by Margarita Trovato This Friday, September 25, a new hearing was held in the ongoing legal case over the use of facial recognition in the City of Buenos Aires (Odia and others vs.GCABA). This session focused on a public tender promoted by the Buenos Aires City...
Luciana Benotti and Marcos Javier Gómez attended UNESCO's Digital Learning Week at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. The event took place from September 8 to 11. Under the theme “Education in the era of AI: Facts | Frictions | Frontiers”, Digital Learning Week...
As part of Digital Learning Week 2026, UNESCO opened a global consultation on the need to maintain education as a public good in the era of AI. This consultation is supported by the release of a series of discussion papers on the adoption and impact of AI in education...
During UNESCO's Digital Learning Week in Paris, France, the paper 'Digital and AI sovereignty: four evidence-informed cases' - authored by Luciana Benotti, Beatriz Busaniche, Marcos Javier Gómez, and Margarita Trovato, members of Fundación Vía Libre - was presented....
We attended ACL 2026, the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, held from July 2–7 in San Diego, California, USA. We took part in several events throughout the conference, with Guido Ivetta representing Fundación Vía Libre. Guido Ivetta...
by Beatriz Busaniche, from Ginebra. With an attendance of approximately 4,000 participants from around the world, the first segment of the United Nations-organized Global Dialogue on AI Governance concluded today in Geneva. The event was one of three major gatherings...
Everything indicates that the current technological and political landscape in Argentine is aligning with global trends of digital control and massive data processing. In this context, our country could become an experimental territory for the implementation of...
Throughout April, members of the organization participated in different venues of the Latin American Free Software Installation Festival (FLISOL), sharing reflections on AI, critical thinking, gender, and open technological alternatives. The events brought together...
Interest in teacher training received an immediate response: in just three hours, 600 teachers enrolled in the course Foundations of AI to Expand Cultural Horizons. Given the high demand, the Ministry of Education of Córdoba decided to increase capacity to 1,500...
From April 23–27, we participated in the International Conference on Learning Representations 2026 (ICLR), held this year in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ICLR is one of the world’s leading conferences in deep learning, bringing together thousands of researchers, students,...
From March 9 to 12, we participated in the Summit of AI in Latin America (SALA), held at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador), a space for gathering and debate on the present and future of artificial intelligence in the region. Human-Centered AI Luciana...
We were in New Delhi participating in the India AI Impact Summit 2026, an international gathering that brought together researchers and organizations to discuss the social, political, and educational impact of artificial intelligence. On February 18, as part of the...