Buenos Aires lottery regulator IPLyC teams up with Nexum Foundation to boost early detection of youth problem gambling

The new agreement focuses on prevention, awareness, and “early warning” tools—especially for teenagers—amid growing concern over illegal online gambling’s impact in the digital era.

The Provincial Institute of Lottery and Casinos (IPLyC) of Buenos Aires Province has signed a collaboration agreement with the Nexum Foundation to deepen public policies for the prevention and early detection of problem gambling, with a specific focus on young people and adolescents. The deal was signed in La Plata by IPLyC president Gonzalo Atanasof and Nexum Foundation president Pablo Carrera.

According to IPLyC, the partnership will create new spaces for training, dialogue, and awareness, expanding the public discussion around illegal online gambling and its effects on younger audiences. The parties also plan interdisciplinary sessions designed to support early alerts around a problem they describe as complex and often hard to detect.

Atanasof said the agreement builds on work launched last year through talks and meetings on youth gambling, adding a new civil-society partner to strengthen a prevention-led approach. Nexum, in turn, said the collaboration will contribute a “plural and responsible” perspective and push for collective responses.

The initiative is framed as part of Buenos Aires Province’s interministerial Plan for the Prevention and Treatment of Adolescent Gambling, which has been running for more than a year. It also fits a broader tightening of youth protections in the province, including prior measures aimed at preventing underage access to regulated online platforms.