Bio
Vinay Narayan is a senior manager at Aapti Institute. He leads Aapti’s work on data stewardship and structures for bottom-up data sovereignty, where the current focus is on building networks of support for bottom-up data initiatives in the Global South. He is also the co-lead of Aapti’s artificial intelligence (AI) research practice that examines the impact of AI technologies on livelihoods and rights frameworks that can address ongoing and potential impacts. Vinay’s current research interest centres around investigating the critical digital infrastructures that support the ecosystem with a view to crafting more effective governance approaches. He is also the lead in Aapti’s engagement as a member of the steering committee of the Global South Alliance, a network of 15 civil society organizations dedicated to the promotion of mutual learning and the advancement of digital rights with a Global South perspective.