Iago Bojczuk is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He is broadly interested in the geography of media and communication, as well as the interplay between global development, digitalization, and multilateralism. More specifically, his work lies at the intersection of digital infrastructures and sustainability, science and technology diplomacy, and the governance of large-scale socio-technical systems.
His doctoral research delineates what he conceptualizes as ‘Southern Clouds,’ with a particular focus on Brazil. Through a series of case studies, he examines the political economy of the data center industry, its interconnections to other critical infrastructure sectors, the regulatory and governmental frameworks that shape it, and community perceptions of these infrastructures as they continue to proliferate in new geographies. Through an interdisciplinary lens, this project investigates the local, national, and regional vectors of territorialization, as well as the distinct dynamics that these new nodes engender regarding sustainability and resilience as they establish new paradigms for cloud computing and signal trafficking in the Global South.
Iago holds a Master of Science in Comparative Media Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he graduated in 2020 as a Lemann Fellow. Prior to that, he earned a Bachelor of Arts (Phi Beta Kappa) in Media Studies from the University of Oregon in 2018. He recently served as an editorial assistant for the Journal of Environmental Media and currently contributes as a Global Policy Consultant with Sustainable Subsea Networks, an academic-industry research partnership funded by the Internet Society Foundation.
Outside of academia, he recently worked as a consultant with the Chief Economist Office of the World Bank’s Infrastructure Vice-Presidency. Before starting his PhD, he held internship positions with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)—the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies—and with Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises.
