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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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.

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 Program
Florencia Beati Venturini

Graphic Designer
Mónica Castellanos

Assistant
Mía Grosmark

Academic Program
Florencia Beati Venturini

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.

María Pilar
Llorens
PhD in Law and Social Sciences and Lawyer, Faculty of Law of the National University of Cordoba. Member of the Red Latinoamericana de Investigación en Ciberseguridad and the Global Partnership for Responsible Cyber Behaviour. Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Córdoba and visiting professor at the University of San Andrés. She researches on issues related to the regulation of cyberspace and artificial intelligence.
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.

Christian Perrone
Affiliated expert
Consultant un Public Policy, International Law and Human Rights specialized in international aspects of law and technology. PhD in International Regulation and Technology split site UERJ and Georgetown University, LLM in International Law and Human Rights at University of Cambridge, and Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown Law School on Jurisdiction and data protection.

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
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
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, Daniel Castaño Parra, María Solange Maqueo, Alejandra Martínez Iglesias, Jimena Moreno and Alexandre Zavaglia Pereira Coelho.
CETyS Reports
2024
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2023
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2022
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2021
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2020
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