KiadoÌýCruz
Servicios Universitarios y Redes de Conocimientos de Oaxaca (). Zapotec communicator, SURCO co-founder, DCSL/CCSRE Technology & Racial Equity Practitioner Fellow, Stanford PACSÌý (2024-25).
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Melquiades (Kiado) Cruz is a prominent Zapotec communicator, activist, and researcher from the community of Yagavila in the Rincón de la Sierra Norte of Oaxaca.Ìý He is a co-founder of SURCO, Servicios Universitarios y Redes de Conocimientos en Oaxaca, A.C. where he has worked to support community media projects, access to information, open source technologies, and community education.Ìý He is currently contributing to the INDIGITAL initiative, a collaborative project focused on ensuring access to information in indigenous languages and data.Ìý He was a 2023 participant in the LACNIC (Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry) LÃderes Program on Internet Governance, and will be a Digital Civil Society Lab Technology & Racial Equity Practitioner Fellow with the Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University during the 2024-25 academic year.Ìý
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