Maricarmen is a lawyer specialised in intellectual property, copyright and related rights, biotechnology, and copyleft. Founder of TEDIC Association (Technology,Education, Development, Research and Communications), is currently President of TEDIC. Leader of the Creative Commons Paraguay Initiative, Democracy 2.0, and TESA 2.0 Digital Citizen Programme, and Founder of Hacks Hackers Asunción.

A free Software consultant, she has published several articles on issues about copyright and civil rights on the Internet. Maricarmen is a member of the Internet Society (ISOC) – Paraguay’s chapter, and also is representative at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) for TEDIC.

Co-founder at Girolabs, OpenDataPy y Data Que Habla. Specialist in Communication and Data Journalist, I research and write articles and stories about open data, data visualization, open government, education, startups, social business, productivity tools and technology in general. Love music, art, and dance.