Nathalia Foditsch

Writing about frontier technologies and the role openness could play in keeping democratic oversight over them. Updating the open definition is an urgent, delicate pending task.

Infrastructural power: State strategies for internet control This article explores how governments, shifting from an anti-interventionist stance and views of regulatory impossibility, are embracing an infrastructural turn through strategies that include hijacki...

The article is available in open access at policyreview.info/articles/ana... .

With thanks to Francesca Musiani, Nathalia Foditsch, Carolina Batista Israel, Hernan Galperin, Lucía Bosoer, as well as participants of #PTCouncil #FU_Berlin (Scripts) & #SOTN for their valuable feedback & suggestions!

#lithium rising: the race is on

How ‘open’ is open-source AI? Exploring how the AI Act regulates open-source AI

When can an AI system really be labelled 'open source'?

Our latest guest blog post examines the Open Source Initiative's definition and how it might intersect with AI regulation, such as the EU AI Act.

www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/how-ope...

Really glad to have spent this last week in Oslo, at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum #IGF2025, meeting many old and new friends, and having the chance to present our research on #AI… | Lu... Really glad to have spent this last week in Oslo, at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum #IGF2025, meeting many old and new friends, and having the chance to present our research on #AI, #Dig...

As usual, I have learned a lot from each discussion I had with fellow co-panelists, including @ianbrown.tech @foditsch.bsky.social @chrismarsden.bsky.social @avilarenata.bsky.social @kremerbia.bsky.social @apc.org @dcorg.bsky.social and many more www.linkedin.com/posts/1lucab...

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about dangers of AI.

Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini

And many many more in/outside academia.

Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
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10 passkey survival tips: The best preparation for a password-less future is to start living there now Although passkeys remain an evolving ecosystem, we'd be wise to embrace tomorrow's authentication standard today. Here are ZDNET's 10 recommendations for reaching passkey paradise.

www.zdnet.com/article/10-p...

When You Wish Upon a Star(link) | TechPolicy.Press Satellite and fiber broadband are not equal, and any policy that treats them as such will widen the very divide we're trying to bridge, writes Christopher Ali.

Satellite and fiber broadband are not equal, and any policy that treats them as such will widen the very divide policymakers should be trying to bridge, writes Christopher Ali. www.techpolicy.press/when-you-wis...

Geralmente concluímos que a pessoa não merece todo este esforço mental e emocional

📣 The Call for Proposals for the #OFASymposium2025 is now live! (Deadline: June 1st) #opensource

🌐 This year's edition of the Symposium, hosted at Fundação Getulio Vargas Direito Rio (Law School), will be themed "Open Technology Impact in Uncertain Times" - meet me in Rio November 18th-19th: (1/n)

Opinião | Nem um, nem outro: por que o imbróglio da Starlink vai muito além de uma simples disputa judicial O verdadeiro desafio é fomentar o desenvolvimento de um ecossistema nacional robusto. O Brasil já conta com casos de sucesso que demonstram ser possível conectar regiões remotas sem depender exclusiva...

"[...]O Brasil já conta com casos de sucesso que demonstram ser possível conectar regiões remotas sem depender exclusivamente de satélites de órbita baixa (LEOs)" Por Nathalia Foditsch e Luã Cruz (razões para ler o Estadão!) www.estadao.com.br/politica/blo...

ISP OSS - Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund Enhancing sustainability for Internet Service Providers connecting those most in need

Topic: Sustainability & Community Impact

- Sustainability for Community-Focused ISPs in Brazil (Nathalia Foditsch):


Leveraging FOSS to expand affordable internet access while improving oper. sustainability.
infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/isp...

Impact of USAID Withdrawal on Global Education and Skills Development

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Connect Humanity 2024 Highlights 10 ways Connect Humanity and our partners advanced broadband and community development in 2024.

In 2024, we focused on empowering communities to build the connectivity needed to thrive. From Appalachia to the Rio Grande Valley and beyond, we’ve saw firsthand how broadband drives economic growth, fuels innovation, and transforms lives.

🔗 Find out how: connecthumanity.fund/story/connec...

Why even physicists still don’t understand quantum theory 100 years on Quantum mechanics depicts a counter-intuitive reality in which the act of observation influences what is observed — and few can agree on what that means.

"Why even physicists still don’t understand #quantum theory 100 years on"

" #Quantummechanics depicts a counter-intuitive reality in which the act of observation influences what is observed — and few can agree on what that means"

#nature

www.nature.com/articles/d41...