Martin Hilbert
Martin Hilbert is a social scientist who is a professor at the University of California where he chairs the campus-wide emphasis on Computational Social Science. He studies societal digitalization. His work is recognized in academia for the first study that assessed how much information there is in the world; in public policy for having designed the first digital action plan with the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations ; and in the popular media for having alerted about the intervention of Cambridge Analytica a year before the scandal broke.
Career and research
Hilbert served as Economic Affairs Officer of the United Nations Secretariat for 15 years, where he created the Information Society Program for Latin America and the Caribbean He conceptualized the design of the eLAC Action Plans, which has led to six consecutive generations of digital development agendas for Latin America and the Caribbean.Hilbert studies the conditions and effects of digitalization and algorithmification on human processes and societal dynamics. His research has found audiences in communication science, information science, international development, evolution and ecology, technological forecasting, complexity science, network science, economics, physics, psychology, women's studies and multidisciplinary science.