Abel Pires da Silva (né Seran Toza Lialuli; born 24 May 1976) is an East Timorese computer scientist and politician.

[2] Silva continued his education in Diponegoro University in Semarang with scholarship from the then Provincial Government of Timor-Timur, where he earned a BA in Engineering.

In early 1997 at the age of 20 years old, he was entrusted by his fellow sworn members (membro jurados) to take the responsibility as their Vice-Responsável Principal to lead RENETIL's branch in Semarang city until Timor-Leste restored its formal independence in 2002, following the referendum in 1999.

ICT for Development and Self-serving International Agencies: No Free-lunch Even in a Shattered Tropical Paradise, the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Cancun-Mexico, 2019.

Significance of 'Contexts' in ICTD Projects: Alignment and Misalignment of Stakeholders' Interests, the 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Koloa-Hawaii, 2016.

Sustainability of ICTD Projects and Its Influencing Factors: A Comprehensive Literature Review, the 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Koloa-Hawaii, 2016.

[2] From April 2008 to June 2009, Silva served as an information and communication technology advisor for the East Timorese Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

[13] Silva ran for the People's Liberation Party (PLP) on the seventh list in the 2017 East Timorese parliamentary election, winning a seat in the country's national parliament.

[15] He was ranked number 40 on the Aliança para Mudança e Progresso (AMP), a list that the PLP, CNRT, and KHUNTO jointly put together,[16] however he was unable to get a seat in the 2018 East Timorese parliamentary election.

[18][19] Silva failed to recover position 31 on the PLP list in the 2023 East Timorese parliamentary election since the party only garnered four MPs.