Cetys

About us

The Center for Technology and Society Studies (CETyS) is an academic and cross-disciplinary space for research, education, and communication of the policies and the development of digital processes in the public sphere.  

Starting its activities in 2007, CETyS was managed by its founder Hernán Galperin, PhD, currently working as a professor at the University of Southern California (USC).

Nowadays, researchers and students from different disciplines of the CETyS work together in different projects and issues such as fintech, Internet governance, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, digital technologies regulation, Internet policy and economy, public policies, convergent communications, privacy, data protection, digital rights, electoral processes, intellectual property, philosophy of information, defense of the competition in digital markets, among others. 

CETyS is a center for Latin America located at the University of San Andrés (UdeSA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Carolina Aguerre UNESCO

Director

Carolina Aguerre

PhD. Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Global Cooperation Research GCR21, Universität Duisburg-Essen. Member of the UNESCO Expert Group in Recommendations on the AI Ethics. Researcher and professor of CETyS and University of San Andrés (UdeSA) focused on public policies and Internet governance. Honorary Director of CETyS.

pablo palazzi

Director

Pablo
Palazzi

Partner at Allende y Brea. Director of the International Diploma in Personal Data Protection (PDP) program. Editor of the Law and Technology Collection. Professor at CETyS and University of San Andrés (UdeSA). Lawyer focused on Internet law, data protection, Intellectual property, advertising law and technological transactions. Honorary Director of CETyS.

Executive Director

Fernanda Martinez

Master in Education by the University of San Andrés (UdeSA). Expert in education management. Researcher at CETyS focused on inclusion and digital literacy policies.

Communication and Institutional Affairs

Silvina Alkerman

Academic Programs

Florencia Beati Venturini

Mónica Castellanos

Graphic Designer

Mónica Castellanos

Research associates

Maia Levy Daniel

Specialist in artificial intelligence governance, platform regulation and content moderation. Public Policy Consultant at Wikimedia Argentina. She has been Director of Research and Public Policy at Centro Latam Digital in Mexico and has consulted for different agencies, among other relevant positions in the field of digital policies and regulation.

Juan Del Nido

PhD in Social Anthropology, B.A. in Economics. Member of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge. Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Researcher in ethics of technology, technological reasoning, moral economy of techno-solutionism, studying the affects, intuitions and economic and political logics of innovation.

Research affiliates

Fernanda Viecens

CONICET Researcher

PhD in Economics by the University Carlos III from Madrid. Researcher at CONICET and CETyS focused on digital regulation and competition, digital economy, online markets, Internet, payment markets economy and Fintech.

Sebastián M. Cabello

Affiliated expert

CEO at SmC+, a firm specializing in public digital issues. Expert in the regulation of telecommunications and digital economy, ICT public policies, sustainability campaigns, Chinese economy and Mercosur.

mica mantegna

Micaela Mantegna

Affiliated expert

Lawyer specialising in video game regulation, artificial intelligence, ethics and intellectual property. Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Law at the DTD Program. Research Affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center.

Carolina Gruffat

Affiliated expert

Design and management of innovation in education. Researcher at CETyS focused on Education in the Knowledge Society. Teacher and researcher in the Chair of Data of the Bachelor’s Degree of Communication at the University of Buenos Aires.

Brenda Dvoskin

Brenda Dvoskin

Affiliate expert

Doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School. Worked at the Center for Democracy and Technology on the freedom of expression project and as legal advisor to the Attorney General in Argentina arguing cases of freedom of expression and other cases of constitutional law before the Supreme Court.

Diego Canabarro

Diego Canabarro

Affiliated expert

PhD in Political Science. Senior Manager of Public Policies at Internet Society. Researcher associated with INCT-DD and CEGOV / UFRGS in Brazil. Specialization: ICT Policies and Regulation; Internet governance; digital transformation; digital government; ICT governance in the public sector; State capacity and democracy; cybersecurity.ur.

Research collaborators

Sofía Alamo, Delfina Ferracutti, Carla Gebetsberger, Pilar Hüppi Lo Prete, Matías Jackson Bertón, Iván Kirschbaum, Joaquín Maquieira Alonzo and Yamila Trautman.