Hiperderecho

Hiperderecho is a Peruvian non-profit civil association dedicated to investigating, facilitating public understanding of, and promoting respect for rights and freedoms in digital environments. According to its official website, it works so that the Internet remains a space free from state and private intrusions into the exercise of rights. Its work is divided between advocacy actions — such as public policy analysis, legal reform proposals and activism — and educational and training activities on digital rights for Peruvian students, activists and professionals. The organization argues that technology is redefining how basic human rights such as freedom of expression, privacy, access to culture and access to public information are exercised, and that these rights are under threat from public policies that do not understand technology or its potential. Hiperderecho describes itself as existing thanks to the work of a group of young lawyers, communicators, designers and geeks. Its funding base is diversified: its main sources of income come from membership dues and from projects it executes, which are financed by international organizations and private companies. It states that its funders are not part of its board of directors and have no supervisory or decision-making power over its activities. Its board of directors has included Pedro Muñoz del Río (President), Miguel Sánchez Flores (Vice President) and Alejandra Alayza. Its team has included Dilmar Villena Fernández Baca as Executive Director, Elizabeth Mendoza Maldonado as Legal Coordinator (Litigation), Fiorella Ferrari as Activism Officer, Lorena Marks as Communications and Image Officer, and Lucía León Pacheco. The organization's work areas are advocacy, activism and technology. In advocacy, it uses legal tools to defend Peruvians' rights in digital environments and actively seeks public-interest cases involving harm to a right in order to report them to authorities. In activism, it seeks to spread the liberating capacity of technology and to develop or strengthen digital spaces so that all Peruvians can exercise their rights and reinforce their citizenship. In technology, it develops web applications and systems that help Peruvians exercise their rights more easily and monitor what their authorities do. Since 2012, Hiperderecho has conducted research, activism campaigns and participated in various public policy debates on technology in Peru, including reform of the computer crimes law, the public consultation on the liability of Internet intermediaries, opposition to the secrecy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, the law on protection of minors from pornographic content on the Internet, and reform of the Copyright Law. It has collaborated on various campaigns with international organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy International, AccessNow.org and ONG Derechos Digitales. In 2014 it won the National Digital Democracy Award organized by Democracia & Desarrollo Internacional in the Civil Society category for developing a web application to access bills presented by the Peruvian parliament. In 2019 it obtained first place in the National Competition of Good Practices to confront Violence against Women and Members of the Family Group, awarded by the National Program against Family and Sexual Violence of the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations of Peru, for its project "Tecnoresistencias." Among its projects, Proyectosdeley.pe is a transparency tool that allows users to visualize all bills presented in the Peruvian Congress and search within them, with daily updating relative to the Congress page; it was presented in 2013 and works autonomously by web scraping the website of the Congress of the Republic of Peru.

Hiperderecho is a Peruvian non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to investigating, facilitating public understanding of, and promoting respect for rights and freedoms in digital environments. It has been active since 2012, when it began conducting research, activism campaigns and participating in public policy debates on technology in Peru. Its early work addressed issues such as reform of the computer crimes law, the public consultation on the liability of Internet intermediaries, opposition to the secrecy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, the law on protection of minors from pornographic content on the Internet, and reform of the Copyright Law. In 2013, Hiperderecho presented Proyectosdeley.pe, a transparency tool that allows users to visualize all bills presented in the Peruvian Congress and search within them, with daily updating relative to the Congress page. It works autonomously by web scraping the website of the Congress of the Republic of Peru. In 2014, the organization won the National Digital Democracy Award organized by Democracia & Desarrollo Internacional in the Civil Society category for developing this web application to access bills presented by the Peruvian parliament. Hiperderecho has also developed or collaborated on other civic technology projects. Perú Leaks is an independent citizen complaint and transparency platform at the service of Peruvian society to reveal information of public interest, developed by the Associated Whistleblowing Press in collaboration with seven media outlets such as La República, Ojo Público and Utero.pe; it works using encryption technology such as PGP and anonymous browsing such as the Tor network. Pidela.info is a web application for access to public information that allows anyone to send a legally valid Public Information Access Request over the Internet and archives and makes available to third parties the requests and responses previously received. In 2019, Hiperderecho obtained first place in the National Competition of Good Practices to confront Violence against Women and Members of the Family Group, awarded by the National Program against Family and Sexual Violence of the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations of Peru, for its project "Tecnoresistencias." The organization has collaborated on various campaigns with international organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy International, AccessNow.org and ONG Derechos Digitales. Hiperderecho describes itself as existing thanks to the work of a group of young lawyers, communicators, designers and geeks. Its funding base is diversified, with main sources of income from membership dues and from projects it executes, financed by international organizations and private companies. It states that its funders are not part of its board of directors and have no supervisory or decision-making power over its activities. Its board of directors has included Pedro Muñoz del Río (President), Miguel Sánchez Flores (Vice President) and Alejandra Alayza. Its team has included Dilmar Villena Fernández Baca as Executive Director, Elizabeth Mendoza Maldonado as Legal Coordinator (Litigation), Fiorella Ferrari as Activism Officer, Lorena Marks as Communications and Image Officer, and Lucía León Pacheco. The organization's work is divided between advocacy actions — such as public policy analysis, legal reform proposals and activism — and educational and training activities on digital rights for Peruvian students, activists and professionals. Its work areas are advocacy, activism and technology. In advocacy, it uses legal tools to defend Peruvians' rights in digital environments and actively seeks public-interest cases involving harm to a right in order to report them to authorities. In activism, it seeks to spread the liberating capacity of technology and to develop or strengthen digital spaces so that all Peruvians can exercise their rights and reinforce their citizenship. In technology, it develops web applications and systems that help Peruvians exercise their rights more easily and monitor what their authorities do. Hiperderecho remains active in regional and national digital policy conversations. It is involved in the IGF Perú, whose 2026 edition — the tenth, held in Arequipa on 15 and 16 October — addresses artificial intelligence, data protection, disinformation, digital security, connectivity, digital rights and state transformation. It also participated in CPDP LatAm 2026 in Rio de Janeiro on 12 and 13 August, contributing to panels on technology-facilitated gender violence in Latin America and electoral disinformation in Latin America.

• 2026

  Participates in CPDP LatAm 2026 in Rio de Janeiro and announces the 10th edition of IGF Perú in Arequipa.

• 2019

  Obtains first place in the National Competition of Good Practices for its project "Tecnoresistencias."

• 2016

  First edition of IGF Perú, a multi-stakeholder Internet governance dialogue space.

• 2014

  Wins the National Digital Democracy Award in the Civil Society category for Proyectosdeley.pe.

• 2013

  Proyectosdeley.pe is presented, a transparency tool for visualizing and searching bills in the Peruvian Congress.

• 2012

  Hiperderecho begins operations as a Peruvian non-profit organization dedicated to digital rights.

A Peruvian civil society organization positioning technology as a tool for freedom and the exercise of human rights, working through advocacy, activism and civic technology.

• Proyectosdeley.pe

  A transparency tool that allows users to visualize all bills presented in the Peruvian Congress and search within them, with daily updating relative to the Congress page; presented in 2013 and works autonomously by web scraping the Congress website.

• Perú Leaks

  An independent citizen complaint and transparency platform at the service of Peruvian society to reveal information of public interest, developed by the Associated Whistleblowing Press in collaboration with seven media outlets such as La República, Ojo Público and Utero.pe; works using encryption technology such as PGP and anonymous browsing such as the Tor network.

• Pidela.info

  A web application for access to public information that allows anyone to send a legally valid Public Information Access Request over the Internet and archives and makes available to third parties the requests and responses previously received.

• Tecnoresistencias

  A project that won first place in the 2019 National Competition of Good Practices to confront Violence against Women and Members of the Family Group.

• Reform of the computer crimes law
• Public consultation on the liability of Internet intermediaries
• Opposition to the secrecy of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
• Law on protection of minors from pornographic content on the Internet
• Reform of the Copyright Law

1. 1Libertades + Redes - Hiperderechohiperderecho.org
2. 2Equipo - Hiperderechohiperderecho.org
3. 3Prepárate para el IGF Perú 2026: la conversación sobre el futuro de Internet será en Arequipa - Hiperderechohiperderecho.org
4. 4¿Quién decide sobre nuestra vida digital? Soberanía, poder y privacidad desde la CPDP LatAm 2026 - Hiperderechohiperderecho.org
5. 5Hiperderechowikidata.org
6. 6Hiperderechoes.wikipedia.org