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International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2018: by Admin — published Dec 04, 2018 — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
The event was co-organized by Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Sama - A Resource Centre for Women and Health and was held at St. John's Medical College in Bangalore between December 3 and 5, 2018.
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Event Report on Intermediary Liability and Gender Based Violence: by Akriti Bopanna — published Dec 20, 2018 — last modified Dec 21, 2018 07:16 AM — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
This report is a summary of the proceedings of the Roundtable Conference organized by the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) at the Digital Citizen Summit, an annual summit organized by the Digital Empowerment Foundation. It was conducted at the India International Centre in New Delhi on November 1, 2018 from 11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
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Feminist Methodology in Technology Research: A Literature Review: by Ambika Tandon — published Dec 23, 2018 — last modified Dec 25, 2018 03:18 PM — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
This literature review has been authored by Ambika Tandon, with contributions from Mukta Joshi. Research assistance was provided by Kumarjeet Ray and Navya Sharma. The publication has been designed by Saumyaa Naidu.
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Re-Wiring Women's Rights Debates in the Digital Age: by Prasad Krishna — published Sep 19, 2014 — last modified Feb 12, 2015 05:07 PM — filed under: Gender, Video, Internet Governance, ICT
IT for Change in partnership with Kutch Mahila Vikas Sangathan and ANANDI organized this event on September 13 and 14, 2014. Rohini Lakshane participated as a speaker.
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Roundtable on India’s Gig-work Economy: by Noopur Raval, Anushree Gupta, Rajendra Jadhav, Sarah Zia, and Simiran Lalvani — published Feb 05, 2020 — last modified May 19, 2020 06:36 AM — filed under: Gender, Digital Labour, Research, Platform-Work, Future of Work, Network Economies, Researchers at Work, Mapping Digital Labour in India
Working in the gig-economy has been associated with economic vulnerabilities. However, there are also moral and affective vulnerabilities as workers find their worth measured everyday by their performance of—and at—work and in every interaction and movement. This roundtable discussion marks the end of our series on 'India’s Gig-work Economy' published by the Platypus blog of the Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC). In this discussion, the researchers reflect on methods, challenges, inter-subjectivities and possible future directions for research on the topic. Listen to the audio track below or read the transcript for the full discussion.
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Doing Standpoint Theory: by Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi — published Sep 01, 2019 — last modified Sep 19, 2019 02:22 PM — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
Feminist research methodology has evolved from different epistemologies, with several different schools of thought. Some of the more popular ones are feminist standpoint theory, feminist empiricism, and feminist relativism.
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Unbox Festival 2019: CIS organizes two Workshops: by Saumyaa Naidu — published Feb 17, 2019 — last modified Feb 26, 2019 01:53 AM — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance, Artificial Intelligence
Centre for Internet & Society organized two workshops at the Unbox Festival 2019, in Bangalore, on 15 and 17 February 2019.
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Imagine a Feminist Internet: Research, Practice and Policy in South Asia: by Admin — published Feb 27, 2019 — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
Internet Democracy Project and Point of View co-organized a two-day Imagine a Feminist Internet event in Sri Lanka on 22011 and 22 February 2019. Ambika Tandon was a speaker and presented a paper 'Framing Reproductive Health as a Data Problem? Unpacking ‘Dataveillance’ in India' which was co-authored by herself and Aayush Rathi.
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Presentation to Amnesty International on researching the Future of Work: by Admin — published Jul 21, 2019 — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance, Future of Work
Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon made a presentation to Amnesty International on July 18, 2019.
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Women's Safety? There is an App for That: by Rohini Lakshané — published May 19, 2016 — last modified Jan 10, 2017 02:48 AM — filed under: Gender, Internet Governance
“After locking ourselves in a room for more than 6 days, this is what we came out [sic] with. Join us in helping make WOMEN feel SAFE,” read a gloating press release about a smartphone app for women to notify their near ones that they were in distress. It was one among many such PRs frequently landing in my mailbox after the rape and murder of a young student on board a private bus in Delhi in 2012.
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