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Reunión ministerial en Madrid con banderas iberoamericanas y un holograma de cerebro digital que representa la inteligencia artificial
Representación de la reunión ministerial en Madrid donde se acordó la Alianza Iberoamericana de Inteligencia Artificial. · Imagen generada por EPM

Ibero-American countries agree in Madrid on an artificial intelligence alliance

Ibero-American countries agreed in Madrid to create the Ibero-American Artificial Intelligence Alliance, open to voluntary membership, with three pillars…

--- The context --- Ibero-American countries agreed in Madrid to create the Ibero-American Artificial Intelligence Alliance, a regional agreement to strengthen Ibero-American digital and cultural sovereignty and build a common agenda. The document will be submitted for adoption to the Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, which will take place on November 4 and 5 in the Spanish capital, and the Alliance remains open, on a voluntary basis, to the member states of the Ibero-American Conference. --- The facts --- The Alliance will be structured around three pillars: cooperation on access to quality data, respecting each country's rules and control; the development of artificial intelligence models adapted to Ibero-American languages and needs; and collaboration on computing capacity to support useful applications for researchers, administrations and businesses. It will also support the creation of an Ibero-American Data Space for systems of public interest for the region. That space is not conceived as a single regional database, but as a federated space where each country decides what information it shares and under what conditions. The Alliance will promote language models that improve the representation of Spanish, Portuguese, other official languages and Indigenous languages and tongues, building on prior initiatives such as ALIA, AMALIA, LATAM GPT promoted by Chile and SoberanIA of Brazil, and it envisages cooperation on access to computing without creating new regional infrastructure. --- The positions --- Minister Óscar López stressed at a press conference that Ibero-America is committed to sovereign, ethical, open and trustworthy artificial intelligence, serving the more than 700 million people who live in Ibero-America. Ibero-American Secretary General Andrés Allamand said the aim is to build a sovereign position that allows decisions on technologies without impositions, according to what was expressed during the meeting. --- What remains unknown --- The initiative forms part of the Madrid Declaration, signed at the ministerial meeting, with a shared vision on rights, sustainability, inclusion, security and privacy, and opportunities in health and education. The meeting also validated the Ibero-American Standards on Data Protection and on Identification and Interoperability in Digital Government Services, non-binding frameworks, and the agreements fall under the Ibero-American Charter of Principles and Rights in Digital Environments. Membership will be voluntary, with public financial or in-kind contributions from each country, regulated by a common governance model. --- Unanswered questions --- Which countries will join the Alliance first and with what concrete contributions? How will each country decide in practice what data it shares within the federated space? Which use cases in health or education will be the first to be deployed across the region? --- EPM analysis --- The agreement is described as the main digital outcome of the Ibero-American Summit. Its practical reach will depend on whether cooperation on data, models and computing becomes useful applications, while keeping national control over information and expanding the presence of the region's languages in the systems deployed. The Ibero-American Digital Forum, hosted by the Real Fábrica de Moneda y Timbre with four presentations and four panels, accompanied this ministerial convergence process. 📌 EPM Take: In EPM's view, the alliance matters because of its federated design: each country keeps control of its data, decides what to share and under what conditions, and yet the region gains scale to train models in Spanish, Portuguese and Indigenous languages. That combination of sovereignty and cooperation answers a broad social need, because artificial intelligence built for more than 700 million people should reflect their languages, their rights and their public priorities in health and education, without depending entirely on outside platforms for essential capabilities.
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