From February 24 to 27, RightsCon 2025 will take place in Taipei, Taiwan, where Vía Libre will participate in various sessions. On Tuesday, February 25, Luciana Benotti, Beatriz Busaniche, and Guido Ivetta from Vía Libre, along with Maya Roy from the CivicAction Leadership Foundation, will present the session: “AI in Schools: Building Capacity to Identify Bias in Language Models with High School Teachers” in an online panel. They will share the work developed by Vía Libre’s AI team on the community-driven collection of linguistic resources for evaluating bias in language technologies, carried out throughout 2024 with high school teachers and students.
Every year, RightsCon brings together business leaders, policymakers, legal experts, government representatives, technologists, academics, journalists, and human rights advocates from around the world to address pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology.
For more information about this summit, you can visit the following link.
Registration is required to access this and other sessions.
Additionally, we will participate in the following sessions:
- Side event: “Strengthening the Human Rights Framework in AI Governance”
February 24 – 8:30 AM (Taiwan)Luciana Benotti and Beatriz Busaniche will take part in the RightsCon Summit, where this workshop will be held, organized by Access Now, AI Collaborative, RightsCon, and the Government of France.
The human rights framework is increasingly being sidelined in discussions on AI governance, despite the negative impacts of certain technologies on rights such as freedom of expression, privacy, and the right to life. The AI Action Summit, organized by France, prioritized the public interest, emphasizing the need to refocus AI governance around human rights. Governance efforts must be centered on democratic principles, transparency, and accountability, ensuring public participation while preventing technological abuse. Following the summit, a roundtable will be held at RightsCon to define next steps and establish a meaningful role for civil society in AI governance.
- Building Feminist AI in Latin America: Experiences from the Ground
February 25 – 5:45 PM (Online – Argentina)
In this unconference, activists, academics, and professionals will share their experiences in developing a more inclusive AI that advances human rights at #RightsCon 2025. Organized by the f<a+i>r Network, participants will include Laura Alonso Alemany from Vía Libre, Ivana Feldberg from DataGénero, Paola Ricuarte, Assoc. Prof. at Tec de Monterrey, Alejandra Josiowick from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, and Diana Mosquera from Diversa Studio.
- Size Really Does Matter: Rethinking AI Development to Avoid Marginalizing the Marginalized
February 26 – 9:00 AM (Taiwan – In Person)
Luciana Benotti has been invited to participate in this session alongside various experts, where she will share her Latin American perspective.
