The Global South's stake in Responsible AI development has never been louder — and last week in Delhi, it got a spotlight. The India AI Impact Summit brought together not only heads of state, enterprise leaders, policymakers, and technologists – but also a large swath of India itself, including farmers, students, and housewives. The deliberate participation of these emerging AI users, shapers, disruptors, is an important statement by the most inclusive iteration of the Global Summit series to date: the diversity and scale of democratization reflected in India will be the foundation of a Global South AI ecosystem.
Much of Summit conversation aimed to answer the question: how does AI scale in ways that are trusted, sovereign, and genuinely beneficial for a more diverse set of stakeholders? Credo AI came with answers: two major launches, a landmark partnership, and substantive dialogue with government leadership.
Here's the full picture.
Reflections
The consensus in Delhi was clear: A critical chapter of AI's development will be written in and by the Global South. India's Seven Sutras framework, the government's push for sovereign, inclusive and context-driven AI development, and the steady drumbeat from frontier AI and enterprise leaders announcing major investments in India’s AI ecosystem all pointed to the same reality — governance attuned to the Global South is what will make AI adoption and economic transformation accelerate across the region.
Credo AI participated in the India AI Summit with the goal of discussing the emerging AI governance frameworks in India, not in the abstract, but rather what it takes to deploy governance at the speed of AI innovation — the tools, the partnerships, the policy dialogue, and the resources that make trusted AI a reality across diverse markets. We left Delhi with three major announcements that reflect exactly that.
1. A New Partnership to Advance Responsible AI Across the Global South
Credo AI joined forces with G42, the Abu Dhabi-based global technology group, to advance Responsible AI adoption across India and the Global South.
Both organizations share the conviction that trustworthy AI must move from principle into operational practice, especially in regions with diverse regulatory environments and distinct societal priorities. In this partnership, G42 and Credo AI will jointly build trusted AI solutions purpose-built for the Global South: an Agentic AI Governance Framework designed for the region's regulatory environments and societal priorities; AI literacy and training programs for practitioners and policymakers that embeds Trusted AI principles and AI governance; and governance tooling accessible to enterprises and governments at every level of institutional maturity.
As agentic AI moves from advising to acting, AI governance becomes the mechanism by which organizations retain control and accountability. The enterprises that build that foundation today will be the ones deploying AI furthest and fastest tomorrow.
As Navrina Singh, CEO of Credo AI, said: "Enterprises scaling AI need more than ambition. They need speed with control, and governance they can measure. Our partnership with G42 gives organizations across the Middle East and Global South the capability to deploy AI faster, govern it at scale, and turn responsible adoption into genuine competitive advantage. This matters even more as AI becomes agentic. When your AI is making autonomous decisions, the enterprises that govern it best will be the ones that deploy it furthest and fastest."
G42's Group Chief AI Officer, Dr. Andrew Jackson stated: "AI innovation and AI governance must advance together. When trust is engineered into the system from the start, innovation accelerates, deployment is smoother and adoption happens faster at scale."
Caption: Credo AI and G42 announce a strategic partnership to advance Responsible AI Across Global South at Official MOU Signing Ceremony
2. Democratizing Access to AI Governance with the AI Governance Insights Hub
We launched the AI Governance Insights Hub— a free, public platform bringing practical governance resources, regulatory mappings, risk frameworks, and sector-specific guidance to organizations in the Global South and beyond. The premise is simple: governance intelligence shouldn't be a resource only well-funded organizations can access.
The tool maps over 100 regulatory policies and frameworks, as well as Credo AI’s entire library of risks and controls, with the ability to create “personalized governance plans” based on individual organizations’ priorities. This is just the beginning for the AI Governance Insights Hub – your single source of truth for all AI governance needs. In the coming months, users will be able to explore trusted vendor assessment, model trust scores, industry-specific insights powered by Credo AI agents and more.
Caption: AI Governance Insights Hub Global Map of Policies, Risks, and Controls
3. Highlighting Real World Applications of AI Governance with the “Trust in Action” Compendium
We released the Trust in Action: Proven AI Governance Practices for the Global South — a compendium built with our partners — Mastercard, PepsiCo, Cisco, G42, Autodesk, and IAPP showcasing their real enterprise use cases and implementation playbooks. The compendium illustrates the tangible processes of establishing AI governance and the results in various sectors such as manufacturing, financial services, retail and frontier technology. Emerging AI practitioners can glean many lessons from this collection of sector-wide examples to kickstart their AI governance readiness.
Caption: Credo AI Flagship Session ‘Scaling Trusted AI: Global Practices, Local Impact’ with Panelists from G42, Mastercard, PepsiCo, and PB Fintech Ltd
Critical Conversations on the Ground
Beyond the launches, the week was defined by the quality of conversation. At the closing of the Summit, Credo AI presented our work to Indian Prime Minister Modi at a closed-door roundtable, where we discussed the criticality of operationalizing trusted AI at population scale utilizing AI governance tooling & education. There was a shared excitement to help bring these capabilities to India and the Global South swiftly to ensure AI development, deployment and use is aligned with the MANAV principles that the Prime Minister established at the Inaugural Ceremony of the AI Impact Summit.
Caption: Roundtable with Prime Minister Modi and select global founders leading in AI and deep tech, including Navrina Singh, CEO of Credo AI
In addition to the Prime Minister, Credo AI met with multiple senior government officials throughout the week, including Union Ministers Jitin Prasada and Ashwini Vaishnaw, Secretary of MeiTY, S. Krishnan, CEO of the IndiaAI Mission, Abhishek Singh, Principal Scientific Adviser for Government of India, Dr. Ajay Sood, and Members of Parliament to make a straightforward case: AI governance frameworks and tools must move at the speed and scale of AI innovation.
That means sector-specific guardrails grounded in India's own frameworks. It means techno-legal approaches that translate policy into deployable controls. It requires scaling AI governance starting with literacy programs that reach policymakers, AI developers, deployers, and AI users. And it means India utilizing its diversity, developer ecosystem, and strength in AI applications to ensure that trustworthiness is a critical component built into the global AI ecosystem.
WHAT'S NEXT
For Credo AI, the summit was a starting point for accelerated work ahead to make trustworthy AI for Global South a reality.
With India and global partners including G42, we look forward to bringing AI governance tooling, Agentic AI frameworks, and robust AI Governance literacy to the Global South — for policymakers, enterprise leaders, and practitioners who need to go from understanding governance to implementing it. Credo AI will also continue our work with leading policymakers and partners, such as India’s Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, to ensure deployable guardrails align with the concrete frameworks India and other Global South nations are producing.
The gap between AI capabilities and policy is where AI governance will break down. That's the gap we're closing. More announcements from Credo AI in Global South are coming. Stay tuned.
Ready to operationalize AI governance for your organization? Talk to Credo AI: https://www.credo.ai/
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