Independent evidence. Collective advocacy. From the Global South.
A civil society-led platform for AI evaluation, safety, and advocacy across the Global South.
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Knowledge Partners
What We Do
AI is being deployed at scale across the Global South, but the evaluation, evidence, and oversight needed to make it safe haven't kept pace. The Network addresses these gaps through four core activities:
Evidence and Evaluation
Locally grounded research, open benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks that make AI safety measurable in Global South contexts.
Shared Intelligence
Pooling findings across countries and contexts to identify emerging risks early, and to surface patterns that become visible only when evidence is compared across the network.
Capacity Building
Equipping Global South civil society and policymakers to engage meaningfully with AI safety and governance.
Collective Advocacy
Connecting deployment realities on the ground with the global forums where AI rules are written.
Testimonials
What Our Partners Say
I see the launch of the Global South Network for Trustworthy AI as the first step in operationalising the New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments. With support from industry, frontier AI labs, research institutions, governments, and multilateral bodies, this initiative can grow stronger.
Mr. Abhishek Singh
Director General, National Informatics Centre & Additional Secretary, MeitY, Government of India
A handful of institutions should not define what risks are measured, what harms are prioritised, and what safe performance means. Governance is about power — and we must deconcentrate that power, even if it's unintentional.
Ambassador Philip Thigo
Special Envoy on Technology, Republic of Kenya
These kinds of networks will play a crucial role in bringing local cases and threats into international discussions, so that those discussions do not ignore, omit, or discount the perspectives of the vast majority of people on the planet.
Quintin Chou
AI Lead, UN Office of Emerging and Digital Technologies
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If you’re a government entity, tech company or civil society organisation that would like to join, partner with or support the Network, reach out!
