Data & ICTs

Language Models in Spanish

Modelos de Lenguaje en Español

AI

LLM

Hugging Face

One of the topics discussed during the 2nd Ministerial Meeting on AI Ethics in LAC was the need for the region to advance in the development of language models in…

Ministerial Summit on the Ethics of AI in LAC

Cumbre Ministerial sobre la Ética de la IA en LAC

AI

AWS

OpenAI

On October 3 and 4 in Montevideo, Uruguay, the 2nd Ministerial and High-Level Authorities Summit on Artificial Intelligence Ethics in Latin America and the Caribbean took…

STEM Movie Recommendations

Recomendaciones de películas STEM

Películas

Movies

Series

STEM

Here are reviews and recommendations of STEM movies and series, in no particular order:

STEM Book Recommendations

Recomendaciones de libros STEM

Libros

Books

STEM

STEM book recommendations that I enjoyed (in no particular order)

On Regulatory Simplification

Sobre Simplificación Regulatoria

Análisis de Grafos

Graph Analysis

At the last Internet Day, organized by the Argentine Chamber of Internet (CABASE) on May 17 and 18, one of the topics discussed was regulatory simplification. How can we…

ICT Infrastructure Subsidies Analysis

Análisis de Subsidios para Infraestructura TIC

ANR

In Argentina, as in many other countries, there is a fund made up of contributions from companies in the ICT sector with the goal of bringing services to populations that…

REFEFO Potential to Enhance Productive Connectivity

El Potencial de la REFEFO para Mejorar la Conectividad Productiva

REFEFO

Productive Connectivity

Most countries in the region have some sort of strategy to improve digital connectivity for vulnerable populations, for those who live in low density areas where the private…

Using Whisper to Transcribe Messi

Transcribir a Messi con Whisper

NLP

IA

ML

Python

Messi

Whisper is an open source model for speech recognition developed by OpenAI.

Beckham vs. Papu Gomez

Beckham vs. Papu Gomez

This post is not about ICTs. It’s about using AI to classify images. In this case we take a controversy that came up during the World Cup in a stream of Kun Aguero, where…

Forum on Equality and the Digital Divide

Foro Brechas y Equidad Digital

The Forum on Equality and the Digital Divide was held on June 9 and 10. In this context, I was invited to speak at the panel “Universal Access Funds in the Region: the case…

ICT Companies Social Network Analysis

Análisis de Empresas TIC en Redes Sociales

NLP

social networks

Natural Language Processing or NLP is the field of study on computational analysis of human language. This area of knowledge includes a very wide variety of techniques and…

Internet Fix Access Dashboard for Argentina

Tablero de Accesos Fijos a Internet en Argentina

It is possible to make a dashboard with basic data on fix access in Argentina very quickly (about 30 minutes), with open data from ENACOM, open source tools (in this case R, …

Using Satellite Images

Usando Imágenes Satelitales

Satellite remote sensing or satellite remote sensing is the activity of collecting data through the use of sensors, in this case satellites, from a place to which there is…

ICT Prices Evolution

Evolución de los precios

Internet Submarine Cables

Cables Submarinos de Internet

Some time ago Tyler Morgan-Wall made a visualization of all the submarine internet cables with Telegeography data.

30 Day Map Challenge Day 3 and 4

Día 3 y 4 del Desafío de Mapas de 30 Días

Note: for those interested in the code used to generate each visualization, you can see it by clicking the “Show/Hide All Code” button at the top right of the page or the…

30 Days Map Challenge Day 1 and 2

30 Days Map Challenge Día 1 y 2

Note: for those interested in the code used to generate each visualization, you can see it by pressing the “Show/Hide All Code” button at the top right of the page or the…