About the authors The Inclusive AI Lab at Utrecht University is dedicated to incubating leaders and helping to build inclusive, re­sponsible and ethical AI data, tools, services, policies and platforms, with a special focus on the Global South. Dr. Payal Arora is Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University and Founder of the Inclusive AI Lab. She is the author of award-winning books, including The Next Billion Users(Harvard Press) and From Pessimism to Promise(MIT Press). She is listed in the 100 Brilliant Wom ­en in AI Ethics 2025, nominated as one of the Eight Wom ­en with a New Vision for the Earth in the 2026 GLF Wom ­en Campaign. and won the 2025 Women in AI Benelux Award on Diversifying AI. Forbes called her the champion of the next billion champion and the»right kind of person to reform tech«. Dr Roberta Calegari is a Professor of AI and AI Ethics at the Department of Computer Science and the Alma Ma­ter Research Institute for Human-centred Artificial Intelli­gence, University of Bologna. Her work focuses on fair­ness, non-discrimination and the societal impact of AI. She coordinates the Horizon Europe project AEQUITAS (GA 101070363), delivering a framework within which to analyse and mitigate bias before deployment. She serves on the Editorial Board of ACM Computing Surveys, has authored 100+ peer-reviewed publications, and leads mul ­tiple trans-regional projects in collaboration with industry partners.