"The need for our labour is going down, but the need for our data is going up."
At the PLAIH Conference, we heard from voices across the health ecosystem-including patients, health workers, researchers, students, doctors, lawyers, technologists & civil society.
This was about reclaiming the narrative: a democratic dialogue to ensure that we, as a people, shape how AI is used.
The right to understand and own your health data is as fundamental as the right to health itself. AI & technology must be a bridge to equity, agency, and dignity.
As we carry these insights through the final days of the AI-Impact Summit, our mandate remains clear: Technology and AI must be a bridge to equity, dignity, and agency.
My Health. My Data. My Voice.
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"This hasn't happened before."
The PLAIH Conference broke the mold. It brought together the multi-voices often left out in the AI conversation-including frontline workers, patients, innovators, doctors lawyers-for a truly democratic roundtable, to craft a people-led future in AI.
The deliberations are done. The appeal is ready.
After deep engagement at the People-Led AI in Health (PLAIH) Conference, we are now on the road to the Global India AI-Impact Summit.
We are carrying the collective appeal for the People-Led AI Health Rights Charter - a blueprint to ensure the Global South leads its own digital future.
We are mastering this technology to ensure it serves the person, not just the process.
We are standing before a historic opportunity.
AI in healthcare is inevitable. But equitable AI is a choice.
In healthcare, technology is only as good as the agency it gives the patient.
By putting "People's Health in People's Hands," we ensure that as AI transforms health, it does so with dignity. We are moving from a world where you are a "data point" to a world where you are the pilot of your own health journey.
AI is data, and data is AI.
In healthcare, this connection is deeply personal. At the People-Led
AI in Health (PLAIH) conference, the dialogue centered on the urgent need: the right to be in control of our own information. AI is built on data, and that
data belongs to you.
AI is here. But what happens next?
At the People-Led AI in Health (PLAIH) conference, we posed a vital question: How do we lead AI in Health? How do we ensure it empowers us to take better care of ourselves?
We are building a movement to put "People's Health in People's Hands" for the age of AI, with agency and control.
Thank you to everyone who joined the dialogue.
From raw cotton to raw data.
Gandhiji fought to stop the extraction of our resources. Today, that resource is health data.
In the age of AI, private symptoms risk becoming raw material — collected, processed, and used to build systems people neither own nor control.
As Dr. Surajit Nundy reminds us, “If you are not paying, you are the product.”
The conversation at PLAIH conference 2026 reflected on why this moment calls for a Digital Swadeshi approach — one rooted in consent, ownership, and public trust.
We are not a resource.