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Talk - Technology and Transitional Justice: Making visible the information infrastructure for war victims

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for Global Studies, Global Perspectives on Collective Memory of Conflict, Information Systems, and Community Agency, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Location
Room 210, Levis Faculty Center
Date
Nov 7, 2019   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Dr. Belén Albornoz, FLACSO Ecuador
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- Part of the CGS Global Migrations Series -

 

Technology and Transitional Justice: Making visible the information infrastructure for war victims

 

In transitional justice, technological information systems became fundamental tools for collecting, organizing, and protecting data about the groups in conflict, as well as facilitating the exchange of information between government agencies involved in the care of victims of war. In the case of the Colombian conflict, this talk will present the unintended impacts of these systems. how the definition of victim in the data constrained the system purposes. Finally, how, in practice, the victimizers become the primary beneficiaries of the application of the designed tools.

 

Belén Albornoz is a research professor at FLACSO Latin American Social Studies Faculty in Ecuador. Her research focuses on the relationships between science, technology, and society. In recent years, her work is focused on the analysis of public policies on science and technology. She has studied the phenomena of inclusion/exclusion in digital educational programs, privacy, and policies for closing the digital divide extensively. These topics brought her to cases of systems in transitional justice based on information and communications technologies. Prof. Albornoz has been an advisor on Science Policy in Latin America with the UN. Currently she is a Council Member for the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S); board member of The Society for the Studies of New and Emerging Technologies (SNET); and member of scientific board at the last biannual conference in Chile of the Latin American Society for Social Studies of Science and Technology (ESOCITE).

 

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