Technology built to move progress

AYRE Think Tank exists to keep asking not what technology can do, but what it should, across the four forces shaping what comes next: inclusivity, connection, prosperity and progress.

Explore the Four Pillars

AYRE Think Tank explores how technology can be harnessed to empower human progress and build a better connected and more prosperous world for all. Through independent thinking, research and collaboration, it will examine the opportunities and challenges shaping our future across four interconnected themes – inclusivity, connection, prosperity and progress – turning ideas into perspectives that can help technology deliver meaningful, lasting impact.

  • Inclusivity

    Inclusivity

    Technology only advances human progress if the benefits reach beyond those who already have access. This pillar examines how emerging tools can close gaps rather than widen them.

  • Connection

    Connection

    From local communities to global infrastructure, this pillar looks at how technology brings people, institutions and ideas closer together.

  • Prosperity

    Prosperity

    Economic opportunities don’t distribute themselves. This pillar studies how technological shifts create, or fail to create, real prosperity across different regions and communities.

  • Progress

    Progress

    Where is technology heading next? This pillar focuses on what it will take to ensure that progress, and the direction it’s taking, serves people, and not the other way around.

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The Ayre Index: Measuring Youth AI Readiness Across the Commonwealth

The Ayre Index is a landmark study by the Ayre Think Tank, providing the first comprehensive assessment of youth AI readiness across all 56 Commonwealth nations. Drawing on over 1,100 research sources, it examines how prepared 732 million young people are to benefit from the opportunities of artificial intelligence. With only 15 countries meeting its readiness benchmark, the research highlights a growing risk of digital and economic inequality. More than a ranking, the Ayre Index is a call to action—helping governments, educators and policymakers identify the gaps, unlock opportunity and ensure the benefits of AI drive inclusive prosperity and human progress

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“Our purpose is to identify where opportunities are being lost and what must change to unlock them. That is why this is a Think Tank that seeks to challenge conventional thinking, ask uncomfortable questions and produce research that people cannot afford to ignore. We measure our success not by the attention our work attracts – but by the difference it makes to people’s lives.”

Oliver Poole, Head of AYRE Think Tank