Our Teams

<A+> Alliance global co-leaders

Associate Professor in Computer Engineering at Centro Académico de Alajuela, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Co-founder of Laboratorio Experimental research and extension group. His research is on how free geospatial software can support people from vulnerable communities to produce and manage their own open data for decision making, and how to involve Computer Engineering undergrad students in the process.

Associate professor in Computer Engineering, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Since 2014, Academic Councillor in University Council, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. She is a gender and human rights expert with a background in STEM. Her research is on how to decrease the gender gap in STEM and digital gaps for vulnerable communities with education, mobiles, data projects. Since 2019 and to date, she serves as researcher of the WSTEM project, an Erasmus + Project. W‐STEM Project aims at improving strategies and mechanisms of attraction, access and guidance of Women in Latin-American STEM Higher Education programs.

Latin America Caribbean LAC Regional Hub leader

Associate Professor,Department of Media and Digital Culture, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. She was an Edmundo O'Gorman Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University (2018). She is co-founder (with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejías) of Tierra Común, a network to promote reflection on data colonialism from the Global South. Her work focuses on the critical study of digital technologies from a decolonial and feminist perspective.

Middle East North Africa MENA Regional Hub Leader

Executive Director of JOSA. In addition to being an ICT consultant, Issa's fields of expertise include human rights and technology, cyber laws, Internet governance, privacy, and digital security. In the last few years, he worked as Jordan’s research analyst for the Freedom on the Net report and co-led different campaigns to support freedom of expression online, and to introduce Jordan’s first Personal Data Protection law. Appointed by the Jordanian Prime Minister as a member of the ICT Advisory Council of Jordan (ICTAC), Issa is also a representative of civil society in the Joint Committee on Open Government Data, established by the Government of Jordan.

SouthEast Asia Regional Hub Leader

Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Science, Technology and Society at Chulalongkorn University. He has published books and articles on such diverse issues as bioethics, computer ethics, and the roles that science and technology play in the culture of developing countries. His concern is mainly on how science and technology can be integrated into the life-world of the people in the so-called Third World countries, and what kind of ethical considerations can be obtained from such relations. A large part of this question concerns how information technology is integrated in the lifeworld of people, and especially how such integration is expressed in the use of information technology in education.