Women at the Table

What Women at the Table does

Women at the Table is a Geneva-based civil society nonprofit founded in 2015 that builds open-source technical infrastructure and policy tools to embed gender equality and human rights into digital governance, multilateral AI policy, and algorithmic decision-making. Its core artifacts are the G-app, an explainable-AI open-source tool that measures women's speaking time, topics, capacity, and authority at international conferences (piloted at IPU Assemblies, WHO Executive Board, and UNFCCC COP events), and the AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox, an online curriculum and Jupyter-notebook platform developed with OHCHR and EPFL that maps human-rights principles to algorithmic creation. Supporting programs include the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms coalition, the f<a+i>r Feminist AI Research Network funding Global South prototypes (AymurAI for judicial reform, an 88.86%-accuracy Brazilian gender-bias detector, a feminist chatbot for digital gender-violence intake), the HumRights-Bench LLM compliance benchmark, and a regional African AI & Equality Toolbox launched in 2025.

The organization's business model is grant-funded rather than commercial. Primary revenue flows from philanthropic and institutional grants — notably the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC) as anchor funder for f<a+i>r and the Incubating Feminist AI initiative — supplemented by UN agency and foundation support. Operating leverage is generated through pro-bono in-kind contributions: Thoughtworks (Nasdaq-listed) provides software architecture and Google Cloud development for the G-app, while Debevoise & Plimpton delivers gold-standard legal and GDPR counsel; this structure allows a 1–10 person team to maintain a globally distributed product and policy footprint. Distribution is open-source direct, with academic adoption at EPFL, ETH Zürich, University College Dublin, and the University of Cambridge, and partnership-driven multilateral engagement through ITU/WSIS, OHCHR, WHO, IPU, the Council of Europe (CDNET observer), and the World Benchmarking Alliance. The GTM motion is fundamentally policy- and coalition-led: earning influence inside binding regulatory forums (WSIS+20, Council of Europe AI Convention, Global Digital Compact) and converting that access into standards rather than revenue.

Customers in the conventional sense are limited; instead, the organization serves a defined stakeholder set of UN agencies (ITU, WHO, UN Women), international governing bodies (IPU, Council of Europe), national governments drafting AI strategies, academic institutions integrating human rights into AI curricula, and women's-rights civil society coalitions. All tools (G-app, Human Rights Toolbox, regional toolboxes, research papers) are distributed free of charge, with impact measured through piloting adoptions, OHCHR inclusion of its guidance, the Paris Peace Forum 2021 selection, the 2025 PRI Award, and the CHI 2026 Honorable Mention rather than through recurring contracts or ARR.

Name

Women at the Table

Legal name

Women at the Table

Website

https://womenatthetable.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Women at the Table is a Geneva-based civil society nonprofit that builds open-source AI governance tools — including the G-app conference-participation measurement tool and the AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox — to embed gender equality into multilateral digital policy for UN agencies, governments, academic institutions, and women's-rights coalitions worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Gender Equality Advocacy and Feminist AI Governance

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Gender Equality & Women’s Rights Advocacy (BPAGAFAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Gender Equality & Women’s Empowerment (BPAGABAF), Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG)

Keywords

• Gender equality advocacy
• Feminist AI governance
• Algorithmic accountability
• AI human rights
• Digital public infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

Genève

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding: Primary revenue stream from international development organizations, foundations, and government grants. Funding from IDRC (International Development Research Centre), various UN agencies, and philanthropic foundations supporting gender equality and technology initiatives.
2. Pro Bono Partnerships: Technology and legal support provided pro bono by partners including Thoughtworks (software development) and Debevoise & Plimpton (legal counsel), reducing operational costs.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Women at the Table is a Geneva-based nonprofit that builds open-source digital tools and policy frameworks to embed gender equality into AI governance and multilateral decision-making. Its core offerings include the G-app (an open-source software that measures women's participation in international conferences), the AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox (an interactive learning and coding platform for universities), and the Human Rights Benchmark for LLMs. These tools are paired with advocacy, research, and coalition-building through the <A+> Alliance and the Feminist AI Research Network (f<a+i>r).

Product overview

Women at the Table is a systems-change organization that builds technology infrastructure rather than selling commercial software products. Their core offerings include the AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox (an online learning and coding platform integrating human rights into AI development) and the G-app (open-source software measuring women's participation in conferences using explainable AI). These are supported by the <A+> Alliance coalition and f<a+i>r Feminist AI Research Network for advocacy, with regional variants like the African AI & Equality Toolbox. The organization also produces research tools like the Human Rights Benchmark for LLMs and provides frameworks for gender-responsive technology assessment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms: Global coalition of technologists, activists, and academics focused on affirmative action for algorithms and gender equality in AI
• Feminist AI Research Network (f<a+i>r)
• Human Rights Toolbox (AI & Equality Toolbox)
• G-app (Gender Gap Application)
• AI & Equality Initiative
• AI & Equality Toolbox
• Gender in Digital Coalition
• Inclusive AI Research Network

Products and services

• G-app (Gender Gap Application) Open-source software that measures the active participation of women and youth in international conferences, capturing speaking time, topics, capacity, and delegated authority. Uses explainable AI and topic modeling and has been piloted at IPU Assemblies, WHO Executive Board, and UNFCCC COP events.
• AI & Equality Human Rights Toolbox Online course and interactive toolkit with Jupyter notebooks, workshops, and a community engagement forum that maps lines from human rights principles to code for university students and faculty integrating intersectionality into algorithmic creation.
• Human Rights Benchmark for LLMs Benchmark tool developed by Savannah Thais that measures human rights compliance in large language models, part of the AI & Equality Initiative for accountable AI development.
• African AI & Equality Toolbox Regional variant of the Human Rights Toolbox featuring African case studies and context for the AI lifecycle, delivered via webinar series in collaboration with ACTS.

Quantifiable outcome

• G-app premiered at Paris Peace Forum 2021; piloting at IPU Assemblies, WHO Executive Board, and UNFCCC COP events
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers8 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

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API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability9 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered supporting and core.

• Canadian Mission to the UNsupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 July 2026Co-hosting Feminist AI Innovation from the Global South event at Geneva. Supporting international development and gender equality initiatives.
• University of CambridgesupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2025Academic partner in organizing WSIS Forum 2026 session on Public Trust and AI Procurement. Contributing research to public trust framework development.
• Council of EuropecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2025Observer status at CDNET (Steering Committee on New and Emerging Digital Technologies). Active engagement in Council of Europe AI Convention processes to embed human rights and gender equality.
• Inclusive AI Research Network (formerly FAIR)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Global feminist coalition including Alliance for Universal Digital Rights, APC, Derechos Digitales, Equality Now, IT for Change, Pollicy, UNFPA, UN Women, World Wide Web Foundation. Promotes intersectionality and gender mainstreaming in global digital governance.
• ThoughtworkscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 November 2022Thoughtworks provided pro bono software architecture and development for G-app through their Social Impact India office. Global software consultancy traded on NASDAQ, bringing 25+ years of technology excellence to build the open-source Gender Gap application using Google Cloud infrastructure.
• World Benchmarking AlliancecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 October 2022Women at the Table serves as Civil Society Lead of Collective Impact Coalition for Digital Inclusion. Joint engagement to drive adoption of ethical AI principles among digital technology companies and institutional investors.
• University College DublinsupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 February 2022Hosting G-app longitudinal research and collaborating on Feminist AI Research Network projects. Professor Susan Leavy hosting Human Rights Toolbox and research on algorithmic bias.
• ETH ZürichsupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 March 2021Co-sponsoring FemTech Summit on women's health technology. Collaboration on research and conferences addressing gender representation in medical trials and women's health data.
• EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 January 2021Academic partnership for Human Rights Toolbox development. Sofia Kypraiou conducting EPFL Data Science Masters Thesis on the Toolbox. Equality Office supports and co-hosts project. Workshops piloted at EPFL with student cohorts.
• Debevoise & PlimptonsupportingImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 8 January 2021International law firm providing pro bono legal counsel on G-app project ensuring data privacy, GDPR compliance, and intellectual property protection at gold standard for UN partner rollouts.
• OHCHR (Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Long-standing collaboration beginning 2017 with Women's Human Rights and Gender Section. Joint development of Human Rights Toolbox workshops and workbook, integrating human rights principles into data science and algorithmic creation.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• World Benchmarking Alliance: Strategic partner and co-lead of the Collective Impact Coalition for Digital Inclusion. Both organizations focus on holding digital technology companies accountable for human rights impacts, share civil society and institutional investor networks, and jointly produce benchmarks on tech company practices. Direct collaboration makes this the closest operational peer.
• AI Now Institute: Leading research institute producing rigorous analysis on AI's social implications, including gender and racial bias in algorithmic systems. Operates at the intersection of AI governance research and policy advocacy, with a similar publication-and-coalition model targeting regulators and multilateral bodies.
• Partnership on AI: Multi-stakeholder nonprofit convening academia, civil society, and industry to develop AI best practices. Convenes working groups, publishes research, and engages with multilateral AI governance processes — closely aligned with Women at the Table's coalition and standards-shaping approach, though focused more broadly across AI themes.
• Algorithmic Justice League: Founder-led nonprofit using research, art, and advocacy to highlight bias in AI, with particular focus on gender and race in facial recognition and other algorithmic systems. Comparable mission and tools-driven approach to exposing and remediating AI harms, with similar coalition-building outreach.
• Access Now: Global digital rights organization defending and extending the digital rights of users at risk. Engages in multilateral fora (UN, G20) and produces policy positions on AI governance, comparable in operating model and Geneva/Washington presence to Women at the Table.
• Association for Progressive Communications (APC): Active partner within the Gender in Digital Coalition alongside Women at the Table. APC focuses on gender and digital rights in the Global South, with comparable feminist technology agenda, network of country partners, and engagement with WSIS and other multilateral processes.

Broad incumbents

• UN Women: UN entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. Partner in the Generation Equality Action Coalition for Technology & Innovation. Much larger and institutionalized, but operates on overlapping mission territory and convenes many of the same multilateral spaces where Women at the Table engages.
• Mozilla Foundation: Major foundation funding internet health, trustworthy AI, and digital rights advocacy. Funds and produces research on AI accountability, including gender and racial dimensions, and operates a fellowship program analogous to Women at the Table's Tech Fellows. Much larger in scale, with overlapping mission territory.

Emerging players

• Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL): Operates at the intersection of digital public infrastructure and inclusion, advancing principles for responsible DPI deployment. Overlaps with Women at the Table's positioning on gender-responsive digital governance frameworks, though with a broader (less feminist-specific) inclusion lens.
• Coding Rights: Brazil-based feminist organization working at the intersection of technology, gender, and human rights. Partner-adjacent through the Gender in Digital Coalition and shared focus on Global South feminist technology research. Smaller, geographically focused, with closely aligned methodology.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

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