Sally Burch

Sally Burch (born 1949) is a British-Ecuadorian journalist and communication rights activist, executive director of the and a member of the coordinating group of the Internet Social Forum.

Life

Burch was born in 1949 in London. She has a degree in literature from the University of Warwick Between 1990 and 1993 she was responsible for the creation of the Ecuadorian network "Ecuanex", a non-profit electronic communication corporation that in 1990 constituted a network aimed at disseminating access to new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to increase Ecuador's development.

Between 2002 and 2003, she directed the "Working Group on Contents and Themes" of the World Summit on the Information Society that took place in Geneva and from 2001 to 2003, she was Coordinator of the Civil Society Working Group on Contents and Themes of the World Summit on the Information Society, organized by the United Nations.

Burch has written concerning media corporations and championing the right of citizens to information and to communication and on the citizens' internet. and in September 2017 she led the Dialogues for a Citizens' Internet NuestrAmérica towards the Internet Social Forum, held in Quito.

Deportation from Argentina

On 8 December 2017, Burch traveled to Argentina to cover the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and other forums in Buenos Aires as the executive director of the Latin American Information Agency. and she was deported back to Ecuador where she lives. The head of Attac Norway, Petter Titland was also deported to Brazil on the grounds that his actions would also be disruptive.

The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry issued a statement in which it "regrets the decision of the Argentine immigration authorities to deport the Anglo-Ecuadorian citizen Sally Burch, executive director of the Latin American Information Agency."