Sara Ortiz

Sara Ortiz is a Communications and Project Manager at Data-Pop Alliance. She has a BA in Political Science from the Universidad de los Andes with a minor in Development Studies. She also volunteered as an environmental activist with the youth organization PactoXElClima and was a member of the research seedbed in the Universidad de Los Andes of Political Protest and Popular Change in the Global South. Sara has worked as a translator and social media content creator for Fundación Full Potential. She has also volunteered in Emergency, an Italian NGO who works with refugees. Her main interest and research experience revolve around international development, sustainable development, refugees and migration flows, international relations and Global South cooperation.

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Our “Overview and Outlook 2022-2024” is Out!

Download the “Overview and Outlook 2022-2024” Report 10 Year Anniversary Edition Finding appropriate metrics to summarize a decade of work by and at Data-Pop Alliance is not easy. It could be the number of projects completed (over 100), of our...

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LWL #44 Data Activism: Empowering Change through Insight

LINKS WE LIKE #44 “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any” – Alice Walker In today’s digital age, data is everywhere. From social media posts and online transactions to government records...

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LWL #43 A Whole New Ballgame: AI and Big Data in Sports

LINKS WE LIKE #43 Around the world, sports teams are always on the lookout for ways to improve their game and gain a competitive edge. Traditionally, coaches and players have relied on intuition, personal experience, and gut feelings to make...

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LWL #42 From the Killing of Mahsa Amini to a Social Media Revolution: An Account of the Protests in Iran

LINKS WE LIKE #42 “Woman, Life, and Freedom” Chant of Ongoing Protests in Iran On September 13, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran’s morality police for “improperly” wearing her hijab. Three days later, after being held captive in...

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Experiencia de Gaby Beatriz Quispe en el Taller Big Data y análisis de salud para el desarrollo sostenible

DATA LITERACY SERIES (Text in Spanish / English) Entrevistadora: Sara Ortiz Project & Communications Manager DPA Entrevistada: Gaby Beatriz Quispe Consultora y docente La Fundación de Waal En esta nueva “Serie de Alfabetismo de Datos” entrevistamos a participantes que han...

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LWL #40 Engineering the Future? AI Laboratories Around the World

LINKS WE LIKE #40 It seems that we are witnessing significant progress in the development of AI systems and technologies almost daily. Behind the scenes, there are many dedicated organizations, laboratories, and research centers that are working arduously towards finding...

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LWL #39 The Data Police: How AI and Big Data are Reshaping Crime Prevention

LINKS WE LIKE #39 Imagine being able to detect crime hotspots in your city, use facial recognition software to match camera footage from a robbery with a database of images, or even predict the likelihood of a crime (including time...

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LWL #38 Algorithmic Justice: The Next Civil Rights Frontier?

LINKS WE LIKE #38 “The first duty of society is justice” – Wendell Phillips When you think of “civil rights”, many things probably come to mind. Generations-long struggles for racial or gender equality and equal protection for other disenfranchised communities...

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LWL #37 The Future of Health? How Big Data and AI are Reshaping Modern Medicine

LINKS WE LIKE #37 Health care is one sector for which the massive amount of data produced daily holds great promise. Data from electronic health records, medical devices and health-related apps (and other sources) has grown so large that they...

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LWL #36 Crisis Data: New Technology and Humanitarian Emergencies

LINKS WE LIKE #36 Accurate data is pivotal to identifying and responding to the needs of those impacted by a variety of shocks, including violent conflicts, environmental disasters, epidemics, and other life-threatening emergencies. By gathering and processing personal, public, and...

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LWL#35 The Future of Financial Inclusion: How New Technologies are Reshaping FinTech

LINKS WE LIKE #35 Financial inclusion, or access to formal financial services, (such as bank accounts, credit, and loans) is one of the most valuable tools for breaking cycles of poverty. Unfortunately, an estimated 1.7 billion people worldwide remain “unbanked”,...

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LWL #34 The Creative Arts and AI: The Ultimate Collaboration (or Competition?)

LINKS WE LIKE #34 Repetitive, structured, and monotonous are adjectives often associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Normally these tools are not linked with being creative, let alone with the creation of art. However, in recent years...

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Gender Data Series: How Can Data be Leveraged to Combat Sexual Harassment and Abuse in the Workplace?

GENDER DATA SERIES The “Gender Data Series” includes interviews, videos, and opinion articles with experts from around the globe. The goal of this project is to shed light on issues at the intersection of gender and data; such as health,...

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LWL #32 Facebook, the Promise and the Peril

LINKS WE LIKE #32 When speaking about the purpose of his company, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been quoted as saying, “By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.” This leads to a very important...

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LWL #31 Online Harassment and AI Content Moderation: Countering Threats to Freedom of Expression

LINKS WE LIKE #31 The emergence and popularity of new social networks has opened space for a multitude of virtual interactions between people from diverse backgrounds. Consequently, the internet allows anyone to become a “communicator”, with access to a wide...

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LWL #30 AI and ML for People with Disabilities: Innovations and Challenges

LINKS WE LIKE #30 One of the biggest opportunities that Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies have opened up is the chance to design solutions that can positively impact the lives of people with disabilities. According to the World Health...

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LWL #29 Blockchain and its Application to Collective Challenges

LINKS WE LIKE #29 Although it has most commonly been associated with cryptocurrency, since its release in 2008 with the white paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”, the blockchain system has been always praised for its potential to transform...

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LWL #28 Can Data and AI be Used as a Weapon to Fight Corruption?

LINKS WE LIKE #28 Corruption is a major challenge for governments, companies, and societies all around the world. It is an expensive criminal and cultural practice. According to the UN, an estimated one trillion dollars are paid in bribes annually,...

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LWL #27 The Role of Big Data and AI in Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)

LINKS WE LIKE #27 One of the biggest promises of the “data age” is the creation of tools that will allow us to keep track and evaluate the performance of different projects and policies more efficiently. The main appeal of...

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LWL #26 Open Source Licenses and Accessibility for AI Models

LINKS WE LIKE #26 The rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models has been accompanied by growing efforts to make these technologies accessible and available to non-experts through what is referred to as open-source licenses. As a result of this...

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8M: Reporte y registro de violencia doméstica en Bogotá, Ciudad de México y São Paulo

DISCUSSION PIECE Sobre el Día Internacional de la Mujer (8M) Alrededor del mundo el Día Internacional de la Mujer se conmemora cada 8 de Marzo (también referido como 8M) con el objetivo de crear conciencia y alentar la reflexión crítica...

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LWL #25 Discrimination in Data and Artificial Intelligence

LINKS WE LIKE #25 In commemoration of the international Zero Discrimination Day, and following the call to action from the president of the United Nations General Assembly Volkan Bozkir to “call out discrimination when we see it and advocate for...

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LWL #24 Fighting Misinformation with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

LINKS WE LIKE #24 We are currently living in the age of information and data. Whether it be through news outlets or social media, everyday we are bombarded with hundreds of images and headlines that come in the shape of...

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LWL #23 Harnessing Big Data for Mobility and Migration

LINKS WE LIKE #23 In 2019, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated that the number of migrants worldwide had reached 272 million, a figure that has tripled since 1970. Though most of these migrants fled their countries searching for...

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Violence Against Women in Latin America: The Multiple Facets of a Pervasive Issue

DISCUSSION PIECE Photo: Analise Benevides. Edition: Paola Caile. November 25 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, a date that serves as a global reminder of what it is now refered to as the “shadow pandemic”...

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LWL #22 Gender, Violence and Data

LINKS WE LIKE #22 In Latin America and the Caribbean, women have been commemorating the Elimination of Violence against Women Day ever since 1981, after the assassination of the three Dominican sisters Patricia, Minerva, Maria Teresa Mirabal. Yet, it only...

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LWL #21 Elections, Democracy and Big Data

LINKS WE LIKE #21 With the upcoming presidential election in the U.S., media outlets such as ABC News and The Economist, and even scholars like Alan L. Abramowitz, have searched for creative and insightful ways to use big data and...