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Ida Holz

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Ida Holz
Born
Ida Holz Bard

(1935-01-30) 30 January 1935 (age 91)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Alma materUniversity of the Republic
OccupationsEngineer, computer scientist, professor, researcher
Spouse
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(m. 1964; died 2010)​
ChildrenArauco, Ayara
Awards

Ida Holz Bard (born 30 January 1935) is a Uruguayan engineer, computer scientist, professor, and researcher, known as a pioneer in the field of computing and the Internet.[1]

Early life and education

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Holz Bard was born on 30 January 1935, in the Palermo neighbourhood of Montevideo, to Galician Jewish immigrants Débora Bard and Isaac Holz.[2] Her mother came from an Orthodox family and settled in Uruguay in the late 1920s; her maternal grandparents and maternal uncles were rabbis. Her father died when she was four years old, while her mother was eight months pregnant with her brother.[3] Both of her parents had relatives who perished in the Holocaust.[4]

She attended public schools and, during her adolescence, was involved in several Jewish associations in Montevideo, including HaNoar HaTzioni. At the age of seventeen, she moved to Israel, where she lived on a kibbutz and completed her military service.[5] Four years later, she returned to Uruguay and began teacher training in mathematics at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas, later enrolling in a computing course at the University of the Republic.[6] She belonged to one of the first cohorts of computer science students in Uruguay.[7][8]

Career

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In 1976, during the civic-military dictatorship in Uruguay, she went into exile in Mexico with her husband and children. There, she worked at the Mexican General Directorate of Economic and Social Policy and later at the country's National Institute of Statistics. The Mexican government offered her its directorship, but she had already decided to return to Uruguay.[9]

In 1986, she was appointed director of the Central Information Service (SECIU) of the University of the Republic, following a competitive selection process.[10] In this role, she led the development of the Internet in Uruguay beginning in the early 1990s.[11] Under her direction, in 1994 installed the first Internet node in the country.[12] She subsequently contributed to the development and consolidation of information and communications technology in the country. Since 2005 she has worked in the directorate of the Agency for Development of Electronic Government and Society of Information and Knowledge [es]. She was also one of the promoters of the Ceibal project.

Holz is recognized for having opposed a conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1991, at which the United States and Europe imposed their authorities at the Latin American level on the nascent global network.[9]

Personal life

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In 1964 she married the artist Anhelo Hernández, dedicated to contemporary painting, and who joined the Torres García Workshop.[13]

Awards and honors

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Ida Holz received the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award, granted by the Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre (LACNIC) to people who have contributed to the permanent development of the Internet.[14]

In 2013 she was the first Latin American personality (male or female) to enter the Internet Society's Hall of Fame, an initiative that honors people who have been important to the development and strengthening of the Internet.[15][16][17]

The Board of Initial and Primary Education [es] awarded her its 2014 Girdle of Honor at public school No. 4 José Artigas, where the engineer completed her primary studies.[18]

The National Postal Administration issued stamps in 2015 of the series "Outstanding Personalities of Uruguay" dedicated to Ida Holz.[19]

In 2017, Holz received a recognition in honor of her career as an Internet pioneer in Uruguay, in the framework of the Ceibal project's tenth anniversary celebration.[20]

One of the so-called "fathers of the Internet", Vint Cerf, when asked if there was a "mother of the Internet", responded:

Yes, there is a mother of the Internet, and her name is Ida Holz.[21]

References

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  1. ↑ "La uruguaya Ida Holz ya está en el Salón de la Fama de Internet" [Uruguayan Ida Holz is in the Internet Hall of Fame]. El País (in Spanish). 6 August 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2017 – via Uruguay Natural.
  2. ↑ de Tomas, Tania (23 May 2013). "Ida Holz: alma tecnológica" [Ida Holz: Technological Soul]. El Observador (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Ida Holz Bard (Montevideo, 1935)" (PDF). Historias Universitarias. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 February 2026. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  4. ↑ Press, U. Y. "Conversando con la pionera de internet en Uruguay Ida Holz". UY Press (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  5. ↑ "Ida Holz la "madre de internet" - Carmelo Portal" (in Spanish). 20 February 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  6. ↑ "Ida Holz, una pionera enamorada de los proyectos | Facultad de Psicologia". psico.edu.uy. Archived from the original on 11 April 2026. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  7. ↑ Redacción. "50 mujeres uruguayas influyentes". El Observador (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  8. ↑ "La primera latinoamerica en el Salón de la Fama de internet" [The First Latin American in the Internet Hall of Fame] (in Spanish). BBC. 22 August 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  9. 1 2 Rossello, Renzo (9 September 2013). "Ida Holz y el sueño del hospital virtual" [Ida Holz and the Dream of the Virtual Hospital]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 March 2019. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "Ida Holz | Internet Hall of Fame". www.internethalloffame.org. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
  11. ↑ Urwicz, Tomer (7 May 2017). ""Uruguay está lejos del mundo: llega todo tarde"". EL PAIS. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  12. ↑ "Ida Holz Bard" (in Spanish). Frida. Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  13. ↑ "Anhelo Hernández". Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  14. ↑ "Resultado 'Premio Trayectoria 2009'" ['2009 Career Award' Result] (in Spanish). LACNIC. 3 August 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  15. ↑ "Ida Holz en el Salón de la Fama de Internet" [Ida Holz in the Internet Hall of Fame]. Cromo (in Spanish). 26 June 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  16. ↑ "Internet Hall of Fame Announces 2013 Inductees!". Internet Society. 26 June 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  17. ↑ "Ida Holz, primera latinoamericana nominada para integrar Salón de la Fama de Internet" [Ida Holz, First Latin American Nominated For Induction Into the Internet Hall of Fame] (in Spanish). University of the Republic. 26 June 2013. Archived from the original on 7 September 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  18. ↑ "Hizo escuela: Ida Holz recibió la 'moña de honor'" [Ida Holz Receives the 'Girdle of Honor'] (in Spanish). AGESIC. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  19. ↑ "Correo uruguayo presentó sellos en homenaje a personalidades uruguayas" [Uruguayan Post Presents Stamps in Honor of Uruguayan Personalities] (in Spanish). Montevideo Portal. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  20. ↑ "Se hace camino al pensar: Ida Holz homenajeada en 10 años de Ceibal" [Way of Thinking: Ida Holz Honored at Ceibal's Tenth Anniversary] (in Spanish). AGESIC. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  21. ↑ Molina, Paula (24 December 2015). "El hombre que encendió el fuego" [The Man Who Started the Fire]. Qué Pasa (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 23 February 2022. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
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