MAP-AI’s objective is to foster meaningful and effective multistakeholder engagement across a range of critical AI governance-focused convenings, processes, and initiatives, with a particular focus on elevating underrepresented voices and perspectives.

The Multistakeholder Approaches to Participation in AI Governance (MAP-AI) initiative was launched by the Global Network Initiative (GNI) and the Centre for Communication Governance (CCG) at National Law University Delhi in 2025, with the immediate goal of enhancing multistakeholder engagement and academic and civil society influence at the India AI Impact Summit, hosted by the Government of India in New Delhi in February 2026 (see here for more details on our Impact Summit programming). 

Building on our activities at the Impact Summit, MAP-AI will synthesize lessons learned, continue to facilitate multistakeholder engagement, and publish insights to inform future international AI governance efforts.