The announcement came from Geneva on 2 July, where ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin joined both co-chairs to unveil the new commission. It brings together heads of state, UN agency directors, and technology CEOs including Jensen Huang of NVIDIA, Andy Jassy of Amazon, Brad Smith of Microsoft, and Jack Clark of Anthropic.
The commission is framed around three problems: that a quarter of the world remains offline; that AI governance is fragmented across competing national and multilateral bodies; and that current AI deployment tends to deepen existing inequalities rather than narrow them. Its founding document points to those 2.2 billion offline people as the primary constituency the body intends to serve.
The full membership list spans 44 founding members across five continents. Government representatives include Estonia's President Alar Karis, Iceland's President Halla Tómasdóttir, Singapore's Minister Josephine Teo, and Nigeria's Minister Bosun Tijani. On the corporate side, CEOs from Accenture, Qualcomm, Vodafone, FedEx, Grab, Cohere, and Reliance Industries are among the signatories.
ITU's institutional logic here is clear. The agency already coordinates the global radio spectrum and sets telecoms standards; extending that convening role to AI governance builds on the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, which ITU ran jointly with UNESCO and which shaped global connectivity targets. The new body follows the same multi-stakeholder format.
The AI for Good Global Commission holds its inaugural meeting at the ITU AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, 7–10 July, running alongside the first UN-mandated Global Dialogue on AI Governance and the WSIS Forum 2026. The commission's presence at the Summit positions it as the highest-profile of the initiatives in play that week.
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