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Ivana Feldfeber built the tool that counts what the court files left out
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Argentina had almost no data on violence against women and LGBTI people, so a gender-data observatory and one criminal court built software that hides the victims' names and turns what is left into numbers anyone can use.
The person and the place
Ivana Feldfeber is CEO and co-founder of DataGénero, a gender-data observatory in Argentina. Another co-founder, Yasmín Belén Quiroga, is the secretary of Criminal, Contravention and Minor Offenses Court No. 10 in Buenos Aires, and studied data analysis on top of law. The two ends of this story were already connected by a person who worked at both.
The problem they cared about
"We found that there was no data on the violence and inequalities that many Latin American women and LGBTI people live with on a daily basis," Feldfeber told KTH. "Often, there was not even data on the gender of the victim of the violence." Two official sources existed, one office inside the Supreme Court and one national registry, and the registry's reports stopped at 2018.
The agency moment
Court No. 10 had already spent a decade publishing its decisions, at first by scanning rulings with the names painted out by hand with correction fluid. DataGénero, working with specialists in Mexico and Sweden under a call from the A Plus Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms, built AymurAI to do that part properly: it reads a digitized ruling, swaps out the names and identifying details, and lifts the rest into structured fields: the kind of violence alleged, the gender of the people involved, how the accused was related to the person reporting, where it happened, and how the court ruled. Nothing is automatic. "Es importante entender que la IA nunca debería resolver sola de manera autónoma", Quiroga and Feldfeber told Infobrisas. A person validates every result, and the software installs on the court's own servers so the files never travel to anyone's cloud.
What changed, with evidence
Judge Pablo Casas, who runs Court No. 10, says the anonymizing that used to take ten minutes now takes three, and counts the difference as time returned to advising the people in front of the bench. The opened data has become something researchers can work with: analyses run by court staff and by students at the Escuela Argentina de Datos found that in 86% of the court's 2025 gender-violence resolutions, the accused was a partner, an ex-partner, or a family member of the woman who reported. The Buenos Aires judiciary's AI standardization committee formally approved AymurAI on September 24, 2025. It is free, it installs on local servers, and it now anonymizes in Spanish across more than 30 categories, in courts from Chaco to Tucumán and in a prosecutor's office in Costa Rica.
The move worth copying
The tool is the second half of this story. The first half is that a single court decided its own records belonged to the public and published them in a form other people could actually use, which is what left something to count. Know a clerk, a registrar, or a records officer sitting on data nobody outside can read? That is where this starts. Feed the scout at goodinprogress.org.
"Es importante entender que la IA nunca debería resolver sola de manera autónoma, siempre tiene que haber una persona que la utilice y valide lo que la IA da como resultado" (It is important to understand that AI should never decide alone, autonomously. There always has to be a person using it and validating what the AI returns.) — Yasmín Quiroga and Ivana Feldfeber, Infobrisas
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