EuroMedAI Submits to the First UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance

EuroMedAI has filed a written submission to the first United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance, to be held in Geneva on 6 and 7 July 2026. Drafted on 29 April and published on 10 May 2026, the submission answers the full set of consultation questions issued under General Assembly Resolution 79/325.

Our contribution speaks from the position no other region occupies: the Euro-Mediterranean bridge. We work where the Northern, Southern and Eastern shores of one sea meet, a region that fits neither a purely Global North nor a purely Global South frame. From that vantage point, the submission advances one central argument: closing the AI divide is a precondition for legitimate global governance, not a footnote to it.

What the submission calls for

• A shared, evidence-based diagnostic. The Dialogue should adopt a common method for measuring where countries actually stand, building on the UN Secretary-General’s AI maturity framework (A/79/966), as we operationalised it for nine South Mediterranean countries in our report Bridging the AI Divide.
• A capacity floor, financed. Endorsement of a “Minimum Irreducible Capacity” every state needs, backed by concrete instruments: a Shared South-Med compute hub anchored on existing assets like Egypt’s BA-HPC and Morocco’s Toubkal supercomputer, and a Mediterranean AI Fund with compute-credit matching.
• An open, accountable forum. As we argued in our statement on Resolution 79/325, the Global Dialogue must be an open forum, not a closed-door briefing, with a public registry of commitments tied to a fixed reporting cycle.
• Multilingual inclusion. Governance frameworks must reckon with Arabic, its dialects, Tamazight, Kabyle and other low-resource languages, and with the local territorial actors, youth and women who are too often absent from the room.

Four thematic priorities

The submission selects, from the seven themes of Resolution 79/325: safe, secure and trustworthy AI; AI capacity-building; the social, economic, cultural and linguistic implications of AI; and interoperability of governance approaches, with the protection and promotion of human rights running through all four as the floor beneath them.

Each position is grounded in EuroMedAI’s own work, from FMIA 2025 in Tunis and our engagements with the Union for the Mediterranean, to our financing dialogue within the Barcelona+30 process, our journalism and information-integrity webinar, and our digital-security capacity-building with Moroccan territorial stakeholders.

Read the full submission: EuroMedAI Submission to the First UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance, published in our Research collection, where each of the ten consultation answers is set out in full.