SocialTech · CivicTech · GovTech. Over 10 years building digital products for public, social and environmental problems, from Cochabamba, Bolivia — at the intersection of software engineering, data science, artificial intelligence and applied social research.
- 🚀 Head of Lab TecnoSocial since 2018 · 40+ digital projects
- 🎓 MSc in Software Engineering (UNIR) · Computational Social Science (UC Davis) · teaching at UMSS and UCB since 2016
- 🤝 Open to collaboration and new opportunities · remote or hybrid
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Published, reviewed and kept up to date. Anyone can install it today.
| Project | Where | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| censosbo | R package for the microdata of Bolivia's five population censuses (1976–2024). Parquet fetched on demand, dplyr through Arrow, SQL through DuckDB. Docs |
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| Q-CensosBo |  |
The same census data inside QGIS: styled choropleths by department, municipality, urban block or rural community — queried remotely, nothing downloaded. QGIS 3.28 → 4.x |
| zotero-agent |  |
Full local read-write control of a Zotero library: CLI + MCP server + bridge plugin. No cloud, no API key. Docs |
| Simple Tasks |  |
Obsidian plugin for task management on the plain markdown checkboxes already in your notes: daily agenda, completion heatmap, hover actions, outline hierarchy and tag grouping. No task database, no query language |
| Periodic Calendar | |
Obsidian plugin: a calendar for periodic notes — daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semester and yearly — each day shaded by how much it holds, and extensible by other plugins through a documented API |
- Species identification in Arbu — Recognizes a tree species from a photo, inside the urban tree app
- Government programs chatbot — Ask and compare electoral programs in natural language
- MentorBot — Vocational guidance and educational opportunities for students
- Consejo de Llamita in Thani — Reads a user's emotional log and turns it into advice for the day or for the last three days, inside the mental health app
- Cocha Antigua — Historical photographs of Cochabamba restored and colorized with AI, on a map
- SimiGPT — Prototype of a language model for the strengthening of Bolivian Quechua (in progress)
- Temis Bot — Legal chatbot on Bolivian legislation (coming soon)
- Ciudatos Lab — Open data, visualization and modeling for urban issues in Bolivia
- Unsatisfied Basic Needs dashboard — Poverty by department, province, municipality and indigenous territory, from the 2012 and 2024 censuses, down to urban block and rural community
- STEM+ Olympics Data Platform — Data platform for Bolivia's STEM+ Olympics
- SITDIS — Territorial information system for integral and sustainable development (with CIPCA)
- Digital studies in Bolivia — Bibliographic explorer of digital social studies
- Heavy metals in the Pilcomayo basin — Dashboard
- 20 years of fires in the Bolivian Amazon — Dashboard
- El Alto school infrastructure — Dashboard
- BiciDatos — Citizen monitoring of cycling mobility data in Bolivia
- Arbu — Urban tree monitoring, with AI species identification
- Mi Huella — Personal carbon footprint from your energy, diet and transport
- Simi — Learning Quechua interactively
- Thani — Mental health care and emotional self-management
- Yupay — Financial education and personal finance, with family basket costs modeled on INE data
- PAP App — Cervical cancer screening monitoring
- Mujeres Constructoras — Connecting employers and women builders
- Languages of Bolivia — Languages spoken, from the 2024 census
- Mining environmental liabilities — Map for a CONNECTAS investigation
- Sounds of Cochabamba — Sound map of the city
- Indigenous place names — Toponymy of Cochabamba
- Internet speed in Bolivia — Measured connection speed across the country
- The Braess paradox — Do more roads mean better traffic?
- Coronavirus diffusion — Agent-based simulation
- ParticipaBOt — Citizen participation experiment: 70,000 votes from 3,005 people, clustered to find minimal agreements amid polarization
- The vocabulary of power — Content analysis of the 2020 government programs
- Color in Bolivian painting — A digital exploration of color through art history
- SICOES data recovery — Tool that liberates Bolivia's open contracting data
- Lab TecnoSocial Academy — Courses on data, digital research and development
- University teaching since 2016: UMSS and UCB, on digital technologies, AI, network analysis and digital sociology
→ Full portfolio, including earlier work: alex-roc.github.io
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