Civil society submission urges UN AI dialogue to prioritise Global Majority governance concerns
A submission by the Tech Global Institute calls on the UN’s upcoming AI governance dialogue to address structural inequalities in global AI development, oversight, and participation.
The Tech Global Institute has submitted recommendations to the upcoming UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, arguing that existing AI governance debates remain dominated by Global North regulatory frameworks and priorities.
The submission calls for greater recognition of governance approaches emerging from countries in the Global Majority, stating that policies developed in regions such as Latin America, Africa, and Asia should not be treated as secondary adaptations of European or US models.
Among the recommendations are the creation of regional AI audit units, support for multilingual evaluation benchmarks, and mandatory disclosure of AI testing conditions and limitations, including failure rates disaggregated by language and gender.
The document also identifies governance gaps linked to data extraction, labour conditions for gig and data workers, AI-enabled surveillance, and the exclusion of low-resource languages from dominant AI systems. It argues that many countries in the Global Majority currently deploy imported AI systems without local auditing capacity or meaningful oversight mechanisms.
The submission further calls for stronger participation mechanisms within the UN process itself, including regional consultations, interpretation support, funding for grassroots participation, and accountability mechanisms tracking whether commitments made during the dialogue are implemented.
Read the submission here.
