Nathalia Foditsch
foditsch.bsky.social
Nathalia Foditsch
@foditsch.bsky.social
International Connectivity Policy and Regulation | Digital Inclusion | Impact Finance | Social Impact
Work: US/LAC/EMEA/APAC.

www.foditsch.com
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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.
July 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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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!
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...
policyreview.info
May 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
#lithium rising: the race is on
August 6, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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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...
How ‘open’ is open-source AI?
Exploring how the AI Act regulates open-source AI
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org
July 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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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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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
www.rollingstone.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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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...
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.
www.techpolicy.press
April 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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📣 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)
April 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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"[...]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...
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...
www.estadao.com.br
September 4, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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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...
ISP OSS - Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund
Enhancing sustainability for Internet Service Providers connecting those most in need
infrastructureinsights.fund
November 25, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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Impact of USAID Withdrawal on Global Education and Skills Development

www.etf.europa.eu/en/publicati...
Impact of USAID Withdrawal on Global Education and Skills Development | ETF
www.etf.europa.eu
April 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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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...
Connect Humanity 2024 Highlights
10 ways Connect Humanity and our partners advanced broadband and community development in 2024.
connecthumanity.fund
January 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
"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...
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.
www.nature.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM