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Technology and Transitional Justice: Making Visible the Information Infrastructure for War Victims

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for Global Studies
Location
Levis Faculty Center Room 210
Date
Nov 7, 2019   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Belén Albornoz
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Originating Calendar
Center for Global Studies: Events

- Part of the CGS Global Migrations Series -

Belén Albornoz is a research professor at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador (FLACSO). Her research focuses on the relationships between science, technology and society and in the analysis of public policies on science and technology. She has studied inclusion/exclusion in educational digital programs, privacy, and policies for closing the digital divide. She has also been an advisor on Science Policy in Latin America with the UN, currently is a Council Member for the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), and board member of The Society for the Studies of New and Emerging Technologies (SNET).

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In processes of transitional justice, technological information systems have become fundamental tools for organizing data and exchanging information between government agencies involved in the care of war victims. Programs such as the Interinstitutional Justice and Peace Information System (SIIJYP) in Colombia are intended to design services for the affected population and create aseptic sources to produce a memory of the acts committed. However, these information systems can have unintended consequences. Through an analysis of actor-networks, this talk addresses how the victimizers became the main beneficiaries of the application of the SIIJYP and how the definition of victim in the data constrained the system purposes. The tools presented establish ways to study these impacts from the human and non-human perspectives and consider how the efficiency of these systems is based on the invisibility of the information infrastructure.

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