“The Road to the AI Impact Summit: AI Openness Report” – Bangalore 2025
Published on 19 November 2025
The importance of building understanding and leadership in openness across AI cannot be underestimated, and doing this in the lead-up to the Indian Impact Summit recognises the shift in the summit’s focus to the global south and the importance of access for all, achievable through AI Openness.
The report includes the latest global and local data for the top 6 countries in AI, with a deep dive into the data on India and the UK, showing incredible growth in India.
Contextualised in the India landscape, as explained by the CEO of India’s FOSSUnited, the topics focused on in our thought leadership – Sovereignty and Data access – are relevant to all people of all nations. It is unsurprising, perhaps, that our consideration of data focuses on healthcare and looks to open source case studies in that space from both the UK and India.
Leading thinking on Sovereignty from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and the Takshashila Institution, along with their recommendations for the Indian Government and AI practitioners from NASSCOM’s partnership on open source with FAIR Forward and the Development (BMZ), with Digital Futures Lab holding the pen. We were struck by the similarities in the open source recommendations to the Government and their similarity to those made by OpenUK back in the UK.
The Road to the AI Impact Summit London, Dinner and Roundtable, “AI Openness: Impact, Access and Innovation”: Official Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026
Report Launch Panel at Bengaluru Tech Summit
We were delighted to be accompanied by Impact Summit lead Abhishek Singh, Additional Secretary, MiETY who also contributed to the report, in the panel launch.
