Fernando Carrión Mena is a Research Professor at the Interuniversity Alliance URBS.TIC. His focus of study are the topics of: housing, urbanization process, city, historical centers, cultural heritage, violence, security and drug trafficking, borders, decentralization and sociology of soccer, among others. He created 8 thematic magazines (political science, security, city, historical centers, borders), wrote more than 1000 journalistic articles and 306 academic articles, published 74 books (editor of 52 and author of 22) and edited 12 book collections (97 volumes). He produced 4 film documentaries. He has worked as a consultant for multilateral organizations and as a university professor. For his career he received 9 awards, 6 decorations and 5 distinctions of honored citizen.
Emilia Silva Arias is a Researcher of the Interuniversity Alliance URBS.TIC. Clinical Psychologist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Master in Sociology from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Flacso-Ecuador and has a diploma in Theories and Policies of the Contemporary City from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM-X). Her main lines of research revolve around: cities, digital economies, labor platforming, globalization and gender.