About the speakers
Constanza Gómez Mont is a strategist and social entrepreneur. She focuses on harnessing the potential of emerging technologies and models of collective intelligence to amplify social and environmental impact. For the last 17 years she has led pioneering initiatives through C Minds, an action tank in Latin America that she founded. C Minds develops frameworks and policies for inclusive, ethical, and human rights-centered technologies, implements tech for good initiatives, and strengthens female leadership in the tech and policy fields. She is also the founder of the award-winning global initiative AI for Climate and founder and Director of NaturaTech LAC, a new regional initiative cofounded with IDB Lab that harnesses new technologies to accelerate climate and biodiversity conservation action in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Modestha Mensah is originally from Ghana. She is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Ghana, and the title of her thesis is “A Critical Study of Personhood in Akan Thought: A Feminist Perspective”. She obtained both her B.A. (English and Philosophy) and M.Phil. (Philosophy) degrees at University of Cape Coast, Ghana where she currently works as Assistant Lecturer. Modestha specializes in African Socio-Political Philosophy, Ethics and Critical thinking. Her research interests are in AI ethics, feminist ethics and feminist re-interpretations of African philosophical thought systems. She is also a research affiliate at the Bonn Sustainable AI Lab at the Institute for Science and Ethics (IWE), University of Bonn, Germany. She researches the intersections between Sustainable AI and Feminist African Ethics.
Elenita “Neth” Daño is the Asia Director of the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group), which is an international civil society organization that monitors the impacts of new and emerging technologies on marginalized communities, tracks corporate concentration and governance in food and agriculture, and investigates erosion of biodiversity. She is a researcher who has done in-depth analysis and published work on various issues in agriculture, plant genetic resources, new technologies and climate change in developing countries, particularly in Southeast Asia.