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Multistakeholder Promises and Power Gaps in Global AI Summits

April 6, 2026

Global AI summits have increasingly embraced the language of multistakeholder governance, but meaningful participation by civil society and academic... Read more >

Multistakeholderism in AI Governance: Learning and Reinforcements (Part 1)

March 24, 2026

CCG and GNI are launching a series of blog-posts that speaks to key insights, themes and learning across these deliberations in New Delhi, with the... Read more >

Reflections from ICANN85: Looking Ahead After the WSIS+20 Review

March 20, 2026

At ICANN85, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) co-hosted a session with the ICANN Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG) and Global Partners... Read more >

Shaping the UN Cybercrime Convention: Human Rights at a Crossroads

March 3, 2026

This article has been republished from The DIRECTIONS blog by EU Cyber... Read more >

Looking Back: Tracking National Positions in the WSIS+20 Review

February 26, 2026

Project partners reflect on how the WSIS+20 review unfolded on a national level.... Read more >

Stitching AI Governance Together: Measure Twice, Cut Once

January 28, 2026

As organizations that have been working to enable meaningful civil society participation and multistakeholder collaboration in tech governance for... Read more >

Shaping the Road to the AI Impact Summit in India

December 19, 2025

As artificial intelligence becomes a central pillar of global infrastructure, governance efforts have multiplied, shaping principles for responsible... Read more >

Building a Rights-Respecting Digital Future: GNI Reflections on Revisions 1 and 2 of the WSIS+20 Outcome Document

December 12, 2025

Revisions 1 and 2 signal meaningful momentum within the WSIS+20... Read more >

GNI at the Seoul AI Standards Summit

December 8, 2025

GNI was honored to participate in the AI Standards Summit on 4 and 5 December, in Seoul, hosted by ISO, IEC, ITU and... Read more >

Navigating AI Moderation and the Risks to Free Expression

November 20, 2025

HRDD must evolve alongside AI, and cannot be a one-off assessment.... Read more >

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