pioneer Civic AI solutions much quicker than wealthier nations can adopt them. Innovation will flow from the global majority, not just from elites in Silicon Valley.