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Here you will find different aspects of what I am entertaining myself with:

 

MY RESEARCH

I am interested in understanding the role of information and knowledge in social, economic and political development. Specifically, I am focusing on the consequences of and requisites for the digitization of information and communication processes.

 

Currently I am on a leave from my responsibilities with the United Nations and have joined:

University of Southern California (USC), Annenberg School for Communication

Current favorite quotes:

  "The ideas of economists and political philosophers both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas." (John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, ch. 24)
 
"Although I am fully convinced of the truth of the views given in this volume..., I by no means expect to convince experienced naturalists whose minds are stocked with a multitude of facts all viewed, during a long course of years, from a point of view directly opposite to mine... [B]ut I look with confidence to the future, -to young and rising naturalists, who will be able to view both sides of the question with impartiality" (Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, II 295-96).

Before joining USC, I've been coordinating the Information Society Programme of the United Nations Regional Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN ECLAC) for ten years (more widely known under its Spanish acronym CEPAL).

 

...besides you can find some other (less professional) content that has accumulated over recent years on this webpage...