90% of the World’s Businesses are SMEs and MSMEs and AI Is Reshaping Both Their Future and Their Risk

Every year on June 27, the world marks the United Nations International Day for Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSME Day). This year’s theme — “The Future Generation of MSMEs: An AI-Driven Future” — could not be more timely, because what I’m seeing on the ground is a story very different from the one we usually tell ourselves about how technology spreads. We tell ourselves a tidy story about how technology spreads.