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(Originally published on the Harvard Kennedy School website)
To mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School has published Self-Evident Truths: The 250-Year Pursuit of Human Rights in the United States of America, a collection of short reflections released on 4 July 2026. As a Technology and Human Rights Fellow (2025-26) at the Center, I contributed an op-ed, reproduced in full below.
(Originally published on the Harvard Kennedy School website)
Data is not an abstract resource; it is an extension of who we are.
On December 10, 1948, the international community adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 12 is unequivocal: “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy”. Nearly eighty years later, that promise feels increasingly hollow.
In the physical world, the boundaries of privacy are clear and widely accepted. We do not take our neighbor’s car without permission. We do not enter their home, sleep in their bed, or rummage through their drawers in their absence. If we do, the law intervenes. Privacy is understood as a basic condition of dignity and freedom.
So why have we failed to apply these same principles to the digital world?
(Originally published on the Harvard Kennedy School website)
In a plenary statement, the U.S. delegation announced its disengagement from several ad hoc groups, arguing that negotiations had drifted from the ITU’s core mandate into ideological or politicized territory. It called for a “back to basics” approach, limiting the ITU’s work to telecommunications and ICT development, and rejected references it viewed as infringing on national sovereignty, including the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Promoting and Advancing Human Rights in Global AI Ecosystems
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping societies, influencing everything from decision-making processes to international relations. While its transformative power holds immense potential, AI also raises critical concerns about human autonomy, privacy, discrimination, and accountability. The governance of AI must align with human rights principles, yet the current regulatory landscape remains fragmented and inconsistent.
The Mexican Flag
(Originally published in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)
Mexico has a long history with social security; the country’s first social security law was enacted in 1943. Today, the social security system is fragmented into several institutions that coexist with each other, but do not operate in an integrated manner. A huge gap exists between lawyers, policymakers, and implementers who should be working together closely to design practical, efficient, and actionable policies.
Infrastructure as a basis of the Internet
(Orginally posted in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs)
The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs contacted me last october to write an article about open data especially in the international development context. We agreed on an article about the Impact of a Move Towards Open Data in West Africa and I spent a couple of days at the Berkman Center working on this interesting problematic. the whole article is bellow and on the Georgetown website.
