CADEBI’s priority project was presented on Radio Anáhuac’s SintonizánDOTe program, highlighting the Interactive Atlas as a tool for systematizing information, strengthening ties, and promoting regional bioethics cooperation.
The Radio Anáhuac program devoted one of its broadcasts to the Observatory of the Ibero-American Bioethics Network (ORIBI), a priority CADEBI project that seeks to transform information into a tool for networking, knowledge, and decision-making in bioethics.
Bioethics today faces challenges that transcend institutions, disciplines, and borders. Scientific and technological advances, artificial intelligence, health inequalities, sustainability, data protection, and the new dilemmas arising from biomedical innovation require not only ethical reflection, but also reliable information, collaboration, and the capacity to build joint responses.
In this context, Radio Anáhuac's SintonizánDOTe program devoted one of its broadcasts to the Observatory of the Ibero-American Bioethics Network (ORIBI), an initiative developed by the Anáhuac Center for Strategic Development in Bioethics (CADEBI) at Universidad Anáhuac México. The program was hosted by Eng. Marco Alberto Lara Bajio and featured, as guests, Eng. Alexis Posadas Delgado and Eng. Marco Antonio Cortez Cortes, systems analysts from the Systems Development Subdirectorate, as well as Dr. Alejandro Sánchez Guerrero, CADEBI coordinator. The diversity of their professional backgrounds made it possible to approach the project at the intersection of technology, information management, and bioethics.
SintonizánDOTe is a program focused on information technologies, innovation, and experiences related to the technological environment. The presentation of ORIBI therefore introduced its audience to a particularly relevant dimension: how digital tools and the systematization of information can contribute to the development of bioethics.
An observatory to connect Ibero-American bioethics
ORIBI is conceived as a meeting space for institutions and professionals that seeks to foster the strategic coordination of existing efforts in Ibero-America, particularly in areas such as bioethics research, education, management, and dissemination. Its purpose is not to replace initiatives already operating in the region, but to facilitate their identification, connection, and collaboration.
This approach responds to a reality identified through the research that gave rise to the project: Ibero-America has substantial academic and institutional activity in bioethics, but much of it develops in a fragmented manner, which can hinder the circulation of information, the identification of good practices, and the development of joint projects.
Accordingly, one of the principles guiding ORIBI is to turn data into "information for action": information that not only describes the state of bioethics in the region, but also facilitates decision-making, the establishment of partnerships, and the strengthening of institutions and academic communities.
The Interactive Atlas: visualizing to connect
One of the Observatory's main instruments is the Ibero-American Interactive Atlas of Bioethics, designed as a regional information system for monitoring, updating, and systematizing data on institutions, academic programs, commissions, publications, and other components of the Ibero-American bioethics ecosystem.
The Atlas is intended to fulfill a dual function. On the one hand, it makes the institutional development of bioethics visible; on the other, it facilitates contact among stakeholders who share interests, needs, and areas of work. In this way, technology ceases to be merely a means of storing information and becomes a tool for fostering cooperation.
This infrastructure is complemented by other ORIBI developments, including a system of indicators for the regional ecosystem, a Normateca designed to organize bioethics-related regulatory frameworks by country and topic, as well as mechanisms for disseminating events and opportunities for collaboration.
From observing reality to building community
The relevance of an observatory of this kind is not limited to gathering data. Its true potential lies in its capacity to create connections through information.
Identifying who is researching specific issues, where training programs are available, which institutions are working on emerging dilemmas, or which regulatory frameworks are currently in force can foster multicenter projects, academic exchanges, comparative research, and new forms of regional cooperation.
In this sense, ORIBI proposes understanding observation as a dynamic process: observe, systematize, analyze, connect, and act. This perspective is especially relevant in the face of bioethical problems whose complexity requires knowledge from medicine, law, philosophy, the social sciences, technology, and environmental sciences.
Technology in the service of bioethical dialogue
ORIBI's participation in SintonizánDOTe also provides an opportunity to show that dialogue between technology and bioethics should not be limited to analyzing the risks arising from innovation; it is also an example of the interdisciplinary work developed at Universidad Anáhuac México.
The conversation between systems and bioethics specialists demonstrates that digital tools can also make a positive contribution when they are used to democratize access to knowledge, systematize information, identify areas of opportunity, strengthen professional networks, and enable geographically distant institutions to find common spaces for collaboration.
The challenge is to move from a collection of isolated efforts toward a genuine Ibero-American community of bioethics knowledge and cooperation.
From this perspective, ORIBI continues to consolidate its position as one of CADEBI's strategic projects for strengthening the institutional development of bioethics and building bridges among those who, across different countries and disciplines, are addressing the major ethical challenges of our time.
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Ing. Marco Antonio Cortez Cortes
Ing. Alexis Posadas Delgado
Analistas de Sistemas de la Subdirección de Desarrollo de Sistemas
More information:
Centro Anáhuac de Desarrollo Estratégico en Bioética (CADEBI)
Dr. Alejandro Sánchez Guerrero
alejandro.sanchezg@anahuac.mx
