From Data Justa, we are pleased to highlight the successful defense of the master’s thesis of Jorge Maldonado Soto, a Computer Science Engineer specializing in digital humanities and a graduate thesis researcher on the team. He is the first Millennium Nucleus thesis student to obtain his degree, marking an important milestone for the project’s training area.
Six years after the social uprising, this column published in El Mostrador reflects on the recent report by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and on the role of data in processes of truth, justice, and reparation in response to institutional violence.
As part of the interview series conducted by the Human Rights Chair of the Department of History at Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Oriana Bernasconi, Director of the Data Justa Millennium Nucleus and faculty member at the Institute for Applied Ethics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, reflected on the processes of documenting and recording human rights violations in Chile.
The DATA JUSTA Millennium Nucleus and the University of Atacama (UDA) formalized a collaboration agreement that will help expand research, training, and interinstitutional work around justice, memory, and reparation.
Three UC students participated in the Undergraduate Research Program (IPRE) and developed projects related to the case studies of the Data Justa Millennium Nucleus, receiving feedback from the research team.
On July 31, the results of the 2025 ANID Exploration Competition were announced, with the project “Understanding the (Un)successful Implementation of Innovative Justice Mechanisms in the Chilean Criminal Justice System” being awarded funding. The project is led by Daniela Bolívar, faculty member at the School of Social Work of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Principal Investigator at the Data Justa Millennium Nucleus. The research will run for four years and will involve an interdisciplinary team working in close collaboration with public institutions.
On Thursday, July 10, Oriana Bernasconi, Director of the Data Justa Millennium Nucleus, was interviewed on the radio program Libres e Iguales, produced by the Los Ríos office of the National Human Rights Institute and Radio UACh. During the conversation, hosted by Patricia Cocq and Miriam Ramírez, Bernasconi discussed some of the main challenges faced by the Chilean State in producing, organizing, and using information on victims of serious human rights violations.
On Monday, June 23, the First Biannual Territorial Workshop of the Data Justa Millennium Nucleus was held, titled “International Human Rights Standards: Application and Challenges in Three Contemporary Cases.” The event took place in the Plenary Room of the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences at Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh), on the Isla Teja campus in Valdivia, and was livestreamed through the Derecho UACh YouTube channel.
As part of two recent academic activities, Oriana Bernasconi and Andrés Tello, researchers at the Data Justa Millennium Nucleus, shared reflections on the ethical challenges that arise from the use of data in contexts of human rights violations. Their presentations opened up key questions about the production, circulation, and state management of data, as well as the social, political, and human effects of their use.
On Monday, June 23, Universidad Austral de Chile will host the first of six Territorial Workshops organized by the Data Justa Millennium Nucleus. The event, open to the public and held in a hybrid format, will bring together human rights specialists to discuss contemporary challenges in the use of international standards in response to serious human rights violations.