Building AI Together, Unlocking Opportunity for All
Through global collaboration and local action, we’re building a future where open, trustworthy technology serves the public interest.
The AI we shape today will shape us tomorrow
The choices we make about AI today will shape society for generations.
By building AI that empowers everyone, we can create jobs with dignity, improve healthcare, and enhance education.
Together, we can ensure AI expands opportunity, strengthens security, and supports a thriving world for all. The choices we make about AI today will shape society for generations.
By building AI that empowers everyone, we can create jobs with dignity, improve healthcare, and enhance education.
Together, we can ensure AI expands opportunity, strengthens security, and supports a thriving world for all.
Imagine a future built by all and for all
What if AI was built with people’s needs at its core? Imagine a future where communities from Lagos to Lima shape technology to solve local challenges. Public interest AI ensures fairness, opportunity, and security, creating a world where innovation serves everyone.
Real impact, real lives
In Kenya, AI-powered sensors now monitor vaccine storage in real-time, preventing spoilage caused by frequent power outages. This system has already safeguarded immunisations for over a million children.
In Nigeria, AI forecasting helps clinics anticipate medicine shortages, ensuring essential drugs remain stocked. Meanwhile, in South Africa, AI optimises solar-powered cold storage, keeping medical supplies safe in off-grid areas.
These innovations don’t just improve healthcare - they create jobs, strengthen local supply chains, and expand access to essential services. From disease prevention to tackling climate change, AI built for the public good can deliver lasting impact.
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Our Focus Areas
Data
Unlocking access to valuable datasets in media, health, and education to empower local solutions and innovation.
Accountability
Ensuring transparency and trust through public-interest auditing and oversight.
Openness
Supporting open standards and tools that make AI accessible and adaptable for everyone.
Our Programme Areas
Our priority programme areas for 2025 are:
Linguistic
Diversity
AI should work for everyone, in every language. But today, many languages remain underrepresented in the data and tools that power AI — limiting the reach, reliability and relevance of these technologies. Our Linguistic Diversity Initiative will help close that gap by expanding AI’s language capabilities through the development of datasets, models, and applications for underrepresented languages. The goal is to make AI more inclusive, more useful, and more reflective of the world it serves.
Health & Human Welfare
AI has the potential to transform healthcare. Unlocking that potential means focusing on the foundations — validating data, strengthening health systems, and meaningfully involving communities from the start. Our Health and Human Welfare Initiative will support real-world evaluations to understand how AI is affecting people and communities in practice. It will also invest in the technical and community infrastructure needed to ensure that AI is safe, reliable, and beneficial for every patient, everywhere.
Open Auditing & Accountability
Accountability shouldn’t be optional. Yet shared standards and scalable infrastructure are still lacking, making meaningful oversight more difficult. Our Open Auditing and Accountability Initiative is changing that. By bringing together diverse voices across sectors and regions, we’re working to develop practical tools, global standards, and governance models that enable fair, transparent, and trustworthy AI.
Our remaining programme areas:
Trust & Safety Infrastructure
AI must be built with safety at its core. This program area provides open-source tools, best practices, and benchmarks to ensure AI systems are used in trustworthy and responsible ways.
Data Provenance
Developing open platforms and global standards to ensure data is reliable, transparent, and accessible. Trustworthy AI starts with trustworthy data.
Public Interest Media
Building a stronger foundation for diverse media voices by enabling fair, collective negotiation for licensing content worldwide. This program area seeks to ensure media outlets, regardless of size or language, are compensated fairly and sustainably.
Science Data
Creating infrastructure to make vital scientific data more accessible, unlocking AI’s potential to drive research and innovation. Breakthroughs happen when knowledge is shared.
Climate & Sustainability
Improving transparency and accountability standards for reporting on AI’s impact on nature and communities as a crucial first step towards ensuring that AI growth aligns with planetary needs. AI’s environmental impact must be measured, managed and mitigated.
People & Participation
Building, sustaining and empowering networks on a global scale. Ensuring AI is built, governed and used in pursuit of the public interest. To achieve the best out of AI, society needs to be in charge.
AI & Children
Safeguarding children across the life cycle of AI systems. Agreeing on best practices and technical standards followed by developers and deployers of AI.
The opportunity to shape AI's future is now
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Join us in building AI that serves the public interest—laying strong foundations for a future where everyone can thrive.
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