Umut Pajaro Velasquez

Umut Pajaro Velasquez is the current Lead Facilitator at the Internet Society Gender Standing Group. They have a BA in Communications from the University of Cartagena, Colombia, and an MA in Cultural Studies from the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina. Currently, work as a researcher on issues related to education, digital rights, the ethics, and governance of AI. Focusing on finding solutions to biases towards gender, race, and other forms of diversity that are often excluded or marginalized in the constitution of the data that feeds these technologies. They were the Chair of the Gender Standing Group, and also the coordinator of YouthLACIGF and Youth IGF Colombia.

Had spoken and moderated at the Internet Governance Forum, Mozilla Festival, RightsCon, NetMundial+10, and other conventions on technology and digital rights, focusing mainly on AI, youth rights, and the rights of women and gender-diverse people. Were also a Mozilla Festival Wrangler 2022 and Mozilla Festival Ambassador 2022-2023, Lideres LACNIC 2.0 (2022), Fellow Policy Shaper LACNIC 2023, Open Life Science 7 Fellow 2023, and CAIDP Alumni Researcher 2022 and 2023, All Tech is Human mentee 2025 and PREreview 2025 Ambassador. Their main published research topics include mass media, the digital rights of youth, children, women, and gender-diverse people, cybersecurity as a human right, the ethics, and governance of Artificial Intelligence, and Internet governance.

Affiliation:

Internet Society Colombia Chapter

Internet Society Gender Standing Group

Region:

LAC

Country:

Colombia

Blog:

https://substack.com/@umutpajaro

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