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Dvelopment of non negotiable norms that provide for ethis and transparency regarding digital technologies. The impact of the ISO standard on AICertification of equipment on equipment dumpling How to ensure that standards for ethics, transparency and human rights protection are justiciable across continents

• Safe, secure and trustworthy AI
• Social, economic, ethical, cultural, linguistic and technical implications of AI
• Open-source software, open data and open AI models
• Transparency, accountability, and human oversight

Governance should protect the vulnerable groups as well as ensure that development and institutionalisation of privacy by design is inherent attribute of all capabilities. Emerging digital technology development and infrastructure enablement should protect AI sovereighnty through technology and infrastructure sovereighnity that rejuvinate the manufacturing posture of Africa. Governance must thus provide indicators that will enable that even the transfer of skills enures transparency accountability in the utilisation of FOSS to develop state rooted AI model. Intentional reversal of data colonisation should be central to IGF agenda that is rooted on trustworthiness and reliability

Data colonisation reversal in pursuit of data and ài sovereighnity Implications of the Digital Technology Infrstructure , capabilities and inherent cross field critical outcomes to promote creativity and manufacturing of internet that respond to go polital pressures

The impact of he brusells effect remains the greatest challenge to data sovereighnity as well as AI sovereighnity. The differentiated approaches to AI governance has a potential to affect Africa negatively . The opportunity for Africa to lead and define uts AI Agenda is a green field.

AI dialogue presents an opportunity for various stakeholders to table their foresight regarding governance aas well as their inetroretation of the RACI matrix within their jurisdictions. Such will enable consensus document to emerge that will form a basis for further engagements

Th IGF initiatives on stakeholder participation is worth utilising. This is the Model that has been used in some jurisdictions to ensure that no one is left behind. The AI dialogue will collate the views fro a IGF stakeholder paradym thus ensuring that the human rights and ethics are central .

Various stakeholders should present the interface of data governance and AI governance. The impact of domestic landscape and how such accelerate service delivery across various disciplines whilst protecting the justiciabl human rights

Vioces of the people living with disabilities, elderly and rural girls and women who are at the receiving end of the technologies without any training. people living with disabilities have not ben provided space and resources to show case their talent in developing technologies and AI tools

Development of Multi disciplinary, cross disciplinary approach to development of policies . evaluation of platforms .The Digital Technolgy discoure that engages technologies, policy developers and legal practitiores as well as educationists. DTC 2026 that Unisa convened began to lay a foundation that would guide the technology and AI governance across varoius disciplines