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This is why well-functioning open-source Datasets such as #commonvoice are so important ... Quote: Underlying that efficiency is a decision to build on existing foundations. IBM trained its speech model by modality aligning Granite 4.0 to speech on publicly available open-source corpora rather than building a separate speech stack.

(4 of 4) Final note from the Global #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026

Check out the publication: "Advancing Open Source AI in India: Recommendations for Policymakers & Technology Developers"
https://www.bmz-digital.global/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Policy_Brief_on_Open-source_AI_in_India.pdf

Concrete recommendations to:

Policymakers:
- Reduce regulatory uncertainty and help create markets

AI developers:
- Focus on substantial AI core components that can be re-used
- Avoid “open washing”
- #OpenSourceAI is a key foundation for local innovation, collaboration, security.

(3 of 4) #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026

📘 Building an Open and Responsible Voice Technology Ecosystem: A Policy Framework for Digital Inclusion in India https://lnkd.in/gzPZ4tgM
🧰 Developers’ Toolkit: Indic Voice Technologies for an Inclusive Digital India https://lnkd.in/g8aTXq6q

These publications were developed by Digital Futures Lab, ARTPARK Trilegal with support from #BHASHINI - (Digital India BHASHINI Division), nasscom ai and FAIR Forward - AI for All , implemented by #GIZ funded by #BMZ.

(2 of 4) Next from the Global #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026

Next let me highlight my colleague's Bhavika Nanawati anouncement on what it takes to build voice-first AI that truly serves India’s linguistic diversity: "Proud to have launched two important publications ... focused on strengthening open, inclusive, and responsible voice technologies as a core layer of India’s digital public infrastructure. ...

(1 of 4) Hi and I am sharing here some key points from the Global #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026

I start with the very thoughtful summary by Linda Griffin of #Mozilla So true: "with proprietary systems, winning means owning. With #opensource approaches, winning means we’re not just renting AI from a few companies and countries: we’re working collectively to build, share, secure and inspect AI systems in the name of growth and the public interest." #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026 https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/02/20/behind-the-velvet-rope-the-ai-divide-on-display-at-the-india-ai-impact-summit-2026/

Study exposes Gaps in German Companies’ Duty of Care w. regard to outsourcing online work to GIG workers in the socalled "Global South": By designing logos, labeling #AI training data, programming software, cloud workers in the Global South keep digital business models running. The study sheds light on why their work has hardly been considered part of supply chains until now. Checking #FairWork ratings (https://fair.work/en/ratings/cloudwork/ ) are good first step #GigEconomy

More: https://www.bmz-digital.global/en/news/invisible-work-cloudwork-study-duty-of-care/

I am resharing here a post by @lelapaai :

"Big language models are impressive. Small, efficient ones that scale are transformative.

InkubaLM was built to prove a simple point that much of the industry still ignores: AI does not need endless compute or data to perform well. By engineering InkubaLM for low-resource and code-switching environments, we demonstrated that efficiency is a competitive advantage that unlocks scale across markets"

https://lnkd.in/g38iBZaT

#LanguageAI #LelapaAI

Masakhane African Languages Hub launched new call to address the underrepresentation of African languages in AI. Its about funding, visibility, and institutional support. Non-profits, social enterprises, tech innovators & research institutions based in or have a presence in Africa can apply. Main themes: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR); Benchmarking "In the Wild"; and Culturally Relevant Multimodal Datasets. Deadline: Jan 25 #AfricanNLP #MasakhaneHub #InclusiveAI https://www.masakhane.io/masakhane-african-languages-hub/grants

Great piece by Lea Gimpel of "Digital Public Good Alliance" on “Digital Sovereignty Using Digital Public Goods”. I really liked the push back on isolationism👍 : “There is an ongoing misconception that the digital sovereignty movement is “isolationist.” Open-source and digital public goods are inherently designed to enable commons-based peer production.”

Check out the five recommendations at https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/five-steps-to-enable-digital-sovereignty-using-digital-public-goods

#cbpp #OpenSourceAI #opensource #oss #FOSS #digitalsouvereignty

I am boosting here a piece by #GIZ s"Ensuring everyone benefits from AI" - I am happy and proud to be part of efforts and the following commitment: "GIZ is specifically committed to small, specialised, resource-efficient and open AI models. The advantage of this is that we share the AI to encourage the development of markets and innovation at local level." Let's continue to democratize AI through #opensource - Disclaimer: I am involved through #fairforward #OpenSource https://akzente.giz.de/en/ai-artificial-intelligence-fair-forward

I just found #DPGA s new website on "Calls for Collaborative Action". They want to to galvanise support for global "digital public goods" in four key areas: Open-Source First Policies, Principles and Frameworks; Open Data for Public Interest AI; DPG4DPI Financing; and DPGs for Climate Action. I am curious how the planned knowledge exchange will look like. https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/calls-for-collaborative-action

Testing how this tetrööting of tweet will work ... retrööting @[email protected] - Again, just the scribe on this one, but some incredible efforts from Didier Mugwaneza, @[email protected] and @[email protected]
, making the #Kinyarwanda dataset on @mozilla 's Common Voice second only to English - an incredible effort, supported by @[email protected]
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/open-voice-success-in-rwanda/