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Goodbye 2024
We believe in a world in which technologies are at the service of communities and not used for exploitation, and it is in this sense that we insist on the development of projects that put every innovation in the hands of the people. This year, in agreement with the...
EDIA in Secondary Schools
In 2024, through the course “Tools to Explore Biases and Stereotypes in AI (HESEIA)” offered by Vía Libre, the Ministry of Education, and FAMAF - UNC, we reached 5,000 high school students across various localities in Córdoba, Argentina. In the video (you can enable...
Argentine Parliament: Fundación Vía Libre participated in the meeting to analyze Artificial Intelligence regulations.
On behalf of Fundación Vía Libre, Enrique Chaparro participated in the meeting of the Science, Technology and Productive Innovation Commission of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies. The meeting held last Tuesday, August 6, was the first of a series of meetings aimed at...
GenAI errors are different from human errors.
This article was published in the collection: "Towards AI Literacy: 101+ Creative and Critical Practices, Perspectives and Purposes" ((Abegglen, S., Nerantzi, C., Martínez-Arboleda, A., Karatsiori, M., Atenas, J., & Rowell, C. (2024). Toward AI Literacy: 101+...
With more than 500 registrants, on Saturday, June 1, the extension course "Tools to Explore Biases and Stereotypes of Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom" (RCD 205/2024 – FAMAF) was launched, organized by the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, and...
WIPO: SCCR45 ended with little agreements and few consensus
Once again, within the framework of the work of the Latin American Alliance for Fair Access to Knowledge, Fundación Vía Libre actively participated in the negotiations of the 45th Committee on Copyright and Related Rights at the World Intellectual Property...
“The artificial intelligence is out of context”
We start March reflecting on the impacts and consequences of AI from Denmark. Luciana Benotti, part of the AI ethics team, traveled to Copenhagen and participated in meetings of the Danish Philosophical Society. The discussion focussed on the implications of the rapid...
Justice defines whether facial recognition returns on the streets of Buenos Aires: how to audit the artificial surveillance?
This article was originally published on the DiarioAR website on February 19, 2024. Written by Beatriz Busaniche, Vía Libre Foundation. The system was implemented by the Buenos Aires Government to identify fugitives from Justice but, among other things, it served to...
Vía Libre presents itself as friends of the court in the case against RENAPER
On October 29, 2023, the Vía Libre Foundation appeared as amicus curiae (“friends of the court”) in the case where access to personal information housed in the database of the National Registry of Persons (RENAPER) is discussed. , which was the subject of a security...
Bye bye 2023
What a difficult year we have just had in Argentina. Economic crisis, uncertainty and a long electoral process that monopolized the agenda since mid-August. It is the end of a year in which our country took a political turn that few dared to predict years ago, but...
12° Free Software Conferences: updating the discussions
From September 13 to 16 we met between workshops, talks, corridors, and coffee breaks at the Free Software Conference. In different classrooms of the National University of Cordoba we met to listen, tell, learn, debate and build. The meeting took place and we grew in...
Vía Libre started legal actions to protect the electoral rights of the citizens of Buenos Aires.
By means of this action, Fundación Vía Libre requested the court to suspend the use of the system contracted to the firm MSA (Magic Software de Argentina) until the correct fulfillment of the right to vote is guaranteed in the context of this year's elections of...