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Women at the Table identifies leverage points in the intricate yet fundamental systems that dictate women’s day-to-day lives. We also spotlight and support women change-makers in order to share multiple, varied visions of women’s leadership and innovation. Women at the Table exposes the systematic exclusion of women in defining the rules – and pinpoints strategic changes to laws, regulations and n

orms to achieve gender equality and strengthen democracy. By connecting the right people, at the right place at the right time, women are influentially involved in all levels of decision-making, so change happen now. Women are an essential, untapped resource – with the power to reshape our society’s systems. It is crucial that we focus on gender equality and democracy for both women and men, now.

It was such a pleasure to moderate this August group as we discussed the that makes governing possible. Because we can...
09/07/2026

It was such a pleasure to moderate this August group as we discussed the that makes governing possible. Because we cannot govern what we cannot measure, we cannot measure what we cannot access, and we cannot scale what does not interoperate.

📍 That was our panel’s remit: measurement, oversight, interoperability.
Many thanks to the panel: Kitty van der Heijden of UNICEF, Deemah AlYahya of the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), Ambassador Philip Thigo, MBS, Tech Envoy of , Bilal A Mateen of the UN Scientific Advisory Board & Jian Wang, founder of Smarter with Alibaba® Cloud, with an always-on-point Ambassador Guilherme Patriota.

Many thanks to Minister Mark-Alexandre Doumba of and Rashid Khan of Yellow.ai for co-chairing the cluster, Doreen Bogdan-Martin masterfully animating the fireside chat with the President of Estonia, and thanks to Golestan (Sally) Radwan of UN Environment Programme UN Environment Programme & Wernhard B. Berger of UNIDO for including Caitlin Kraft Buchman as moderator of this critical infrastructure session.

👏 Historic moment at : entered the AI governance conversation. The Committee’s UN Working Group on discrimination aga...
09/07/2026

👏 Historic moment at : entered the AI governance conversation.

The Committee’s UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls joined (including the B-Tech Project), UN Women, and for a roundtable on Enhancing CEDAW through AI Governance and Tech Value Chains.

It was the first high-level platform to introduce CEDAW-compliant KPIs for tech . Esther Eghobamien-Mshelia chaired this roundtable with Professor Olga Jurasz, Nicole Karlebach, and Caitlin Kraft Buchman, alongside opening remarks from H.E. Clara Chappaz and H.E. Julien Thöni.

The goal: CEDAW compliant KPIs to make genderparity in tech value chains measurable and enforceable, grounded in CEDAW Articles 2, 5, 11, 13, 16 and GRs 35, 36, 37, 40.

➡️ A Geneva Statement is next, feeding into the United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance. Images: International Telecommunication Union | anne laure lechat

Ignoring ’s health means leaving half the economy and the next frontier of biological innovation on the table. This mor...
09/07/2026

Ignoring ’s health means leaving half the economy and the next frontier of biological innovation on the table. This morning at with Oriana Kraft and Yu Ping Chan UN Development Programme we made the case that high-risk AI systems are being deployed on women who were never in the . Clinical trials defaulted to male physiology until 1993. Diagnostic guidelines were calibrated on , and were shaped by decades of gendered credibility assessments.

⚠️ The numbers are stark. AI systems trained on misrepresentative health data reduce diagnostic accuracy by 11.3 percentage points.
➡️ Cardiac disease prediction algorithms are consistently less accurate for women, even on sex-balanced datasets.
➡️ Judicial risk assessment tools systematically overpredict women'’ recidivism: women rated "“igh risk"”reoffend at less than half the rate of men with the same score.
➡️ State-of-the-art language models produce different clinical assessments from identical case notes depending on whether the patient is labelled male or female.
➡️ These are the predictable outputs of structurally incomplete data, hidden by the aggregate metrics we use to evaluate highperforming systems.

🟥 The session drew on two pieces of research: ▪️ InvisiblebyDesign: Women’s Health as the Blind Spot in AI and Medicine (with FemTechnology, 2025)
▪️GenderBias in Judicial Algorithms: A Global Analysis of Algorithmic Discrimination (our CSW70 Expert Paper, 2026)

Together they show the same structural failure playing out identically across healthcare and criminaljustice.

🟥 The goal: a framework statement ready to feed directly into the Global Dialogue process, EUAIAct implementation consultations, and CEDAW General Recommendations 40 & 41.

Images: ITU

At , we brought together Action Line facilitators, government representatives, and civil society for a roundtable on ge...
09/07/2026

At , we brought together Action Line facilitators, government representatives, and civil society for a roundtable on gender equality and AI governance. Three themes anchored the conversation:

🔹 Why gender matters in AI development. Without integrating gender considerations, AI development misses the insights and innovation of women and gender-diverse groups, and fails to address harms like technology-facilitated gender-based violence.

🔹 Actionable indicators, not just principles: more women and gender-diverse people in AI leadership, gender-responsive design training for AI practitioners, meaningful connectivity for women, and public financing for gender-responsive AI services in the .

🔹 Mainstreaming across parallel processes: from the Global Digital Compact to other digital governance tracks, gender equality can’t sit in a silo. The conversation was grounded in Resolution A/RES/80/173, which mandates gender mainstreaming across all WSIS Action Lines and calls for indicators to monitor progress. It’s a step forward but as we discussed, the Resolution still has critical gaps on AI specifically, and doesn’t fully reckon with the fact that AI systems are not neutral and often reproduce structural inequalities, and disproportionately expose women, girls, and gender-diverse people to online harms.
Closing those gaps is urgent and directly aligned with the gender equality commitments coming out of the WSIS Process +20 review.

As part of the Gender in Digital Coalition we unveiled our coalition’s Feminist Guiding Principles and Commitments for Global AI Governance, a framework of principles, commitments, and actionable recommendations tackling issues from investment in feminist AI to gendered bias and governance.

Images via ⁠Alliance for Universal Digital Rights ( )

📣 🌟 This Monday afternoon at with the in Digital Coalition, we are What Matters: Embedding in AI Governance Thro...
06/07/2026

📣 🌟 This Monday afternoon at with the in Digital Coalition, we are What Matters: Embedding in AI Governance Through Gender-Specific

The WSIS+20 mandate calls for gender equality across every action line, but AI governance remains a critical blind spot. At WSIS Forum 2026, the Gender in Digital Coalition surfaces what current indicators miss and maps concrete entry points for gender-specific, actionable indicators before global standards are locked in.

Monday, 6 July
14:00–14:45 (UTC+02:00)
📍 Room G3, ITU Varembé Building
Hybrid format (in-person and online)

🎟️ Register here and join the conversation: https://lnkd.in/ennAeScy

🌟 Speakers:
Marina Meira (Derechos Digitales), Nandini Chami (IT for Change), Mrinalini Dayal (Equality Now) Pavitra Ramanujam (APC) and Caitlin Kraft Buchman (Women@TheTable).

🍀 We have just concluded a great session on hashtag at with Emma Kallina (University of Cambridge & AI & Equality) Ti...
06/07/2026

🍀 We have just concluded a great session on hashtag at with Emma Kallina (University of Cambridge & AI & Equality) Tim Davies ( ), and Daniel Pap (Council of Europe)

We put an operational framework on the table.

➡️ Every not written into a contract is a safeguard that does not exist, and governments are signing AI contracts at scale without the tools to write them well.

By the time a system touches a ’s life — determining benefits, flagging risk, allocating resources — the decisions that mattered most were already made, in contract terms nobody scrutinised.

📍 Learn more about our procurement research and work & get in touch:
aiequalitytoolbox.com/procurement

Registration is still open for our AI & Equality Toolbox course starting January 7th!⏰ Duration: 4 weeks | 2.5 hours...
01/01/2025

Registration is still open for our AI & Equality

Toolbox course starting January 7th!

⏰ Duration: 4 weeks | 2.5 hours of study weekly
📣 100% online | Live tutoring and directed learning

Register now: link in bio ✨

💡 Did you know that our AI & Equality Toolbox was validated at the SEFI - European Society for Engineering Education a...
18/12/2024

💡 Did you know that our AI & Equality Toolbox was validated at the SEFI - European Society for Engineering Education and ✨ cited as a best practice 📣 ⭐ in UNESCO Women for and in the (Global Partnership for ) Report!

We will be teaching the toolbox for a second cohort in January. The course is free, accessible and open to anyone interested in the intersections of and - Tell your friends! 📣

This free online course is:
🗓️ 4 weeks long | 2.5 hours of study weekly
🛜 100% online | Live tutoring and directed learning
💻 Weekly check-ins and troubleshooting with tutors and peers

Learn more and register:
Link in bio!!

Our Human Rights Toolbox free online course, designed to equip learners with a detailed understanding of a human-rights...
16/12/2024

Our Human Rights Toolbox free online course, designed to equip learners with a detailed understanding of a human-rights-based approach to and enable you to critically analyze any new technology products.

This free online course is:
🗓️ 4 weeks long | 2.5 hours of study weekly
🛜 100% online | Live tutoring and directed learning
💻 Weekly check-ins and troubleshooting with tutors and peers

Designed for a approach with no coding or other experience necessary, we will work through four main topics: Human Rights & AI, How Threats to Human Rights Enter the AI Lifecycle, Fairness Concepts & Metrics, and A Human Rights-Based Approach to AI Development.

Learn more and register to join our January cohort: link in bio!! ✨🎉🎉

We can’t wait to tune in! CEO of Women At The Table took the mic🎙️ in the latest episode of the Machine Ethics Podcast ...
27/11/2024

We can’t wait to tune in! CEO of Women At The Table took the mic🎙️ in the latest episode of the Machine Ethics Podcast hosted by 👏

https://lnkd.in/e4gJyuKx

What does in the AI life-cycle look like? A rich episode on and , how technology isn’t neutral, outlining the international treaties on AI, the importance of success , and more!

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