By Annemarie Eayrs
Publication Date: 2026-02-06 17:18:00
This month CC will be at the AI Impact Summit in Delhian international meeting shaping the future of AI policy and practice. The 2026 summit will follow this AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025, where CC underscored a simple but essential truth: Without civil society there can be no public interest.
Last year, our interventions focused on why civil society participation is important, the importance of openness in AI, and the need for local solutions based on local contexts. This year we want to build on these foundations and take a clearer and stronger position on data governance and data sovereignty as prerequisites for a thriving community. Specifically, we want to talk about building a shared governance infrastructure focused on a democratic and participatory approach, with the ultimate goal of rebalancing power in the ecosystem.
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