Rethinking artificial intelligence from the Global South
On Wednesday, October 7, InfoCLACSO will be live on the YouTube channel and the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.
-Launch of the Observatory “Algorithmic Territories – Rethinking Artificial Intelligence from the Global South”
The overall objective of the project “Algorithmic Territories – Rethinking Artificial Intelligence from the Global South” is to achieve the production of evidence-based, critical, situated knowledge with a high impact on policy definition, public opinion formation and the positive transformation of the conditions of use of Artificial Intelligence from the Global South.
-Pablo VommaroExecutive Director of CLACSO
-Global South Modernization Forum 2026 in Egypt
Gustavo Lema, Director of Communication and Information of CLACSO, was at the Global South Modernization Forum 2026 convened by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the universities of Beijing, Renmin and Cairo.
Interviews:
Eric Hendriks, Dutch sociologist
Yang Bojiang, president and researcher at the Institute of Global Civilization
Mohamed El Gabry, Director of the African Disaster Mitigation Research Center.
Vinicius Padrao, Associate Professor at the Institute of Technology and Society in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
-The Global Alliance for Palestine
CLACSO participates in the events of the Global Alliance for Palestine From Friday, October 9th to Sunday, October 11th, whose main event will be a Global Day of Action on Saturday, October 10 with protests and coordinated activities around the world, with the participation of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences Network.
XXXV Latin American Congress of Sociology in Rio de Janeiro “Between polycrisis and alternatives: horizons of Latin American critical sociology”
Joint interview with the Ecuadorian academic René Ramírez, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, coordinator of the Science, Technology and Innovation Axis of the UNESCO CRES, and Carolina Jiménez Martín, Professor of Political Science at the National University of Colombia (Bogotá campus) and former member of the CLACSO Steering Committee.
The program for Wednesday, October 7, covers two of the axes of the Platforms for Social Dialogue that CLACSO is promoting for the coming years: “Democracies in dispute: horizons, resistances and construction of alternatives from the public and the common” and “Common knowledge: technologies, artificial intelligence, open science and territorial knowledge”.
She drives: Gustavo LemaDirector of Communication and Information at CLACSO
Directed and edited by: Guido Fontán
Production: Eric Domergue and Noelia Croci
Design and programming: Sebastián Higa, Christian Iturricha and Renata Maestrovicente
Open to the addresses of the Executive Secretariat and the members of the Steering Committee of CLACSO to disseminate activities and topics specific to each country, this communication channel is also a space to analyze and deepen the Platforms for Social Dialogue (PDS) that CLACSO promotes for the coming years, to interview researchers, and for everything that makes up the life and production of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences.
