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Capturing Gender and Class Inequities: The CCTVisation of Delhi
- September 27, 2019
Ambika Tandon and Aayush Rathi generated empirical evidence about the CCTV programme well underway in Delhi. The case study was published by Centre for Development Informatics, Global Development Institute, SEED, in the Development Informatics working paper series housed at the University of Manchester.
Read more →Doing Standpoint Theory
- September 19, 2019
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.
Read more →Submission to Global Commission on Stability of Cyberspace on the definition of Cyber Stability
- September 11, 2019
"The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace released a public consultation process that sought to solicit comments and obtain feedback on the definition of “Stability of Cyberspace”, as developed by the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC).
Read more →Kashmir’s information vacuum
- September 02, 2019
Legislative backing is being appropriated to normalise communication shutdowns.
Read more →Future of Work in the ASEAN
- September 02, 2019
A literature review of the future of work in automotive manufacturing and IT services in the ASEAN region, authored by Aayush Rathi, Vedika Pareek, Divij Joshi, and Pranav M B.
Read more →Linking Aadhaar with social media or ending encryption is counterproductive
- August 28, 2019
Should Aadhaar be used as KYC for social media accounts? We have recently seen a debate on this question with even the courts hearing arguments in favour and against such a move.
Read more →A judicial overreach into matters of regulation
- August 28, 2019
A PIL on Aadhaar sheds light on some problematic trends
Read more →Rethinking the intermediary liability regime in India
- August 16, 2019
The article consolidates some of our broad thematic concerns with the draft amendments to the intermediary liability rules, published by MeitY last December.
Read more →Design and Uses of Digital Identities - Research Plan
- August 08, 2019
In our research project about uses and design of digital identity systems, we ask two core questions: a) What are appropriate uses of ID?, and b) How should we think about the technological design of ID? Towards the first research question, we have worked on first principles and will further develop definitions, legal tests and applications of these principles. Towards the second research question, we have first identified a set of existing and planned digital identity systems that represent a paradigm of how such a system can be envisioned and implemented, and will look to identify key design choices which are causing divergence in paradigm.
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