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Kemly Camacho is co-founder and current general coordinator of the Sulá Batsú Cooperative. She is a computer engineer and anthropologist and has a master's degree in knowledge society and another in evaluation of development programmes and projects. For the last 20 years she has combined her training to work on the issues she is most passionate about, such as the social impact of digital technologies, the approach of technological tools to populations with greater vulnerabilities and the development of local spaces with fewer opportunities through the integration of technology. During all these years, she has specialised in the social impact of information and communications technologies in society and has belonged to different global research teams working on this topic at a number of universities and international organisatons.

In recent years she has been dedicated to the promotion and strengthening of women's participation in the digital sectors and the promotion of diversity in this economic sector. She leads the TIC-as Programme that works in the creation of rural technology hubs with female leadership at the Central American level and promotes women's technology-based entrepreneurship and the creation of technology from the vision of women. 

Kemly is a researcher and professor at the University of Costa Rica and the Technological Institute of Costa Rica. She is also currently vice president of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Information and Communication Technologies of Costa Rica; is an associate member of the Telecommunications Commission of Central America; was part of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Cooperative Development; is a member of the Advisory Council of MSMEs of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Commerce of Costa Rica; represents civil society in the National Open Data Commission; is a member of the Latin American Network for Research on Appropriation of Digital Technologies and the CLACSO Group on the same subject, and forms part of the High-Level Commission on the Gender, Science and Technology Policy of Costa Rica.