Global Network Initiative

From Delhi to Geneva: Reflections on Inclusive AI Governance The global conversation on AI governance is evolving: from safety, to action, to real-world impact. Following the India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, the first of the global AI summit series held outside an OECD country, it is increasingly clear that effective AI governance must be grounded in diverse lived realities and shaped by those most affected by AI deployment. Through the Multistakeholder Approaches to Participation in AI Governance (MAP-AI) initiative, the Centre for Communication Governance and the Global Network Initiative convened Global Majority academic, policy, industry, and civil society leaders to help center human rights and contextual perspectives in global AI discussions. As attention now turns from Delhi to upcoming processes in Geneva, including the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, sustaining meaningful multistakeholder participation will be critical to ensuring legitimacy, accountability, and global trust in emerging AI governance frameworks. Our reflections and recommendations focus on practical steps to: ✅ strengthen inclusive participation ✅ improve transparency in agenda-setting and outcomes ✅ support Global Majority leadership ✅ connect AI governance processes across global institutions 📄 Read our reflections and recommendations here: https://lnkd.in/gdaNwnWa #AIGovernance #GlobalDigitalCooperation #Multistakeholderism #GlobalMajority #HumanRights #AIpolicy #MAPAI

The WSIS+20 Review was a key opportunity to assess the progress made towards the original goal of the WSIS–building a people-centered, inclusive, and development-oriented Information Society. To support this process, the GNI and Global Partners Digital partnered on a year-long project supported by the inaugural ICANN Grant Program to shape the process through research and multistakeholder dialogues in collaboration with ten civil society partners in eight countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, India, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia. In a series of blogs, the project partners reflect on how the review unfolded on a national level. This includes countries’ roles and key positions evolved throughout the review process. https://lnkd.in/dFbNHRZZ As we move into implementation of the outcomes of the review, non-governmental stakeholders will play a role in contributing to and scrutinising implementation to ensure that the concrete actions agreed upon during the review happen. It remains to be seen how the countries this project focuses on will move forward. Centre for Communication Governance at the National Law University New Delhi, Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), Data Privacy Brasil, Derechos Digitales, Digitally Right, Fundación Karisma, Media Foundation for West Africa(MFWA), Paradigm Initiative, Research ICT Africa

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has just launched its new Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible AI. Executive summary here: https://lnkd.in/gE5ZNKWA As AI systems are developed and deployed at speed, enterprises face a dual challenge: how to innovate and remain agile, while ensuring accountability, transparency, and trust. The OECD’s approach provides a practical, risk-based framework that allows businesses to take risks innovate responsibly, while centering free expression, privacy, and human rights. From a human rights perspective, several elements stand out. The Guidance explicitly anchors AI risk management in responsible business conduct and human rights due diligence. It calls on enterprises to identify, prevent, mitigate, and account for adverse human rights impacts across the AI lifecycle - from design and development to deployment and monitoring. It emphasizes stakeholder engagement, transparency around system capabilities and limitations, and the importance of access to remedy where harms occur. This lifecycle-based, risk-proportionate approach reinforces that AI governance is not only about technical robustness or and safety, but also about safeguarding fundamental rights and democratic values. The GNI framework is consistent with the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct, and the broad suite of OECD due diligence guidance helps inform our approach to responsible business conduct. GNI was happy to participate in the development of this Guidance and appreciates having had our input taking into account. We will use the Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible AI to continue to inform our members' understandings of good practice, and to inform broader conversations around AI governance through our Multistakeholder Approaches to AI Governance (MAP-AI) project. https://lnkd.in/gQAffnrA

How can businesses unlock the power of AI while keeping its risks in check? The #OECD has just launched new Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible AI. The responsible AI approach from the Guidance allows business to take risks, innovate, and be agile, but to do so in a way that promotes accountability, transparency, and ultimately, trust. The objectives of this guidance are therefore to: ➡️Help enterprises navigate existing AI risk management and governance frameworks ➡️ Support innovation, investment and growth of enterprises in the AI value chain ➡️ Serve as a common reference point for AI risk management frameworks. Read the full guidance: https://brnw.ch/21x074j | #OECDAI #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026 #ResponsibleAI Allan Lerberg Jørgensen, Barbara Bijelic, Rashad Abelson, Karine Perset, Luis Aranda, OECD.AI, Sara Rendtorff-Smith, Audrey Plonk, Sebastian Hallensleben 🇪🇺, Andrea Renda, Nozha Ben Hajel - Boujemaa, Hannah Koep-Andrieu

Our #MAPAI Initiative Advisor, Phet Sayo, highlights the need for understanding how like-minded partners from around the world are defining and tracking risks and harms, and the value of strengthening civil society capacities to engage in public policy developments for emerging technologies. MAP-AI intends to foster meaningful and effective multistakeholder engagement across a range of critical AI governance-focused convenings and processes and inform future international AI governance efforts. Our event on the 17th of February is an official satellite event of the India AI Impact Summit, 2026. #IndiaAIImpactSummit #GlobalSouth #CCG #GNI

Our #MAPAI Initiative Advisor, Eileen Donahoe, shares with us the value of the #MAPAI Initiative towards helping build capacity of global civil society actors to engage in AI governance. MAP-AI intends to foster meaningful and effective multistakeholder engagement across a range of critical AI governance-focused convenings and processes and inform future international AI governance efforts. Our event on the 17th of February is an official satellite event of the India AI Impact Summit, 2026. #IndiaAIImpact #GlobalSouth #CCG #GNI

#EventAnnouncement Announcing the sessions for our upcoming event ‘Reinforcements & Learning: #Multistakeholder Convening on #AIGovernance’ on 17 February 2026! We have an exciting line-up of speakers for our sessions under our three themes for the event. Here’s a snapshot of the sessions under our next theme. Stay tuned for more details! Theme: Building Context-Driven AI Infrastructure  Multistakeholder Workshop on: Lessons for Public Interest AI from Digital Public Infrastructure: Agriculture, Health, and Education This event is part of our #MAPAI Initiative, and an official satellite event of the India AI Impact Summit, 2026. Mary Kerema,OGW J. Carlos Lara Gálvez Shikoh Gitau Priit Turk Amba Kak Osama Manzar Markus B. Siewert Kay McGowan Shashank Mohan #AIGovernance #Multistakeholderism #DigitalRights #ResponsibleAI #GNI #CCG #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026 #AIforGood #PeoplePlanetProgress #EthicalInnovation #GlobalCollaboration #AIIndia Narendra Modi Ashwini Vaishnaw Jitin Prasada Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology S Krishnan Abhishek Singh Kavita Bhatia Digital India Programme MyGov India