Wikimedia Foundation at the India AI Impact Summit 2026: Advancing Open, Inclusive AI with Free…

Wikimedia Foundation at the India AI Impact Summit 2026: Advancing Open, Inclusive AI with Free and Open Knowledge

Morning view of the Bharat Mandapam convention center in New Delhi. Image by Ministry of Culture of India, Government Open Data License — India (GODL), via Wikimedia Commons.

“Open knowledge, collaborative and transparent, is essential for trustworthy, inclusive AI.”

This is the simple yet fundamental message that the Wikimedia Foundation is bringing to governments, industry, and civil society that will gather in New Delhi for the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on 18–20 February. Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder and Foundation Board Member, will join a high-level panel discussion titled “Building Resilience and Breaking Dependency in Enterprise and Public Sector AI — How Can Open Source Support This?” to highlight how open source and open data can help build resilient AI systems for enterprise and the public sector alike.

Why the Wikimedia Foundation is at the India AI Impact Summit 2026

The India AI Impact Summit convenes policymakers, technologists, business leaders, and researchers to discuss how AI can support global economic and social development. For the Wikimedia Foundation, volunteer communities, and projects, this is a crucial moment to:

• Champion Wikipedia and Wikidata as digital public goods that already underpin AI research and technology worldwide.
• Ensure that global and national AI policy conversations reflect the needs of free and open knowledge projects and the volunteer communities who sustain them in the public interest.
• Build alliances with the open source, digital rights, and public interest technology communities who are shaping India’s AI future.

Wikimedia Foundation staff will be joining both Pre-Summit and Summit events.

Jimmy Wales at the “Building Resilience and Breaking Dependency in Enterprise and Public Sector AI” panel

On 18 February 2026, Jimmy Wales will join the OpenUK and OpenHQ panel “Building Resilience and Breaking Dependency in Enterprise and Public Sector AI — How Can Open Source Support This?” alongside leaders from industry, policy, and legal circles.

Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, will moderate the conversation to explore how governments and other organizations can avoid overreliance on proprietary AI and ground their digital strategies in open technologies and open knowledge instead.

Jimmy will contribute to the discussion with more than two decades of experience in building Wikipedia into one of the world’s most trusted sources of information and most widely used open knowledge platforms.

Let’s connect at India AI Impact Summit 2026

If you attend the Summit, please join us at Jimmy Wales’ session. No matter whether you attend or not, please feel free to reach out to the Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team if you are interested in learning more about these topics and exploring how you can get involved.

Together, we can build a digital future grounded in knowledge equity and inclusivity, transparency, and access to reliable information for everyone, everywhere.

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