AVPN’s $35M AI Fund: Moving Workers & MSMEs Past Basic Prompts

While many workers across the Asia-Pacific are using generative AI tools weekly, a massive execution gap remains. Stepping in to push AI literacy is AVPN. Through its $35 million USD AI Opportunity Fund: Asia-Pacific, it's supporting initiatives to help workers and small businesses learn "how to AI."Young Park, Director of the AI Opportunity Fund Project at AVPN, joins BFM’s Enterprise Explores to review the on-ground data since the fund’s 2024 launch. We look beyond surface-level tool familiarity to explore the regional infrastructure shifts and localised training frameworks driving workforce equity toward 2030.Tune in to find out more about:Scaling the Fund: An overview of how a recent $10 million USD contribution from Google.org expanded the total pool to $35 million USD to scale AI literacy across 20 distinct markets.Overcoming Distrust: Why mature workers aged 40 to 60 are 1.6 times more likely to distrust AI architectures, and how localised, multilingual content bridges the execution gap.Malaysian Deployment Tracks: A breakdown of the free, dual-track framework active locally through the ASEAN Foundation’s AIM ASEAN initiative and community boot camps run by partners like Pepper Labs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.