Policy researcher at Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) in Singapore.

Head of Research Accelerator at The Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard University, and affiliate of the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Strategy, Research, and Operations Executive for Digital Transformation. Former Director of the Digital Initiative at Harvard Business School. I research Digital Technology Literacy to understand how to educate everyone for work and citizenship in a digital world.

I am head of MA Program in Intellectual Disability (ID) at the Faculty of Education, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. I head the Baker Research and Promotion Center of Toddlers and Children with Developemental Disabiltiies where toddllers and children with ID attend the university to learn reading and math skills. I am also head of the Lois Alberto Machado Research Chair on Cognitive Modifiability and Human Development. Within the chair, I intiated the Empwerment – Ozmot Project: Three stages of inclusion in the academic world of students with ID. In Stage 1 - Separate Model: Students with ID attend the university and receive academic enrichment. In Stage 2 they are included in a research seminar with typical peers. In Stage 3, six highly capable students with ID (with and without Down syndrome) are fully integrated in undergraduate courses. They have to date completed 40 out of 64 academic credits required for the BA degree. Based on their success, the Bar-Ilan University directors decided to register these six students as full-fledged students. They will receive a BA degree in Social Sciences.

Mariel García-Montes is a technology capacity builder and researcher from Mexico. She is a doctoral student at the History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her main topics of interest are privacy and information security, technological openness movements, social exclusions in technology, and participatory processes. Mariel has worked in communications, instructional design, and research around open data, privacy and security, strategic communications and other digital literacies for organizations in Mexico, the United States, and around the world.