Author: Core Team

The Core Team is a small, focused group of practitioners and researchers committed to advancing responsible, inclusive, and context-aware AI from the Global South. We work at the intersection of technology, policy, and real-world impact, with experience spanning AI governance, risk, data systems, and public interest applications. Our work is driven by a simple belief: AI frameworks built in data-rich, institution-heavy environments cannot be transplanted wholesale into developing contexts. The Global South requires its own evidence, its own guardrails, and its own voice in shaping how AI is designed, deployed, and governed. Today, the Core Team operates as a compact nucleus. Over time, it will expand to include researchers, technologists, and policy advocates across the Global South, collaborating across countries and sectors to build shared knowledge, practical tools, and grounded policy proposals that reflect local realities while engaging globally.