Global Network Initiative

Official Pre-Summit Event | India AI Impact Summit 2026 As part of the conference “For Better Internet Regulation in Latin America” hosted by the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) at Universidad de Palermo, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) and the Centre for Communication Governance (CCG) at National Law University Delhi co-organized an official IndiaAI Impact Summit 2026 pre-event titled: Shaping Global AI Governance Through Multistakeholder Dialogue The dialogue, held on 24 October 2025 in Buenos Aires, brought together leaders from civil society, academia, industry, and the investor community across Latin America and beyond to share insights for the upcoming India AI Impact Summit 2026 - the first major global AI summit hosted in the 🌏 Global South. Key takeaways included: 🤖 Building context-driven AI governance models 💪 Strengthening regional coordination and bridge-building. 🗣️ Advancing multilingual AI, data governance, and local innovation. 🤝 Embedding inclusive multistakeholder participation across all levels. 📰 Read the full summary and insights from Buenos Aires:  https://lnkd.in/eebV5Xff For more on this work: https://lnkd.in/egY9Z8we #IndiaAIImpactSummit #AIforAll #GlobalSouth #InclusiveAI #DigitalEquity #AIGovernance #CCG #GNI #CELE

⚖️ What does accountable, rights-respecting #AI governance look like — from government investment and regulation to the deployment of AI systems that shape our daily lives? Last month, GNI launched a Policy Brief to help governments, companies, and civil society navigate the human rights implications of government interventions in AI. The Brief presents a taxonomy of five types of government interventions: hard and soft governance, investment, procurement, and informal influence, across the AI value chain, with illustrative examples from diverse regions. Government interventions in AI can both advance and undermine rights. Positive measures such as mandatory human rights assessments, risk-based regulation, privacy laws, inclusive investments, and rights-focused procurement can strengthen freedom of expression, privacy, and non-discrimination. Conversely, overbroad censorship, discriminatory surveillance, restrictive export controls, and weak legal safeguards risk violating rights and deepening inequality. GNI brings unique value as the preeminent multistakeholder initiative in tech and human rights. For 17+ years, we have convened companies, civil society, investors, and academics to interpret and implement international human rights frameworks in the digital sphere. This Brief translates that expertise into actionable guidance for AI governance across infrastructure, development, and deployment. 🧩 This work was made possible by the dedicated members of GNI's expert multistakeholder AI Working Group: BNP Paribas, Center for Democracy & Technology, Centre for Communication Governance, Cloudflare, Digital Agenda for Tanzania Initiative, Digital Rights Foundation, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting, The Future of Free Speech, Google, Heartland Initiative, Inc., Internet Sans Frontières, Fundación InternetBolivia.org, Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade (ITS Rio), Meta, Women At The Table, Amrita Sengupta (she/her), Courtney Radsch, PhD, Deirdre Mulligan, and Dunstan Allison-Hope. Explore the Policy Brief: https://lnkd.in/eBqfwiux

At #ICANN84 in Dublin, the GNI and Global Partners Digital worked together to bridge perspectives across stakeholder communities, deepening understanding of the #WSIS+20 process and laying the foundations for coordinated advocacy in the months ahead. GNI and GPD co-organized two sessions, "Safeguarding Multistakeholder Internet Governance: Building Alliances in WSIS+20," and, in partnership with the ICANN Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG), "Bridging Perspectives on WSIS+20 from the Technical Community and Civil Society." Both discussions highlighted the strong convergence across stakeholder groups on the importance of preserving inclusive multistakeholder structures, safeguarding an open and globally interoperable Internet, and reaffirming that human rights remain central to the WSIS vision. As the WSIS+20 process moves toward intergovernmental negotiations, alignment and coordination among stakeholders will be more important than ever to ensure that the outcome reaffirms human rights and multistakeholder internet governance as foundational principles for the digital future. 🔗 Read the full blog post and the summary of the workshops here: https://lnkd.in/g29r7_uC

🌏🗣️👥 Enabling multistakeholder approaches to AI governance Centre for Communication Governance (CCG) at National Law University Delhi and the Global Network Initiative (GNI) are excited to host a series of multistakeholder activities ahead of and alongside the India AI Impact Summit 2026. This work intends to demonstrate the value of multistakeholder governance for AI and build on the Government of India’s emphasis on inclusive governance and digital equity for the Global Majority by supporting diverse input and participation in the Summit. In the long-run,we are working to build the infrastructure needed for sustained and meaningful multistakeholder engagement in AI governance processes to ensure they are democratic and inclusive. These activities aim to:  📣 Raise awareness and interest about the opportunities presented by the Summit 🌍 Democratize AI governance through multistakeholder engagement 💪Create opportunities for shared learning and capacity building across stakeholder groups 🎨 Support Global Majority participation in AI governance 📚 Generate substantive inputs to shape Summit discussions and outcomes As the first global AI Summit hosted in a Global Majority country, the India AI Impact Summit offers a unique opportunity to highlight the value of inclusive, multistakeholder engagement in shaping AI futures. Together, CCG and GNI are working to ensure that the Summit reflects the voices, expertise, and lived experiences of civil society, academia, and researchers—especially those from the Global Majority. 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/egY9Z8we #IndiaAIImpactSummit #AIforAll #AIGovernance #GlobalMajority #InclusiveAI #CCG #GNI

📍 Happening tomorrow in Room B2 at the MozFest venue,  Barcelona! November 9, 2025 | 11:30 - 12:30 CET Registration link: https://luma.com/hqws4vm9 GNI, in partnership with the Centre for Communication Governance (CCG) and the Tech Global Institute (TGI), is convening a multistakeholder consultation on AI governance and innovation, as a part of the global pre-summit series leading up to the India AI Impact Summit 2026. We’re bringing together voices from civil society, academia, industry, and government to explore: - How can AI governance reflect diverse, global perspectives? - What principles can foster openness, safety, and inclusion? - How can multistakeholder dialogue shape real policy outcomes? #GNI #AIgovernance #InclusiveAI #Multistakeholder #MozFest #IndiaAIImpact2026

GNI strongly condemns the persistent disruption of Internet and telecommunications services in the #Gaza Strip, expresses its deep concern about the ongoing and repeated restrictions on freedom of expression and access to information during the Israeli incursion into Gaza, and calls on all parties to prioritize the restoration and improvement of telecommunications services in the Gaza Strip. GNI welcomes the ceasefire agreement entered into in early October 2025, and calls on all parties to honor it. Nearly two years after our November 2023 statement, GNI reiterates that these restrictions impede the flow of vital information and undermine human rights. These concerns are exacerbated by the alarming levels of violence against journalists and media workers killed while trying to document and report on the ground. Together, these actions constitute a grave threat to civilian safety, humanitarian efforts, and freedom of expression, including press freedom. Read our full statement: https://lnkd.in/gEUP5-NE

We’re co-hosting the upcoming “Pre-India AI Impact Summit Consultation: Multistakeholder Approaches to AI Governance & Innovation” unconference at MozFest in Barcelona, along with Centre for Communication Governance and Tech Global Institute. At this critical moment in AI governance, we’re bringing together 20-30 civil-society, academic, public-policy, and industry voices to develop concrete, bottom-up recommendations for openness, inclusion, and public-interest AI practices. Join us in shaping a future-facing governance model on November 9, 2025 from 11:30 to 12:30 CET. Registration link: https://luma.com/hqws4vm9 #AIforAll #MultistakeholderAI #MozFest #IndiaAIImpactSummit

📢 New Learning Insight from Global Network Initiative (GNI): “Hash Databases, Due Diligence, and the Boundaries of Government Oversight” As online platforms scale up shared technical systems to detect harmful content, including hash and signal databases, the human-rights stakes are becoming more urgent! In this second session of our learning series, we explore how these technologies: - Offer potential for more consistent, efficient removal of grave harms such as terrorism and CSAM. - Introduce new risks: misidentification, disproportionate take-downs, lack of due process, and greater exposure for historically marginalised communities. - Sit at the nexus of industry, civil society & governments, where regulatory pressure is growing and oversight matters more than ever. ✔️ Key takeaway: These tools aren’t simply “good” or “bad.” The path forward lies in embedding rights-respecting due diligence, transparency, oversight and redress mechanisms, not in rejecting hash or signal databases altogether. ➡️ We invite policymakers, platform engineers, civil society actors and rights-holders to engage: How can companies and governments responsibly deploy signal-sharing systems without sacrificing freedom of expression, privacy and fairness? 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dNAGaRSh 🔗 You are learn more about our first session here: https://lnkd.in/gFQb5NTe #HumanRights #ContentModeration #TechForGood #PlatformAccountability #GNI #DueDiligence #DigitalRights #AI #OnlineSafety

GNI is excited to be collaborating with Digital Impact Alliance and Centre for Communication Governance for this event, as part of our broader engagement around the India AI Impact Summit, 2026!