Joan Lopez Solano

Bio

I am a Research and policy officer at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) in the Global Data Justice project. I am a historian from the Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) with an M. A. in Sociology from Bielefeld University (Germany). Before joining Tilburg University, I worked for four years at Fundación Karisma, a Colombian civil society organization working on human rights in digital mediated technologies. My work was to research the impacts of data-intensive systems on the fundamental rights of vulnerable communities. My areas of expertise include the data systems used for social assistance, biometric identification systems for vulnerable migrant, and international development on ICTs. 

Recent publications

1. The case of the Solidarity Income in Colombia - The experimentation w…

   Lopez, J. (2021). The case of the Solidarity Income in Colombia: The experimentation with data on social policy during the pandemic. In S. Milan, E. Trere, & S. Masiero (Eds.), COVID-19 from the margins: Pandemic invisibilities, policies and resistance in the datafied society (pp. 126-129). Institute of Networked Cultures.

2. Useless and dangerous - A critical exploration of Covid applications …

   Lopez Solano, J., Castaneda, J. D., & Valdes, J. (2021). Useless and dangerous: A critical exploration of Covid applications and their human rights impacts in Colombia. Fundacion Karisma.

3. Automation, digital technologies and social justice - Experimenting w…

   Lopez, J., & Castaneda, J. D. (2020). Automation, digital technologies and social justice: Experimenting with poverty in Colombia. In C. Aguerre (Ed.), Artificial intelligence in Latin America and the Caribbean: Ethics, governance and policies Universidad de San Andrés.

4. Experimenting with poverty - The SISBEN and data analytics projects i…

   Lopez, J. (2020). Experimenting with poverty: The SISBEN and data analytics projects in Colombia. Fundacion Karisma.