New research analyzing the landscape in Latin America
In January, after nine months of collaborative work, we presented the results of the Fairwork 2025 research cycle, developed by eight Latin American countries that are part of the Fairwork research-action network, which evaluates working conditions on digital labor platforms such as Uber, Bolt, Cabify, PedidosYa, among many others.
This launch consolidated the application of the Fairwork methodology in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, and Uruguay. In this new research cycle, 52 platforms in these countries were evaluated, based on a review of open sources and 290 interviews with workers from these platforms, complemented by dialogues with company representatives to triangulate the information and define the assigned scores.
The presentation, coordinated by TEDIC, took place on January 30 via Zoom, where representatives from the different countries shared their research findings. The results of this simultaneous work show very low scores across the vast majority of platforms in the different sectors analyzed (delivery, transportation, and domestic work), highlighting a lack of minimum fair work standards in the platform economy across the region.
The reports also show that there is a minority of platforms that have successfully committed to improving working conditions.
Platform economy situation in Paraguay
The Fairwork 2025 research, Paraguayan chapter, focuses on six prominent platforms: Bolt, Uber, and Muv, which provide passenger transport services, and PedidosYa and Monchis, which are dedicated to delivery services. The report also evaluates the domestic platform Helpers.
Likewise, continuing our advocacy in this area, on April 16 we participated in the public hearing for the analysis of the bill “Regulating the activity and safety of service providers and users of digital mobility and delivery platforms,” convened by the Commission on Science, Technology, Innovation and the Future.
Research, exchanges, and dissemination of materials to mitigate disinformation
“Is the State watching us?”: Launch of the research Surveillance and disinformation in Paraguay
Within the framework of the 37th anniversary of the fall of the dictatorship in Paraguay, we presented the research Surveillance and disinformation in Paraguay, authored by Marco Castillo, aiming to connect the recent past with the present through the surveillance policies deployed by the Paraguayan State.
In this research, the author analyzes the main contemporary characteristics of this phenomenon based on interviews with key actors. These exchanges show that disinformation is articulated with the normalization of social surveillance; limited knowledge about state and private surveillance capacities; limited transparency in access to public information; and the existence of increasingly common active disinformation strategies.
Based on this material, we appeared in several national media outlets to disseminate the work and problematize the role of disinformation when used by the State and private companies. Marco Castillo gave several interviews in national media to discuss the topic.
Elections and violence: meeting with women in politics
In March, we held a lunch with women councilors from the Central department to discuss digital violence and disinformation—phenomena that disproportionately impact women’s political participation.
The meeting allowed for sharing concrete experiences: coordinated attack campaigns, the circulation of false information, and forms of harassment aimed at discouraging the presence of women and dissidents in politics. It was a space of trust to share tools, prevention strategies, and collective response mechanisms.
In an election year, these conversations become especially necessary. Talking about disinformation is not only about what circulates on the Internet—it is about understanding how it affects the lives of women with a public voice. That is why it is necessary to defend and promote women’s right to participate in political and public life without fear, without silencing, and without violence.
Information sovereignty: Wikimedia and journalists meeting
From TEDIC, together with the Wikimedia Foundation, we organized a dialogue space aimed at journalists and communicators, with the participation of Amalia Toledo, public policy specialist for Latin America and the Caribbean.
At the meeting, which brought together more than 20 journalists from traditional and independent media, we collectively reflected on the current challenges facing the information ecosystem in a context marked by the expansion of generative artificial intelligence and the increasing restriction of civic space.
The exchange focused on how AI models are transforming the production, circulation, and sustainability of information, as well as the risks posed by data and knowledge extractivism for independent journalism and open knowledge projects.
Journalists Leonardo Gómez Berniga and Belén Galeano also presented preliminary results of the research they are conducting, under TEDIC’s coordination, on how media outlets can also act as agents of disinformation and undermine the integrity of journalism itself.
To close the session, the dialogue turned toward identifying collaborative strategies to strengthen information integrity and knowledge sovereignty in Paraguay and the region.
Discussion: “Artificial Intelligence and its uses in academia”
On Wednesday, April 29, the Working Group on Education Studies of FACSO-UNA held the discussion “Artificial Intelligence and its uses in academia” at the Prof. Stella García Auditorium, where our Executive Director, Maricarmen Sequera, was invited as a panelist.
The space fostered critical analysis and reflection on the challenges, opportunities, and risks of incorporating artificial intelligence into academic settings, highlighting the role and responsibility of teachers and students in building university policies that guide its use.
Towards the exhibition Where are the women?
Feminist minga
As a first action within the framework of March 8 (8M), TEDIC promoted a feminist minga, a space for gathering, conversation, and collective reflection on the representation of women and diversities in decision-making spaces, public participation, and cultural production.
The activity, held in our office at the end of February, brought together feminists and key figures from women’s networks in Paraguay, with extensive experience in activism and gender equality work across different fields.
During the meeting, we worked with a selection of photographs collected over the years for the project All Male Panel. Through collective analysis of the images, we opened conversations about power, representation, and the absences that persist in spaces where the country’s public, cultural, and technological agenda is defined.
This collective curatorial exercise allowed us to reinterpret the images from a feminist and territorially grounded perspective. The selected photographs were later used as key materials for our exhibition Where are the women?
Strategic alliances
As part of our All Male Panel project, and in preparation for the exhibition Where are the women?, we held meetings and exchanges with the Senate’s Gender Equity Commission, chaired by Senator Lilian Samaniego.
The exhibition not only aims to expose sexism in spaces of power, but also to honor and highlight the work of women leaders who have been advancing women’s and diversity rights.
In one of the meetings, we defined key technical and organizational aspects for setting up the exhibition, including curatorial decisions, spatial conceptualization, and logistical requirements. This resulted in an important alliance to bring our artistic and political project to one of the country’s most relevant decision-making spaces: the National Congress.
Exhibition at Congress
After nearly a year of work, in alliance with the Senate’s Gender Equity Commission, on April 22 we inaugurated at the National Congress the exhibition Where are the women?, which showcases, through artworks, experiences, and photographs, sexism in spaces of power and decision-making, based on the All Male Panel archive, which compiles more than 1,500 records since 2017 of panels, seminars, and public events composed exclusively of men as experts.
The exhibition features three works in different formats, developed by Paz Moreno Re, Betania Ruttia, and Riccardo Castellani, through a process of research, exchange, conceptualization, and creation lasting more than six months, guided by artist Claudia Casarino and curated by Jazmín Ruiz Díaz.
The exhibition also includes a large collage created by artist Karen Vera, with art direction by Romina Aquino González, composed of a selection of photographs from the archive curated during the feminist minga.
As another way to respond to these all-male panels, TEDIC invited women leaders from politics, civil society, academia, and science to receive recognition for their contributions to more just and equal societies, as well as for their trajectories in predominantly male environments.
Among those honored were: Blanca Ovelar, Esperanza Martínez, Johanna Ortega, Lilian Samaniego, Celeste Amarilla, Desirée Masi, Milda Rivarola, Tina Alvarenga, and Antonieta Rojas.
The honorees signed a manifesto in favor of equality and against all-male panels, committing not to legitimize such spaces and to actively promote the inclusion of women and diverse voices in political, academic, and social decision-making spaces. They also call on the government to debate and pass legislative projects to prevent and eradicate gender-based political violence and cyber harassment.
Dialogues for political action
From April 22 to 25, Asunción hosted the first mission of the Political Innovation Network, composed of 15 people from across Latin America seeking exchanges and collaborations to build more just democracies.
As part of this visit, on April 23 at our office, we co-organized with Alma Cívica and with support from Aula Política the event Dialogues for political action, where members of the Network, candidates for city council, civil society representatives, and organized youth shared their experiences and perspectives on what it means to build political innovation in their territories today.
Discussions addressed current challenges facing Latin American democracies, the rise of new right-wing movements and authoritarianism, and possibilities for political participation from new generations and emerging experiences. Through regional exchange and collective work, the event aimed to strengthen networks, share learning, and develop concrete tools for political action.
Recognition of the “My data, my rights” campaign
Our advocacy and communication campaign “My data, my rights” was selected and awarded an honorable mention in the 6th edition of the Ibero-American Prize for Human Rights Education “Óscar Arnulfo Romero,” organized by the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) in Paraguay.
On April 23, we participated in the award ceremony alongside other recognized projects. It was a valuable space for exchange and recognition of the work each initiative carries out to promote human rights through education.
