The India AI Impact Summit marked an important milestone for the Multistakeholder Approaches to Participation in AI Governance (MAP-AI) initiative – a joint effort by the Global Network Initiative and the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi to strengthen inclusive participation in global AI governance processes.
Across two full days of programming and a series of global pre-events, MAP-AI created a platform for participants to exchange ideas on the evolving landscape of AI governance – including safety frameworks, infrastructure gaps, testing capacity, and the role of multistakeholder collaboration in shaping global norms.
MAP-AI supported travel for four dozen academic and civil society experts from Global Majority contexts to the Summit and facilited two full days of programing to platform their perspectives. Our 16 February Shared Learning Forum brough together close to 300 academics and civil society participants, while our 17 February public ‘Reinforcements & Learning: Multistakeholder Convening on AI Governance’ featured over 400 participants from governments, industry, civil society, academia, standards bodies, and multilateral institutions and was acknowledged as an official satellite event of the Summit. These engagements were designed to elevate perspectives from the Global Majority and foster dialogue on how AI governance frameworks can better integrate human rights, safety, accountability, and equitable participation.
For more information, please reach out to: info[at]globalnetworkinitiative.org or ccginfo[at]nludelhi.ac.in
