2025-11-19 –, Main Room
Openness has long been a core value of the digital age — a promise that technology and transparency could bring us closer to equity and participation. Yet, as artificial intelligence, digital public infrastructures, and massive data systems reshape our world, that promise is no longer merely unfulfilled but also challenged. In this keynote presentation, Fernanda Campagnucci — a practitioner and researcher of digital governance, Executive Director of InternetLab, former Executive Director of Open Knowledge Brazil, and former Open Data Lead for the City of São Paulo — reflects on her journey through the frontlines of open government. From collaborative open data projects in São Paulo to recent research on AI and digital public infrastructures, she explores how the very meaning of openness is being disputed — and why openness must remain central to democratic governance of data and technology in the age of AI.
Openness has long been a core value of the digital age — a promise that technology and transparency could bring us closer to equity and participation. Yet, as artificial intelligence, digital public infrastructures, and massive data systems reshape our world, that promise is no longer merely unfulfilled but also challenged. In this keynote presentation, Fernanda Campagnucci — a practitioner and researcher of digital governance, Executive Director of InternetLab, former Executive Director of Open Knowledge Brazil, and former Open Data Lead for the City of São Paulo — reflects on her journey through the frontlines of open government. From collaborative open data projects in São Paulo to recent research on AI and digital public infrastructures, she explores how the very meaning of openness is being disputed — and why openness must remain central to democratic governance of data and technology in the age of AI.
Fernanda Campagnucci is the Executive Director of InternetLab. Previously, she served as the Executive Director of Open Knowledge Brazil (2019–2024) and worked as a public manager at the São Paulo City Hall (2013–2019), leading award-winning initiatives in transparency, data governance, and digital government.
She holds a degree in Journalism and a master’s degree in Education from the University of São Paulo (USP), and a PhD in Public Administration and Government from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (EAESP-FGV). She also specialized in Transparency and Accountability at the University of Chile (2014) and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Münster (Germany, 2024), focusing on smart cities and digital political participation.
Fernanda is a member of the Council for Sustainable Economic and Social Development of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil, and of the Advisory Council for Digital Transformation of the Federal Government. Throughout her career, she has engaged in global networks, serving as an Open Government Fellow at the Organization of American States (2015), an Open Data Leader at the Open Data Institute (2016), and a Government Fellow at the United Nations University’s Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) (2018).