Shared learning is the connective tissue between GNI’s pillars of work. GNI facilitates learning across its global, multistakeholder membership to turn insights into collective advocacy and rights-respecting practices.
Uncommon Collaboration. Unrivaled Insight.
The frontlines of digital rights move fast. When geopolitical crises erupt, regulatory landscapes shift, or new technologies are rapidly adopted, no single sector has a full view. That’s where we come in. With membership spread across four key sectors and every populated continent, GNI curates learning grounded in our unique multistakeholder model and rights-centered approach.
We create opportunities for our members and partners to exchange knowledge by sharing their perspectives, synthesizing research and evidence, highlighting policy developments, and discussing company and policy implementation challenges.
GNI serves as a unique, trusted platform for constructive engagement across different points of view and contexts, whether to learn about sensitive topics confidentially within the membership or to present insights publicly.
Learning that Informs Impact
Our team and membership build reciprocal feedback loops between learning activities and our four pillars of work, including the pioneering accountability function and policy engagement. For example, the learning agenda draws on questions and issues from company assessments and policy engagements. Then, what we discover in dialogue informs company implementation practices and GNI’s collective advocacy.
This exchange takes place through a range of formats, including expert briefings and learning calls, interactive workshops and tabletop exercises, global forums and conference convenings, and outcome-oriented working groups focused on emerging human rights challenges, for example on tech company responsibility in armed conflict, human rights due diligence, and rights-respecting government interventions in AI.
Where Tech Impacts Human Rights
Our recent learning agenda has explored some of the most pressing technology and human rights challenges, including mapping the risks and opportunities of generative AI; assessing human rights due diligence in complex operational contexts – from deploying hash databases, to managing community moderation, to operating in high-risk conflict settings; navigating shifting regulatory and geopolitical landscapes; tracking and countering growing threats to network resilience through government interference and shutdowns; and scoping ecosystem-wide responsibilities spanning digital rights, trust and safety, and AI governance.
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GNI’s learning activities serve as an incubator for publicly available research and tools that advance the digital rights ecosystem, and inform our collective policy advocacy. By bringing together diverse stakeholders, we ground discussions in local realities, deepen understanding of emerging rights challenges, and foster collaboration to advance freedom of expression and privacy.
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We love to work with aligned organizations. Write to us if you’re interested in joining GNI or collaborating as a partner: info[at]globalnetworkinitiative.org.