Introduction
Assistant Professor of Cyberlaw and law in the digital information economy at Sciences Po Law School, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and Co-founder of the Edgelands Institute. Areas of expertise: Data governance, AI, Cities and Digitization, Digital Surveillance
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Dr. Beatriz Botero Arcila's research and expertise focus is on data governance in urban environments and how different governance frameworks have different impacts on people's lives. Recent work has explored modes of data governance in smart city projects, the sharing economy, and Covid contact tracing apps. (Link to SSRN https://bit.ly/3gUVZfw)
She is currently studying surveillance technologies adopted to provide public security both in Europe and the US and how they interact with other public interests (i.e. civil liberties) and institutional frameworks and incentives.
Dr. Botero Arcila is co-founder and head of research of The Edgelands Institute, an interdisciplinary pop-up institute whose core mission is to help communities redraw their urban social contract in our era of mass urbanization and surveillance. The Institute was incubated at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. She has also worked as a legal advisor for Tpaga, a fintech startup working on financial inclusion in Colombia; as an associate for Just Labs, a research and learning center focused on incubating innovative solutions to human rights challenges; and as a lecturer on cyberlaw in different universities.
Her expertise includes privacy law, data governance policy, municipal law, project design and legal strategy.
Fields of expertise: e-Transformation / e-Governance