About me
Elaine Ford promotes Digital Democracy in Peru and Latin-America.
Master’s in International Studies from the University of Chile. Postgraduate in International Law and Human Rights from the University of Nottingham, England. Journalist from the Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC).
She is currently Visiting Policy Fellow 2024 at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford in England, and has a specialization in Innovation in Government at Harvard Kennedy School, United States.
She is the director and founder of Democracia Digital based in Lima, Peru. Former President of Internet Society (ISOC) Peru for two consecutive periods (2016-2021). Member of the Steering Committee of ISOC Chapters Advisory Council in 2019, 2020, 2023 and 2024.
She obtained the Decoration of Ambassador of UAE in Peru (2022), "Order of Values Peru Bicentennial" Decoration (Peru, 2021), the "International Leader and Entrepreneur Woman Award” (ODM Peru, 2019), the "2018 Ibero-American Woman Leader Award" (Peru, 2018), and the "Young Leader Award” from the International Young Leaders Foundation (Argentina, 2010).
She is the author of the books: “The challenge of digital democracy. Towards an interconnected citizenship” (2019), “Internet and the pandemic” (2020) and “Digital technologies and elections in Peru” (2021). Also, she is an international lecturer and TEDx speaker.
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