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Women at the Table

A fair future
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We don’t just analyze digital infrastructure and feminist AI—we build it. For a decade, Women at the Table has sparked systems change by redesigning the tables where decisions shape our world, not just adding seats.

 

Our mission: forge technology that strengthens democracy, advances gender equality, and protects human rights.



For a decade, Women at the Table has sparked systems change by redesigning the tables where decisions shape our world, not just adding seats.

Our Work

Some of our groundbreaking work

W@tt’s Up

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Ten Rooms, One Argument

Geneva convenes the first UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance this week. The draft road map for the next twenty years of digital governance contains the word gender zero times. Here is our week.

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Proposed WSIS Gender Indicators for the WSIS+20 Review

This is the window in which the measurement architecture of the digital era is set. It will not open again soon.

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Apertus: The Open AI Model That Can Prove Its Bias

Switzerland’s open model Apertus is the only frontier AI whose training data can be audited for the gender gap that makes AI misdiagnose women.

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The Architecture Is Being Built Right Now.

Here is Where to Find the Doors

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AI Cannot Outperform the Evidence It Was Built On

New Paper: How Biased Data Is Shaping Who Lives, Who Is Believed, and Who Is Left Behind

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When Algorithms Discriminate: Tech Bias in Justice Systems

The Algorithm Took Notes: What We Learned at CSW70 About Tech Bias in Justice Systems

Upcoming events & talks

Women at the Table in Geneva AI Events ’26 

This summer, Geneva hosts the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance, the WSIS+20 High-Level Event, and AI for Good — all in the same week.

 

The frameworks, standards, and institutions that will shape digital transformation for the next decade are being renegotiated right now.

 

Women at the Table is convening six events across the Human Rights Council, WSIS+20, and AI for Good to ensure gender equality and human rights are embedded in that architecture — not added as an afterthought.

Citizens' Track at Geneva AI Week

Jul 07 - Jul 108:00 am - 5:00 pm

Citizens’ Track at Geneva AI Week

Join us for the launch of the Citizens’ Track on AI report and the Case Book and sharing visions for the future of public voice shaping AI governance.

WSIS Forum 2026 | Fit for Whom? Sex-Stratified Data and the Integrity of High-Risk AI

Jul 0710:00 am - 10:45 am

WSIS Forum 2026 | Fit for Whom? Sex-Stratified Data and the Integrity of High-Risk AI

Drawing on three recent research papers, this session presents evidence of the cascade from male-default data to biased outputs across healthcare, criminal justice, and social care, then maps what needs to change in data standards, validation requirements, and governance frameworks.

WSIS Forum 2026 |  Enhancing CEDAW Accountability through AI Governance and Tech Value Chains
A Multistakeholder  Convening on AI Governance

Jul 089:00 am - 6:00 pm

A Multistakeholder Convening on AI Governance

The OHCHR B-Tech Project and Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) are launching a newAI Product Design Workstream in cooperation with AI industry leaders.

Network of Women Ministers and Leaders in ICT — Leadership Circle Lab | Gender-Responsive AI Standards: From Rhetoric to Reality

Jul 0911:00 am - 11:45 am

Network of Women Ministers and Leaders in ICT — Leadership Circle Lab | Gender-Responsive AI Standards: From Rhetoric to Reality

The international community is actively renegotiating the frameworks, standards, and institutions that will shape digital transformation for the next decade — and whether gender equality is embedded in that architecture, or added as an afterthought, is being decided right now.