IT for Change requests your endorsement of this statement that challenges the prevailing AI paradigm, characterized by precarity, market concentration, exclusion, and ecological harm.
As organizations and individuals in pursuit of global digital justice, we are united in rejecting the current AI paradigm and calling for a ‘ReGenAI: New Deal for the AI Economy’.
Our New Deal is an articulation of the shared political and normative commitments that emerged from the conference ‘Towards Regenerative AI’ (31 October–1 November 2025) convened by IT for Change. It is an alternative framework that centers:
- Meaningful and Dignified Work
- Diversified Economies
- Pluralistic Knowledge Societies
- Planetary Flourishing
You can read the full text of the New Deal here.
Let’s seize this moment to chart an alternative path where the adoption of AI is rooted in a vision of just, humane, and decolonial futures. We call on you to stand with us and endorse our New Deal.
Co-creators:
- Aditi Surie, Researcher
- Alexandre Costa Barbosa, Project Coordinator – UniPeriferias
- Amoha Sharma, Program Coordinator – Center for Global Digital Justice
- Amrita Sengupta, Independent Researcher
- Anuradha Ganapathy, PhD Student – University of Manchester
- Balaji Parthasarathy, Professor – International Institute of Information Technology
- Barbara Olive Maria Adams, Board Chair – Global Policy Forum
- Bhagyashree Joshi, India Community Manager – Open Supply Hub
- Brian Chen, Policy Director – Data & Society
- Chee Yoke Ling, Executive Director - Third World Network
- Deepti Bharthur - Independent Researcher
- Ganesh Gopal, Co-founder – Centre for Development Initiatives (CDI) & Tinkerhub Foundation
- Gaurav Godhwani, Executive Director & Co-founder – CivicDataLab
- Gayathri Vasudevan, Chief Impact Officer – Sambhav Foundation
- Jai Vipra, PhD student – Cornell University
- James Henry Farrar, Director – Worker Info Exchange
- José Renato Laranjeira de Pereira, PhD Researcher - Sustainable AI Lab, Universität Bonn
- Laura Elizabeth Mann, Associate Professor, International Development Department – London School of Economics
- Mandvi Kulshreshtha, Independent
- Maria Soledad Vogliano, Senior Researcher and Campaigner - ETC Group
- Mirai Chatterjee, Chairperson – SEWA Cooperative Federation
- Nachiket Udupa, Member – Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS)
- Padmini Ray Murray, Founder – Design Beku
- Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Leader – Feminist AI Research Network, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Piush Antony, Social Policy Specialist - Lucknow Field Office of UNICEF
- Pooja Kapahi, Director for Youth, UNI Asia & Pacific Region – UNI Global Union
- Poruri Sai Rahul, Chief Executive Officer – FOSS United
- Prerakkumar Mukeshkumar Shah, Senior Project Manager – Vrutti, Catalyst Group
- Rachada Buranasiri, Researcher – Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University
- Rafael Augusto Ferreira Zanatta, Director – Data Privacy Brasil
- Rajiv Kumar, Project Manager – Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
- Ramya Chandrasekhar, Researcher –Centre for Internet and Society (CNRS, France)
- Revathi Sharma Kollegala, Technology Strategist – Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
- Roberto Remo Bissio Staricco, Coordinator– Social Watch
- Ruchi Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer – National Insurance VimoSEWA Cooperative Ltd
- Sabina Dewan, Founder and Executive Director – JustJobs Network
- Shivangi Rai, Deputy Coordinator and Lead: Technology. Health & Society – Centre for Health Equity, Law & Policy, Indian Law Society
- Shyam Krishna Raja Gopalan, Research Leader – RAND Europe
- Sofia Beatriz Scasserra, Associate Researcher - TNI
- Sreechand Tavva, Product Manager - Arghyam
- Sreenath Namboodiri, Lawyer and Policy Researcher - Intellectual Property Law, Human Rights, and Public Policy
- Titiksha Vashist, Co-founder, Lead Researcher - The Pranava Institute
- Usha Raman, Professor - University of Hyderabad
- V Abhishek, National Project Officer – UNESCO
- IT for Change Team: Abhineet Nayyar, Anita Gurumurthy, Anusha Sharma, Chandra, Eshani Vaidya, Gurumurthy Kasinathan, Marzia Ibrahim, Merrin Muhammad Ashraf, Nandini Chami, Natasha Susan Koshy, Sadhana Sanjay, Saloni Mishra, Sherina Poyyail, Shobhit S., and Susan Sreemala