Carlos Osorio

Carlos is a graduate student at the Technology and Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and research assistant at the MIT Program on Internet and Telecoms Convergence. He is associate professor on leave from the School of Business at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile, affiliate to  National Center for Digital Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is advisor to the e-Government Group at the World Bank's Development Gateway, Fundación País Digital in Chile, and member of  Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. Previously, he was research associate at the Center for International Development at Harvard University, and Visiting Scientist at MIT Media Lab.

His current research focuses on how software companies can, at the same, allow illegal copying of its own software and enforce its copyrights as part their strategy to create market power and generate profits in the low developed software markets (See feature in Salon.com). He also researches on the role of local governments in stimulating broadband deployment, and the dynamics of technology, management and policy on reaching "public ends by digital means".

He has published and presented different scholarly work on privacy-enhancing technologies (one of them awarded at the Internet Society's INET2002), e-government (one co-authored with Jane Fountain and published by Brookings Institution), and technology and international development. Jointly with Geoffrey Kirkman and Jeffrey Sachs, he co-authored "The Networked Readiness Index: Measuring the Preparedness of Nations for the Networked World", in the Global Information Technology Report.

Carlos graduated as B.Sc. in Engineering and, with Maximum Distinction, with an Engineer's Degree from Universidad de Chile and, as Fulbright Scholar, as Master in Public Policy from John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.