Sign up for the “unconference” workshop here: https://luma.com/hqws4vm9
Despite a series of high-profile global AI Summits (in Paris, Seoul, and Bletchley Park) and multilateral processes—meant to shape the norms, frameworks, and principles that govern AI—civil society groups remain concerned about exclusion from discussions, decision-making, and Summit outcomes. As a result, some of the most critical international AI policy forums and processes lack the essential expertise needed to identify, understand, and reduce the greatest risks of AI.
With the India AI Impact Summit set to be held in February 2026, with emphasis on inclusive governance, innovation, and digital equity for the Global Majority, we see an aperture for strengthening multistakeholder participation in the lead up to the Summit.
To this end, the Centre for Communications Governance (CCG), National Law University Delhi, Global Network Initiative (GNI), and Tech Global Institute will be hosting a pre-Summit multi-stakeholder workshop focused on Innovation, Openness, and AI to gather inputs into the democratization of AI, building safe and trusted AI systems, and leveraging AI to promote social good. The workshop will be hosted during MozFest in Barcelona on November 9, 2025, and will explore how to enable inclusive and rights-respecting innovation.
This “unconference” workshop aims to bring together 20 to 30 participants (from academics and researchers to civil society members and tech policy workers). Through brief provocations and democratic discourse, inputs from the workshop will form an Action document containing concrete, actionable, bottom-up insights on AI governance from Global Majority stakeholders. Ahead of the India AI Impact Summit, this workshop will help build cross-regional connections between actors engaged in public interest AI governance work and amplify global participation from diverse stakeholders at the Summit and beyond.
