IGF 2025 Open Forum #58 Collaborating for Trustworthy AI: An OECD Toolkit

Since its adoption in May 2019, 48 countries and the European Union have adhered to the OECD Principles on Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Egypt and eight Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. This legal instrument outlines five value-based principles and five policy recommendations to foster trustworthy AI, promote innovation, and uphold democratic values and human rights. The OECD AI Principles also serve as the common foundation guiding the work of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), which recently joined forced with the OECD in July 2024 in a new integrated partnership. This session will leverage the multistakeholder and wide regional reach of the GPAI and OECD AI communities, including nearly 600 experts and 44 countries. Despite AI’s transformative potential, its development and benefits remain concentrated in advanced economies. Many countries face difficulties in policy development, governance, and capacity building, along with higher exposure to challenges such as task replacement. Growing disparities, such as unequal access to compute resources and governance frameworks shaped by advanced economies, can further disadvantage populations and stakeholders in emerging and developing economies. To address these challenges, the OECD is developing the AI Principles Implementation Toolkit, offering practical, region-specific guidance for countries working to strengthen their AI ecosystems. Building on this effort, this Open Forum will explore key challenges, opportunities, and policy needs in fostering inclusive AI governance. Speakers will share regional perspectives, policy approaches, and initiatives aimed at supporting AI capacity-building and equitable access to AI technologies. This Open Forum contributes to digital cooperation by showcasing the OECD AI Principles Implementation Toolkit as a practical initiative to bridge AI divides and support governments in adapting AI governance frameworks to their unique contexts.

For the interactive Q&A sessions, the online moderator will make sure that online participants are as able to take part in the discussion as onsite participants. The online moderator will oversee the chat and ensure equal participation by equally splitting the question time for onsite and online participants. The OECD will be able to advertise the event in the social media pages of the OECD.AI Policy Observatory, on the communities of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), of the Digital Policy Committee, of the Working Party on Artificial Intelligence Governance. In addition, the OECD will advertise the event through its GPAI community of experts.