ReGenAI: A New Deal for the AI Economy
IT for Change invites 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, Senior Program Adviser - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, India Office
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