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Big Data and Reproductive Health in India: A Case Study of the Mother and Child Tracking System: by Ambika Tandon — published Oct 17, 2019 — last modified Dec 06, 2019 04:57 AM — filed under: Big Data, Data Systems, Researchers at Work, Reproductive and Child Health, Research, Featured, Publications, BD4D, Healthcare, Big Data for Development
In this case study undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development (BD4D) network, Ambika Tandon evaluates the Mother and Child Tracking System (MCTS) as data-driven initiative in reproductive health at the national level in India. The study also assesses the potential of MCTS to contribute towards the big data landscape on reproductive health in the country, as the Indian state’s imagination of health informatics moves towards big data.
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Big Data Governance Frameworks for 'Data Revolution for Sustainable Development': by Meera Manoj — published Jul 05, 2016 — last modified Jul 05, 2016 01:13 PM — filed under: Development, Big Data, Data Systems, Internet Governance, Big Data for Development, Sustainable Development Goals
A key component of the process to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals is the call for a global 'data revolution' to better understand, monitor, and implement development interventions. Recently there has been several international proposals to use big data, along with reconfigured national statistical systems, to operationalise this 'data revolution for sustainable development.' This analysis by Meera Manoj highlights the different models of collection, management, sharing, and governance of global development data that are being discussed.
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Brindaalakshmi.K - Gendering of Development Data in India: Beyond the Binary: by Brindaalakshmi.K — published Jun 30, 2020 — last modified Jun 30, 2020 10:26 AM — filed under: Welfare Governance, Data Systems, Big Data for Development, Research, Gender, Welfare, and Privacy, Transgender, Researchers at Work
This report by Brindaalakshmi.K seeks to understand the gendering of development data in India: collection of data and issuance of government (foundational and functional) identity documents to persons identifying outside the cis/binary genders of female and male, and the data misrepresentations, barriers to accessing public and private services, and informational exclusions that still remain. Sumandro Chattapadhyay edited the report and Puthiya Purayil Sneha offered additional editorial support. This work was undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development network supported by International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada.
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Call for Proposal: Big Data for Development – Initial Field Studies: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Apr 28, 2016 — last modified Apr 28, 2016 07:28 AM — filed under: Big Data, Data Systems, Big Data for Development, Research, Researchers at Work
The Centre for Internet and Society, as part of a project with the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield, is inviting calls from researchers to undertake a brief initial study of a specific instance of use of big data for development in India. This is an exercise to build preliminary understanding of the landscape of big data for development in India, identify key research questions and priorities, and start developing connections with researchers interested in the field. The studies will be 6 weeks long - running from May to June 2016 - and the researchers are expected to produce a 3,000 words long report. We will support three field studies.
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Can data ever know who we really are?: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published May 22, 2019 — last modified Dec 06, 2019 05:02 AM — filed under: Bodies of Evidence, Big Data, Data Systems, Researchers at Work, Research, Publications, BD4D, Big Data for Development
This is an excerpt from an essay by Zara Rahman, written for and published as part of the Bodies of Evidence collection of Deep Dives. The Bodies of Evidence collection, edited by Bishakha Datta and Richa Kaul Padte, is a collaboration between Point of View and the Centre for Internet and Society, undertaken as part of the Big Data for Development Network supported by International Development Research Centre, Canada.
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CFI-ACCION - Panel Discussion on 'Big Data: Challenge or Opportunity?' (Delhi, December 06): by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Dec 04, 2016 — last modified Mar 16, 2019 04:41 AM — filed under: Financial Technology, Big Data, Data Systems, Big Data for Development, Financial Inclusion, Researchers at Work
The Centre for Financial Inclusion of ACCION International is organising a panel discussion on "Big Data: Challenge or Opportunity?" as an associated event of the Inclusive Finance India Summit 2016, Hotel Ashok, Delhi, December 05-06. The discussion will be held at 12:30 on Tuesday, December 06. It will be moderated by Amy Jensen Mowl, CFI Fellow at IFMR, and M.S. Sriram, Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Development of Research in Banking Technology. Sumandro Chattapadhyay will participate as a panelist.
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CISxScholars Delhi - William F. Stafford (Nov 03, 6:30 pm): by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Nov 01, 2016 — last modified Mar 13, 2019 12:30 AM — filed under: CISxScholars, Data Systems, Digital Economy, Researchers at Work, Digital Labour, Network Economies, Homepage, Event
We are delighted to have William F. Stafford, PhD candidate in UC Berkeley, present on "Public Measurements, Private Measurements, and the Convergence of Units" at the CIS office in Delhi on Thursday, Nov 03, at 6:30 pm. Please RSVP if you are joining us: <[email protected]>.
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Data for Governance, Governance of Data, and Data Anxieties: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Jul 03, 2016 — last modified Jul 03, 2016 05:59 AM — filed under: Digital News, Geospatial Information Regulation Bill, UID, Data Systems, Digital Knowledge, Research, Aadhaar, Researchers at Work
The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) organised a panel discussion on 'The Data Explosion – How the Internet of Things will Affect Media Freedom and Communication Systems?' at Deutsche Welle's Global Media Forum 2016, held in Bonn, Germany during June 13-15, 2016. Sumandro Chattapadhyay was invited as one of the panelists.
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Data Infrastructures and Inequities: Why Does Reproductive Health Surveillance in India Need Our Urgent Attention?: by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon — published Feb 14, 2019 — last modified Dec 30, 2019 04:44 PM — filed under: Big Data, Data Systems, Privacy, Researchers at Work, Internet Governance, Research, BD4D, Healthcare, Surveillance, Big Data for Development
In order to bring out certain conceptual and procedural problems with health monitoring in the Indian context, this article by Aayush Rathi and Ambika Tandon posits health monitoring as surveillance and not merely as a “data problem.” Casting a critical feminist lens, the historicity of surveillance practices unveils the gendered power differentials wedded into taken-for-granted “benign” monitoring processes. The unpacking of the Mother and Child Tracking System and the National Health Stack reveals the neo-liberal aspirations of the Indian state.
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Exploring Big Data for Development: An Electricity Sector Case Study from India: by Sumandro Chattapadhyay — published Mar 29, 2017 — last modified Mar 16, 2019 04:33 AM — filed under: Big Data, Data Systems, Researchers at Work, Research, Featured, Publications, Big Data for Development
This working paper by Ritam Sengupta, Dr. Richard Heeks, Sumandro Chattapadhyay, and Dr. Christopher Foster draws from the field study undertaken by Ritam Sengupta, and is published by the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. The field study was commissioned by the CIS, with support from the University of Manchester and the University of Sheffield.
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