TECLA: A brief history of how Latin Americans have assessed new technologies

Submitted on 06/09/2020

The last years have seen a growing influence of corporations and private interests in new technologies. New technologies are being introduced into society without a real assessment of what they are, how they work, who is funding them and what their impacts may be. These two principal concerns inspired the coming together of several different groups in Latin American to form TECLA in 2016.