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Webinar | AI Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries

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The webinar “AI Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries” was held on February 2, 2025 and, taking advantage of Brazil’s BRICS presidency, promoted a debate on strategies, policies and regulations adopted by the BRICS countries to assert Artificial Intelligence Sovereignty. The event was jointly organized by FGV Direito Rio’s Centre for Technology and Society (CTS) and … Read more

Webinar | Data Governance in the BRICS

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The Data Governance in the BRICS webinar was organized by FGV Direito Rio’s Centre for Technology and Society in partnership with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and aimed to provide an overview of the data governance architecture of the BRICS countries, with a special focus on the intersection between data and AI regulations. The … Read more

Call for Submissions for the Workshop on Digital Competition in the BRICS

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The BRICS Competition Law & Policy Centre and the Center for Technology and Society at FGV Direito Rio (CTS-FGV), is pleased to announce a Call for Submissions for a Workshop on Digital Competition in the BRICS, which will take place on November 27 and 28, 2025, at FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro. 

When AI Meets Cybersecurity: Framing Brazil’s Information Security and AI Challenges

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Published in the “Digital Democracy in a Divided Global Landscape” “When AI Meets Cybersecurity: Framing Brazil’s Information Security and AI Challenges” in published in the “Digital Democracy in a Divided Global Landscape” from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

BRICS promotes webinar on data economy in the digital economy community on March 18

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On 18 March, the Brazilian ministries of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services (Desenvolvimento, Indústria, Comércio e Serviços/MDIC) and Foreign Affairs (Relações Exteriores/MRE) hosted the webinar “Leveraging Data Economy in the BRICS Digital Economy Community”. The event was broadcasted live in English on the MDIC YouTube channel. As part of Brasil’s 2025 BRICS Presidency, the online seminar … Read more

Webinar | Digital Public Infrastructure for Sovereign AI

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The event ‘Digital Public Infrastructure for Sovereign AI’ brings together experts from different fields to discuss the role of digital public infrastructures in strengthening the technological sovereignty of the BRICS countries in the development of Artificial Intelligence. With the participation of fellows from CTS-FGV’s CyberBRICS project and guest experts, the event will address how these … Read more

UNESCO Internet For Trust Side-Event: Exploring the Potential and Challenges of Generative AI and impact on Regulating AI and Online Platforms

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Recent developments in Generative AI systems have sparked a global conversation about the capabilities and limitations of generative AI technology. These systems have been in the spotlight for their ability to generate human-like text, images, design, and even code, highlighting the tremendous potential of this technology. However, they have also raised concerns about ownership, transparency, … Read more

EU-Brazil Conference on AI Governance and Regulation

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This international event aims at exploring challenges and opportunities regarding Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance and regulation at a time when both the European Union and Brazil are elaborating legislative proposals to regulate comprehensively AI. Participants will explore the latest development in Artificial Intelligence policymaking offering their perspectives and highlighting intersections between AI and key areas … Read more

AI Regulation in Brazil: Advancements, Flows, and Need to Learn from the Data Protection Experience

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Paper by Luca Belli, Yasmin Curzi and Walter Britto Gaspar published at Computer, Law and Security Review Abstract Brazil has recently moved forward on two important developments in its regulatory framework for artificial intelligence: the creation of a national AI strategy and parliamentary discussions on an overarching AI law. These efforts follow considerable advances in … Read more

The Race to Regulate AI: Global Comparative Perspectives

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As AI systems are quickly becoming ubiquitous, so are the regulatory challenges: across the world, new models have begun to emerge at national, regional, and international levels. There is general consensus that existing instruments are insufficient, potentially even inadequate, to deal with the myriad challenges this development poses — but also considerable divergence on what … Read more

At the intersection of AI and data protection law: automated decision-making rules, a global perspective (CPDP latAm Panel)

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By Katerina Demetzou On Thursday, 15th of July 2021, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) organised during the CPDP LatAm Conference a panel titled ‘At the Intersection of AI and Data Protection law: Automated Decision Making Rules, a Global Perspective’. The aim of the Panel was to explore how existing data protection laws around the world apply to profiling … Read more

[BigDataSur-COVID] The pandemic and the new socio-digital order in the Global South: the case of São Paulo

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What happens when the digital city encounters large-scale disasters and pandemics like COVID-19? This article analyzes the case of São Paulo, Brazil, to illustrate how the pandemic contributes to emphasize a broad spectrum of inequalities. In the largest metropolis in Latin America, the population lives with a strong disparity of socioeconomic and cultural conditions, at … Read more

What is the problem with ‘Ethical AI’? An Indian Perspective

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By Arindrajit Basu & Pranav MB, lawyers and researchers at the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) and CyberBRICS Associated Scholars On 22 May 2019, the OECD member countries adopted the OECD Council Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence. The Principles, meant to provide an “ethical framework” for governing Artificial Intelligence (AI), were the first set of … Read more