Gabriela Jiménez: Venezuela is betting on a science with a fundamentally social meaning

Published at: 13/04/2026 08:33 PM

This Monday, April 13, the Minister of Popular Power for Science and Technology, Gabriela Jiménez, led an in-depth debate on ethics in digitalization, during her participation in the Symposium “Technologies of the Present and Future”.

From the José Félix Ribas Hall of the Teresa Carreño Theater, he specified that “digital transformation is today a geopolitical actor in the world, just like artificial intelligence (AI),” the Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology said on its website.

In the framework of the ethical debate on AI, Jiménez clarified that nations should talk about “social computing to ensure that communities, farmers, young people and women are included beyond algorithms.”

He also warned about structural inequalities in access to technological infrastructure, recalling that only 4% of the world's data centers are located in Latin America.

He asserted that this scenario generates significant gaps in access and sovereignty in data, the latter of which are vital for the construction of health, education, telecommunications and scientific platforms based on open science.”

The minister also explained that the democratization of knowledge today faces a dispute between artificial intelligence and quantum computing, where factors such as access to rare earths and to more energy efficient mechanisms” are key to the sustainability of platforms.

Jiménez emphasized that digital infrastructure and ecosystems must be defined based on the identity and idiosyncrasy of Latin America. In this regard, he reiterated the commitment of the Venezuelan State to a humanistic scientific model:

“Venezuela pays tribute to a science, to a space of social construction, fundamentally social, that pays tribute to the rationality of life, to the well-being of Venezuelans, making knowledge also a fundamental actor of our culture,” he said.

Mazo News Team