Tech Global Institute is excited to introduce its first cohort of Tech Policy Fellows, selected from a global pool of hundreds of applicants. These leaders, with diverse expertise in international human rights law, public policy, economics, political science, child protection,…
December 22, 2025 Access Now, Article 19, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Human Rights Watch (HRW) , International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP), Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS), and Tech Global Institute. We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the…
On December 9, Tech Global Institute submitted its official input for the IMSB-led Virtual Stakeholder Consultation on WSIS+20 Revision 2 (Rev2). TGI’s analysis of the reveals that the text has been weakened in critical normative areas while simultaneously constraining the…
Tech Global Institute and Derechos Digitales will jointly host an online session titled Designing Community-Centric Data Governance, as a side event to the WSIS+20 UNGA High-Level-Meeting. The session will be held on December 16, 2025, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EST….
The Global Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Summit 2025, held in Cape Town, South Africa, brought together governments, development partners, technology leaders, and civil society actors from all over the world to discuss how digital public infrastructure can support inclusive, sustainable,…
On November 17, 2025, Tech Global Institute responded to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights’ call for inputs with a submission for the upcoming thematic report on “the impact of digital and AI-assisted surveillance on assembly and association…
The Bangladesh Election Commission’s (EC) decision to enable millions of expatriates to vote is overdue and, on paper, encouraging. It operationalises a series of amendments to the Representation of the People Order, 1972 made over the past decade, most recently…
WSIS+20 Virtual Stakeholder Consultation on Rev1 November 14, 2025 Delivered by: Shumaila H. Shahani, Tech Global Institute Statement My name is Shumaila Shahani, and I represent the Tech Global Institute, where we’re dedicated to advancing equitable technology governance. A core…
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…
October 13, 2025— We commend the Interim Government of Bangladesh for its significant and timely initiative in considering the draft Personal Data Protection Ordinance, 2025 (the “Draft PDPO”) and the draft National Data Management Ordinance, 2025 (the “Draft NDMO”) to…
Digital technologies—especially social media platforms and AI/ML models—are powered by vast global supply chains of labor, often hidden from public view. At the heart of these systems are thousands of workers who perform content moderation, data annotation, and other forms…