We’re heading to the #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026! DFL is co-organising a session to launch the Global South Network on AI Safety and Evaluation. 
🗓️ 20 Feb 2026 🕟 4:30–5:25 PM IST
📍Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi

By unpacking these relationships, the brief highlights the opportunities that open approaches to AI can create for India’s ecosystem, particularly around innovation and participation. #OpenSourceAI

Instead of asking simply “Should AI be open?”, the matrix helps frame a more useful question: Which components should be open — and what outcomes might that enable?

This framework explores how different degrees of openness across AI components — including data, code, and model weights — shape outcomes across the AI ecosystem.

A key contribution of our new policy brief on advancing open source AI in India is the Component–Outcome Matrix to unpack what “openness” in AI actually means. 🔗

Open source AI is a strategic governance choice. This brief offers a roadmap for operationalising it responsibly. 📘 Read the full brief: 
 https://t.co/YjaiNpiQPH

The structure follows these questions directly: Definitions → A practical component–outcome matrix → Opportunities → Risks & trade-offs → Actionable recommendations for policy & practice.

The brief is built around certain Qs: 1️⃣ What makes an AI system truly “open”?
2️⃣ What does opening certain components enable?
3️⃣ What opportunities does openness create? 4️⃣ What risks & trade-offs come w/ OS AI ecosystems?
5️⃣ What steps should policymakers & developers take?

Jointly published with FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All (implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit and funded by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development), NASSCOM, and the IndiaAI Mission.

What does “open source AI” really mean for India — and what should we do about it?  Our new policy brief explores exactly this.
 Read here:
 https://t.co/YjaiNpiQPH

🔹 Mr James Lovegrove, Director, RedHat 🔹 Dr Urvashi Aneja, Founder & Executive Director, Digital Futures Lab 🔹 Moderated by Ms Lea Gimpel, Director of Policy & AI Lead, Digital Public Goods Alliance

💬 Panel Discussion on opportunities and constraints of open source AI for inclusive economic development featuring: 🔹 Ms Amanda Brock, Chief Executive Officer, OpenUK 🔹 Mr Chockalingam M., Director - Technology, nasscom 🔹 Ms Yasha Khandelwal, CEO & Founder, Tech4Biz

🎤 Keynote: Dr. Bärbel Kofler, Parliamentary State Secretary, German Federal Ministry for Economic and Development Cooperation

The policy brief has been developed through expert consultations with diverse stakeholders across industry and government. It outlines a roadmap for advancing open source AI in India, providing key recommendations for developers and regulators.

We’re launching a policy brief, ‘Advancing Open Source AI in India: Recommendations for Governments & Technology Developers’ at the #indiaaiimpactsummit! Harnessing Open Source AI for Inclusive Economic Development 🗓 18 February 🕟 11:30–12:25 PM IST 📍Room 15, Bharat Mandapam

If you're still trying to figure out your schedule for the #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026, might we suggest one of the many events that the Digital Futures Lab team will be hosting and/or speaking at! See you all in New Delhi next week! 🤸 @OfficialINDIAai

Catch DFL at the #IndiaAIImpactSummit! @urvashi_aneja will join “AI and Children’s Safety and Wellbeing,” a side event hosted by @ODET_UN on how safeguards and cooperation can help protect children in the age of AI. 🔗 https://t.co/hdHbBMIrXn #DigitalCooperation

ICYMI: DFL is part of the founding team of the Global South Network on AI Safety and Evaluation — and we’re launching it at the #indiaaiimpactsummit2026! An opportunity to participate in greater South-South collaboration toward stronger AI safety. RSVP:

Join the conversation by RSVPing for the launch event here:

💬 Moderated panel featuring speakers from industry, civil society, philanthropy, and academia

🎤 Keynote by: •Dr Amandeep Singh Gill, Under-Secretary-General of the @UN & UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology •Mr Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary, @GoI_MeitY, Government of India •Ambassador Philip Thigo, Special Envoy on Technology, Kenya