Arlette Danielle Román Almánzar

Title of Dissertation:
Managing the Disruptive Impact of AI on Social Inequality and Diplomacy: A perspective from Latin America

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Laura Marie Edinger-Schons
University: University of Mannheim
Scholarship: tba
Cohort: 7th Cohort, since 2020
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• Short Abstract

  The path towards development for developing countries and strategic foreign policy will be transformed by artificial intelligence (AI). Most research on AI is centred around the race between China and the United States, but the countries who cannot compete will face the utmost negative shocks on the socio-economic field through job displacement, automation of unconscious bias, data colonization and threat to sovereignty. Therefore, this paper places vulnerable populations and Latin America’s concerns at the centre of research in the academic literature of AI. The latter, in an attempt to contribute to the technological foresight and analysis of social impact on developing countries, engaging new voices and prevent the exacerbation of inequality between and within countries from a historical and intersectional perspective.

• Research Interests

  • Gender Equality
  • Poverty and Social Inequality
  • Intersectional and Decolonizing Theories
  • Artificial Intelligence and Fourth Industrial Revolution Technologies

• Education

  • 2018, Master of Science in Public Policy, University of Bristol, England
  • 2016, Bachelor of Law, Universidad Iberoamericana, Dominican Republic

• Professional and Academic Career

  • 2020, Human Rights Advisor on Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion, GENIA Latina, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
  • 2019, Independent Gender Consultant, Woman Up, Mate Consultancy, Bristol, England.
  • 2018, Director of Gender and Inclusion, Ministry of Women, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
  • 2018, President, Volunteering in Global Shapers Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
  • 2016, Research and Innovation Director, United Nations Programme for Development and the Office of the Vice-President of the Dominican Republic joint program
  • 2016, Research Intern, Run for America Political Consultancy, New York, United States.
  • 2013, Research Fellow, Vice-president of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

• Publications

  • 2020, Cumbre Internacional de Jóvenes Líderes, “Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion for Latin America”, Puerto Rico.
  • 2020, UNIDAS Dialogue on COVID-19 from a Gender Perspective, “COVID-19 and Digitalization: Evaluating Impact through an Intersectional Lens”, German Foreign Ministry, Germany.
  • 2019, 15^th RSEP International Conference on Economic, Finance and Social Sciences, “How an understanding of gender inequalities informs policies to tackle global poverty?”, University of Washington in Rome, Italy.

• Conference Contributions: Talks

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• Conference Contributions: Posters

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• Memberships

  • Member, Global Shapers Community, World Economic Forum (WEF).
  • Member, “UNIDAS” Initiative by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Cooperation with Latin America.
  • Founder, International Law Students Association Chapter Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE), Dominican Republic.
  • Member, United Nations Association in Dominican Republic (UNA-DR).
  • Director of International Relations, Faculty of Law Alumni Association, Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE).
  • Member, ATLAS Women Lawyers in Human Rights Berlin