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The Trusted Voice Project

A multi-region coalition for ethically sourced, culturally representative voice data — so the communities whose voices are missing from AI become the people who anchor the data, the design, and the governance of how it is used.

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The gap

The world speaks. The data barely listens.

Voice is how most of the world communicates — yet the voice data shaping AI today was overwhelmingly collected from a narrow slice of human speech: Anglophone, urban, Global-North-recorded.

The communities whose voices are missing are the same communities most exposed to the harms AI is producing, and least equipped to participate in the technologies it is creating. That gap is not a technical accident. It is a choice about whose voice counts — and it can be made differently.

What we're building

A coalition, anchored by the people whose voices are at stake.

The Corporation for Public Interest Technology is incubating the Trusted Voice Project, bringing together regional voice-data efforts, language communities, civil-society organizations, and policy partners under a shared charter, methodology, and governance framework — with the conviction that the people whose voices are at stake should be the people who anchor the data, the design, and the governance of how that data is used.

Pillar 01

A federated coalition

Global South regional partners, each retaining their own identity and operations, connected through a shared charter and a regular convening cadence.

Pillar 02

A shared methodology

Voice-data methods released as a public good — capturing dialect, register, and linguistic texture, and built from day one to serve AI inclusion, cultural preservation, authentication, and synthetic-audio defense.

Pillar 03

Standards & policy

A workstream that translates coalition learnings into transferable frameworks for election commissions, telecom regulators, central banks, and international standards bodies.

Our role

The connective infrastructure — not the owner of the voice.

The Corporation for Public Interest Technology anchors the project so regional efforts can contribute to, and benefit from, a shared Global South framework — without surrendering their independence.

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Fiscal sponsor

A trusted home for funding, so resources reach the partners doing the work.

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Legal home

The institutional standing that lets a multi-region coalition operate as one.

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Ethical overseer

Consent, provenance, and community authority held to a public-interest standard.

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Secretariat

The convening, coordination, and shared charter that keep the coalition coherent.

Pamposh Raina

Advisor, Responsible AI · Project Lead

Leadership

Led by Pamposh Raina.

The Trusted Voice Project is led by Pamposh Raina, Responsible AI Advisor at the Corporation for Public Interest Technology.

Foundational phase

Build the coalition with us.

The Trusted Voice Project is currently in its foundational phase. We welcome conversations with regional partners, funders, and researchers who want to help anchor voice data in the communities it comes from.

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Pamposh Raina

Advisor, Responsible AI · Project Lead

Pamposh Raina leads the Deepfakes Analysis Unit (DAU) of the Trusted Information Alliance, an industry body of fact-checkers and media houses in India. Her current work lies at the intersection of A.I. and misinformation. She is a Responsible AI fellow at the Stimson Center. She has also been a fellow at the Virginia Tech Institute for Leadership in Technology.

She is an independent journalist based in New Delhi. She has written on policy, politics, technology, gender, and children's rights for Foreign Policy Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Vox, and The World Economic Forum, among other publications.

She was a reporter with The New York Times as well as the deputy editor for India Ink, which was NYT's first-ever country-specific blog. She has also been a special correspondent, South Asia, for AFP.

She is part of the global cohort of trainers accredited by the Solutions Journalism Network.

During the 2019 Indian parliamentary election, she led a research project commissioned by WhatsApp to analyse misinformation trends on the messaging platform. She also initiated a student-led project at UC Berkeley's Human Rights Center that focused on studying disinformation on social media in the run-up to the 2019 Indian election.

As a trainer she has held workshops for journalists in South Asia and Southeast Asia on addressing climate crisis misinformation through WAN-IFRA as well as the Earth Journalism Network. She has organized and hosted panels on mental health and well-being for journalists in India through the Meta Journalism Project. As a media consultant she led a project that documented the impact of climate change on small farming communities in rural India.

She has a master's degree in Sociology from The Delhi School of Economics. She was awarded a fellowship to pursue graduate studies in Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University. She has received a UNFPA sponsored journalism award for gender reporting in India.