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Geneva, March 2026 · The Geneva AI Governance Institute (GAIGI) proposes the Geneva Pact for Digital Trust, a concrete and neutral mechanism designed to make international cooperation on AI genuinely operable.

Faced with an observation shared at every level · global, federal, cantonal and private · AI is advancing faster than the rules, and fragmentation weakens sovereignty, raises the cost of compliance and slows cooperation. Geneva does not seek to impose an additional framework · it seeks to make existing frameworks compatible, verifiable and workable.

The Pact rests on solid institutional realities:

• Globally: 22 States including Switzerland have endorsed the Guidance Note on AI governance (February 2026); 89 nations have adopted the New Delhi Declaration and the Trusted AI Commons.
• Federally: AI is a priority of the Swiss Digital Strategy 2025-2026; International Geneva is a pillar of the digital host state.
• Cantonally: 1 digital department created in 2023, an Innovation Master Plan 2025-2027 endowed with CHF 11M.

The Pact aims to create a public-private Steering Committee whose objective is to position Geneva as a global centre for digital governance, with the following timeline:

• 26 March 2026 · MC14 Yaoundé: relay to the Swiss delegation
• July 2026 · AI for Good: official ITU slot
• 2027 · World AI Summit: explicit political support and institutional co-sponsors

In times of fragmentation, Geneva can do more than comment on change · it can organise trust.

Contact: [email protected] | www.gaigi.org

Casablanca / Geneva, February 2026 · The Geneva AI Governance Institute (GAIGI) and APEBI, the Federation of Information Technologies, Telecommunications and Offshoring of Morocco, are launching an unprecedented pilot programme for multi-jurisdictional AI compliance auditing.

This programme brings together more than 15 innovative Moroccan companies · across fintech, e-commerce, GovTech, EdTech and compliance tech · for a 3-day on-site audit followed by a 6 to 12-month remediation plan. The participating companies already operate AI systems in production, ranging from credit scoring to fraud detection, as well as augmented recruitment and content generation.

The objective: to enable these companies to demonstrate their compliance with the requirements of the EU AI Act, NIST and other international frameworks, through a single dossier valid across several markets. This concrete programme illustrates GAIGI’s ability to turn its technical tools into real impact for the economies of the Global South.

The results will be presented at international events in Geneva and Yaoundé in the first half of 2026.

Contact: [email protected] | www.gaigi.org

Geneva, 18 February 2026 · The Geneva AI Governance Institute (GAIGI) makes available to all the first open source mapping tool for AI regulatory interoperability, unifying 7 major regulatory frameworks within a single structured dataset.

The frameworks covered include: NIST AI RMF (USA), EU AI Act (Europe), ISO/IEC 42001, China TC260, OECD AI Principles, Singapore Model Governance Framework, and UK AI Framework. The whole is broken down into 34 sub-categories and available in 3 formats (Excel, CSV, JSON).

This tool allows governments, companies and researchers to visualise the functional equivalences between the different regulatory approaches, facilitating multi-jurisdictional compliance and considerably reducing the associated costs.

Open access on GitHub: github.com/Geneva-AI-Governance-Institute-GAIGI/interoperability-mapping

This publication is part of GAIGI’s mission to build a neutral and auditable technical infrastructure for global AI governance, consistent with its status as a Sector Member of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Contact: [email protected] | www.gaigi.org

Geneva / Yaoundé, 26 March 2026 · The Geneva AI Governance Institute (GAIGI) presented the Geneva Bridge, a voluntary and neutral technical mechanism for AI regulatory interoperability, at the 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Yaoundé, Cameroon, from 26 to 29 March 2026.

The Geneva Bridge is a regulatory translation tool that maps the functional equivalences between AI governance frameworks, allowing compliance documentation prepared in one jurisdiction to be read and assessed in others. It translates · it does not harmonise. National authorities retain full sovereignty over all acceptance decisions.

Three certification levels are offered, calibrated for SME budgets: basic entry (USD 1,000-5,000), multi-market mapping (USD 20,000-50,000), and sector assessment (USD 50,000-100,000). Level 1 costs are fully subsidised for companies based in LDCs.

The mechanism is anchored in Article 6 of the WTO TBT Agreement on the voluntary recognition of conformity assessment procedures · no treaty renegotiation is required.

GAIGI has called on WTO Members to support pilot programmes (2026-2028) involving 3 to 5 volunteer countries and 8 to 10 AI systems per country, with a target of reducing deployment times by 30 to 40%.

Contact: [email protected] | www.gaigi.org

Op-ed published and shared on the occasion of the WTO’s MC14 in Yaoundé, advocating for the opening of an African path for AI governance through the Geneva Bridge.

Read the op-ed