In 2025, the gap between AI ethics rhetoric and ground-level accountability stopped being a technical problem and became a democratic one.
We responded by building infrastructure, not publishing more position papers.
Introduction: Rules Into Tools
The year 2025 marked a turning point: the gap between AI ethics rhetoric and ground-level implementation shifted from technical oversight to democratic threat. The <AI & Equality> Initiative by Women at the Table exists to close thisdivide, transforming universal “Rules” into working “Tools” that are legallygrounded, technically rigorous, and feminist by design.
We’ve built an ecosystem that pairs a global community with technical innovations and human rights-based design frameworks. Through regional co-creation across Africa, Europe, and Latin America, we provide the infrastructure needed for genuine accountability—ensuring the future of AI is co-authored by those most impacted by its deployment, not just those building it.
As governments worldwide build Digital Public Infrastructure, we provide the civic infrastructure layer—the accountability mechanisms that transform DPI from technical architecture into democratic stabilization. By centering equality, we’re building the foundation that makes digital governance sustainable.
We’ve built an ecosystem that pairs a global community with technical innovations and human rights-based design frameworks.
2026 and Beyond: Co-Creating the Future
We’re building the civic infrastructure
layer of Digital Public Infrastructure—the accountability mechanisms that strengthen democracy rather than erode it.
When AI systems respect human rights by design, they provide stability rather than volatility, legitimacy rather than backlash. This is the missing layer governments are building DPI without: the equality- centered foundation that makes digital transformation sustainable.
