Jamila Venturini

Jamila Venturini is the Brazilian journalist-and-researcher Co-Executive Director of Derechos Digitales, the Santiago-headquartered Latin American digital-rights non-profit (alongside J. Carlos Lara), and the corpus's most-cited Latin American public voice on data colonialism, automated decision-making in Latin American state services, AI-and-inclusion, and feminist principles for AI development (see Person entry). She is tracked here as a Voice because her sustained public output — co-authorship of the four-country regional comparative report Decisiones automatizadas en la función pública en América Latina, coordination since 2021 of Derechos Digitales' AI-and-inclusion programme line with the A+ Alliance on mapping feminist principles for AI development across the region, recurring named-byline contributions to the Internet Policy Review, and the 2025 Association for Progressive Communications 20th-anniversary public-output framing that joins her and Lara as the joint stewards of the organisation's regional AI-and-data-colonialism agenda — has carried into Latin American civil-society, press, and policy discourse the working frame that AI deployment in Global South state services is a regional public-interest question requiring grounded empirical research and a Latin-American-led civil-society interlocutor rather than the reproduction of US or European framings into Spanish and Portuguese.

She is the corpus's first Latin American Voice. Where worker voices like Daniel Motaung carry the case for the Global South content-moderation pipelines through the courts, US algorithmic-accountability voices like Joy Buolamwini carry the case for facial-recognition harms through audit science and federal hearings, deliberative voices like Reema Patel carry the case for participatory governance through UK public bodies, and Continental European voices like Matthias Spielkamp carry the case for algorithmic accountability through recurring multi-country ADM-mapping reports and the EU AI Act trilogue, Venturini's voice carries the case that the Latin American AI-and-human-rights project requires both a sustained empirical inventory of which automated decision-making systems are actually being deployed across the region's social-protection, justice, employment, and public-health administration and a Latin-American-epistemic-position regional civil-society interlocutor able to route the findings into the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, UNESCO, and UN human-rights mechanisms. She fills the Latin America Voice slot entirely (the geographic counterweight to the corpus's existing US, UK, African, and Continental European Voices), the corpus's first Brazilian and first Portuguese-and-Spanish-language voice, and the Global-South-perspective-on-AI-governance Voice sub-type that joins Daniel Motaung (worker voice) on the Global South pole — adding the Global South researcher / policy voice complementary to Motaung's worker-plaintiff voice on the corpus's deepest Global South cluster.

Signature framings

Three framings in Venturini's and her co-stewarded organisation's public output have travelled beyond Derechos Digitales' own materials into the working language of the Latin American digital-rights field.

• Latin America "at the forefront of the assessment of impacts caused by artificial intelligence and data colonialism." The framing that anchors the joint Lara/Venturini public-output posture is delivered in the 2025 Association for Progressive Communications 20th-anniversary feature — a setting in which Venturini and Lara are framed as the joint stewards of Derechos Digitales' regional AI-and-data-colonialism agenda. The framing refuses the assumption that AI-and-human-rights critique flows from the Global North to the Global South and installs instead the regional civil-society reading that Latin American empirical research and regional advocacy is itself a leading contribution to global AI governance — the working basis for the comparative regional research, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights advocacy, and UNESCO Civil Society Organizations and Academic Network on AI Ethics and Policy participation Venturini coordinates from the organisation's regional leadership position.
• Automated decision-making in Latin American state services as the regional empirical anchor. Venturini's most load-bearing single public-output artefact is the co-authored four-country regional comparative report Decisiones automatizadas en la función pública en América Latina — the foundational Latin American civil-society mapping of ADM deployment in social interventions (Chile), justice administration (Colombia), job allocation (Brazil), and public-health management (Uruguay). The framing the report installs is that automated decision-making in Latin American public services is being deployed faster than regulatory and rights-protection capacity, and that grounded empirical research is the precondition for democratic deliberation about whether and how to use these systems — the regional counterpart to AlgorithmWatch's Automating Society mapping series under Matthias Spielkamp's editorial direction on the Continental European side, and the framing under which Venturini coordinates Derechos Digitales' AI-and-inclusion programme line.
• Feminist principles for AI development as the Latin American AI-civil-society identity layer. The third framing Venturini carries is the feminist-AI principles work developed in collaboration with the A+ Alliance on mapping feminist principles for AI development across Latin America alongside María Paz Canales. The work refuses the technical-correction or industry-ethics framings common in the US and European AI-governance fields and installs instead a feminist, decolonial, Latin-American-led identity for the regional AI-civil-society project — the working basis for Derechos Digitales' continued feminist-AI workshops, guides, and toolkits, the 2024 Latin America in a Glimpse edition on community-based feminist AI, and the regional contribution to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights' 192nd-session hearing on artificial intelligence and human rights in April 2025.

Public output and venues

Venturini's public-facing work runs across four overlapping channels.

• Co-stewardship of Derechos Digitales' regional AI programme. The single most load-bearing channel of her voice is her Co-Executive Director role at Derechos Digitales since 1 September 2021, on which Venturini coordinates the organisation's AI-and-inclusion programme line — analyses of how state-deployed AI and "data colonialism" shape Latin American publics, and address the under-representation of Global South voices in AI governance debates. The four-country comparative report Decisiones automatizadas en la función pública en América Latina is the flagship single artefact of the programme line and is the anchor for Venturini's named co-authored public-output record on Latin American ADM mapping.
• Academic-press and named-byline output. Venturini's named-byline output extends through her Internet Policy Review contributor page — the European academic open-access venue at the intersection of digital policy and civil-society research — and through her prior research role coordinating the "Privacy in the Digital Age" project at the Center for Technology and Society at the Fundação Getulio Vargas law school (CTS-FGV) in Rio de Janeiro. The academic-press record is the foundation on which Derechos Digitales' regional AI-and-inclusion-programme outputs land into Latin American and international academic-policy fora alongside the organisation's own published reports.
• Brazilian Internet Steering Committee expert consultancy. Venturini has served since 2014 as an expert consultant to the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) on its annual ICT and Education research — the most load-bearing national-policy-record channel of her named work, predating her Derechos Digitales senior-leadership role and continuing alongside it. The eleven-year continuity is the corpus's strongest single record of a Brazilian named civil-society voice in the country's principal multistakeholder internet-and-technology-policy body, and is part of why her voice carries weight across both regional and national Latin American policy fora.
• Regional and international civil-society convening venues. Beyond the organisation's own venues, Venturini's voice carries through Derechos Digitales' role as a founding member of the Al Sur Latin American and Caribbean consortium, through the organisation's UNESCO Civil Society Organizations and Academic Network on AI Ethics and Policy participation, the Latin American Network of Surveillance, Technology and Society Studies (LAVITS), the Inter-American Dialogue's regional expert network, and the regional A+ Alliance's feminist-AI principles-and-toolkits programme. The 2016 Google Policy Fellow placement with Access Now is the on-record beginning of the international-civil-society venue record on which her current Latin American AI-civil-society voice is built.

Organisational vehicle

Venturini's public output runs primarily through Derechos Digitales — the Santiago-headquartered regional Latin American digital-rights non-profit where she has been Co-Executive Director since 1 September 2021 alongside J. Carlos Lara, having joined the organisation's managerial staff in the preceding years. Pre-Derechos Digitales, her named-byline academic-press and research record was carried through the Center for Technology and Society at the Fundação Getulio Vargas (CTS-FGV) law school in Rio de Janeiro (researcher coordinating the "Privacy in the Digital Age" project), Access Now (2016 Google Policy Fellow), and the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) (expert consultant on annual ICT and Education research since 2014). Her continuing academic record is anchored on her doctoral candidacy in Social Sciences at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), and her training combines a journalism degree from the University of São Paulo and a Master's in Social Sciences from FLACSO Argentina with a focus on Education.

Why this is a Voice entry

A Voice entry is created here, rather than additional structure on the Person entry, because Venturini's public-facing output is itself the load-bearing object the corpus needs to track: the regional working framing of automated decision-making in Latin American state services, data colonialism as the Latin American AI-and-human-rights interpretive layer, and feminist principles for AI development as the regional AI-civil-society identity — the empirical four-country regional ADM comparative report, the A+ Alliance feminist-AI principles collaboration, the Internet Policy Review academic-press record, and the 2025 APC 20th-anniversary public-output framing — is the vocabulary she has co-installed into Latin American civil-society and regional human-rights discourse since her September 2021 elevation to Derechos Digitales' co-executive directorship and her preceding decade of named civil-society research and convening work. The corpus's Latin American Voice slot — the geographic counterweight to its US (voice-joy-buolamwini, voice-karla-ortiz, voice-sneha-revanur, voice-mary-wareham), UK (voice-reema-patel), African (voice-daniel-motaung), and Continental European (voice-matthias-spielkamp) Voice anchors — carried no Voice before this entry; this entry gives that geography its first first-person voice and the corpus its first Brazilian, first Portuguese-and-Spanish-language, and first Global South researcher / policy voice. Affiliation, board structure, training, and biographical detail are recorded on the linked Person entry per the corpus's Person/Voice split.