Speakers

Silvana Fumega is the the Global Data Barometer Project Director as well as the Research and Policy Director of ILDA. She holds a PhD from University of Tasmania, Australia. She also holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and a degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). She has served as a consultant for several international organisations, governments and civil society groups. In the past few years she has focused her work on the intersection of data and inclusion.

Nicolás Grossman is Research and Data Lead at the Global Data Barometer Project. He is a sociologist and journalist specialising in Open Data and GIS. For more than 7 years he has led Open Data and Data Journalism in Latin America.He has participated as a speaker at numerous open data events in Argentina and Latin America and has run data journalism workshops for prominent journalists from some of the most important newsrooms in Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia. In 2018 he founded Socios.red, a web tool that supports government transparency in Argentina by connecting information about companies, political parties, and governments. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and is concluding his Master’s studies in International Political Sociology at the National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), studying the challenges and risks of big data and AI from the perspective of less developed countries.