Reports
Cartographies of Technopolitical Resistance from the South
On August 12, 13, 19, and 20, a series of conversations took place at the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in the form of a training course entitled “Technologies Under Debate: A Toolkit for Understanding the Present.” Featuring presentations by Beatriz Busaniche, Enrique Chaparro, Nicolás Wolovick, and Margarita Trovato, this document is a summary based on transcripts of the lectures delivered during those sessions.
The trajectory of this publication begins with the geopolitical framework proposed by Beatriz Busaniche, who dismantles the official narrative promising to position Argentina as a “fourth power in artificial intelligence.” Busaniche demonstrates that the deregulation policies and strategic alignment promoted by Javier Milei’s government do not lead to the scientific forefront, but rather to the consolidation of a digital enclave economy.
Enrique Chaparro takes a conceptual and epistemological approach to the discourses sustaining the reign of Artificial Intelligence. Under the provocative title “Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Indigence,” he deconstructs the taxonomies crafted by Silicon Valley marketing and denounces the harmful habit of anthropomorphizing device behavior.
Nicolás Wolovick, Director of Supercomputing at the National University of Córdoba (UNC), introduces a key premise: a person’s digital citizenship today is directly determined by the computing power at their disposal.
Finally, Margarita Trovato exposes the gap between the normative “ought to be” of the Personal Data Protection Law (No. 25,326) and the actual practices of surveillance and mass data cross-referencing by the Argentine state.
Together, these perspectives share a common thread: the urgent need to defend Fundamental Rights within the geopolitical, technical, and legal dimensions of our present day.
Digital and AI sovereignty: four evidence-informed cases; background paper
This paper can be cited with the following reference: Benotti, L., Busaniche, B., Gómez, M. J. and Trovato, M. 2026.Digital and AI sovereignty: Four evidence-informed cases. Paris, UNESCO. Paper commissioned to support the development of policy briefs on AI governance in education. © UNESCO 2026
More information at https://www.vialibre.org.ar/en/we-presented-the-paper-digital-and-ai-sovereignty-four-evidence-informed-cases-at-unesco/
The State of Data: From registry to surveillance
This report analyses what the Argentine state can currently do with its citizens’ personal data and what safeguards exist against this power, in a context shaped by the use of technology.
It begins with a description of the data ecosystem that the Argentine state is currently building up, before going on to address the issue of inferred data. What is it? How is it protected? We take a look at the regulatory frameworks for data protection and their weaknesses, and then review some recent reforms that enable increased surveillance, with the aim of characterising and understanding the current landscape in which data processing technologies are deployed, and the associated risks in terms of citizens’ human rights.
Spyware Warning
Vía Libre, CELS, Democracia en Red and O.D.I.A. have drawn up this analysis, through which we aim to highlight the weaknesses in Argentina that put us at real risk of joining the list of countries where spyware is used for political persecution and the violation of fundamental rights.
Companies and governments claim that the use of spyware is limited to serious crimes, such as terrorism or organised crime. However, the number of cases of illegal use of this tool in countries as diverse as Saudi Arabia, Italy and the United States, and in our region in Mexico, El Salvador, Peru and Colombia, shows that once these tools are acquired by states, it is very difficult to prevent their deployment in illegal intelligence operations, even in countries with strong institutional frameworks.
Yearbook 2025
Artificial intelligence. How it is changing our world
We contributed to the publication ‘Artificial Intelligence: How It Is Changing Our World’ in the magazine ‘südlink’.