HaitiSIG 2026 · 26–30 October 2026
The Haiti School on Internet Governance is the national capacity-building initiative on Internet governance and responsible artificial intelligence. Five days to acquire the knowledge, practical skills and leadership needed to influence decisions.
Why this school
Artificial intelligence is already transforming Haitian education, healthcare, public administration and the economy. The frameworks that will govern these uses — technical standards, regulation, ethical principles — are being negotiated now, in international arenas where Haiti needs to be present and equipped.
Countries that do not build national expertise end up adopting frameworks designed elsewhere, for other realities. HaitiSIG exists to avoid that: to train a critical mass of people able to understand the technical stakes, assess their ethical implications and translate them into public policy suited to the Haitian context.
Dates
Monday 26 to Friday 30 October 2026.
Main hub
Faculty of Sciences (FDS), Port-au-Prince.
Connected hubs
ESIH (Port-au-Prince), Jérémie, Saint-Marc, Cap-Haïtien.
Immediately after
Haiti IGF, Thursday 5 November 2026.
The programme
The progression is deliberate: first understand how the Internet is governed, then what AI actually is, then the ethical questions it raises, then the instruments of governance — and finally put them into practice.
Understand how the Internet is actually governed, who decides, where, and how Haiti can take its place.
Build a solid, honest technical foundation: what AI does, what it does not do, and what it requires.
Move from principles to real trade-offs: bias, accountability, privacy and human rights.
Translate ethics into public policy, standards and institutions that can hold over time.
Put it into practice: simulation, policy labs and the drafting of national recommendations.
Method
The programme avoids the top-down lecture format. Each day alternates structured input and hands-on work, so participants leave with working habits, not only notions.
Target audience
Selection deliberately seeks diversity: a regulator, a journalist, a network engineer and a law student do not approach AI governance in the same way — and that is precisely the point.
Hybrid model
Sessions are delivered simultaneously from five locations connected through a national virtual platform. Each hub provides local facilitation: interactive discussions, collaborative exercises and networking take place in person, within each region.
Haiti IGF — main venue
Hotel Montana
Hosts the national Forum on 5 November 2026 and the broadcast to all connected hubs.
HaitiSIG — main hub
Faculty of Sciences (FDS)
Production centre for the School from 26 to 30 October 2026: studio, control room and national facilitation.
Connected hub
École Supérieure d’Infotronique d’Haïti (ESIH)
Host hub for both the School and the Forum, with local facilitation and group work.
Regional hub
Venue to be confirmed
Participation from the Grand’Anse department in the School and the Forum, with local facilitation.
Regional hub
Venue to be confirmed
Participation from the Artibonite department in the School and the Forum, with local facilitation.
Regional hub
Venue to be confirmed
Participation from the North department in the School and the Forum, with local facilitation.
On completion
Learning is assessed throughout the week. A certificate of participation may be awarded to those who meet the attendance requirements and complete the knowledge assessments.
What the edition produces
Beyond the people trained, the 2026 edition leaves durable structures behind: networks, working groups and recommendations that feed into the national Forum.
Running threads
These topics are not isolated sessions: they run through all five days, because they also run through real public policy.
Graduates of the School take part in the Haiti IGF on 5 November 2026 as moderators, rapporteurs, speakers, facilitators and youth ambassadors. The training is not an endpoint: it is an entry into the process.